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Sunday, 20 April 2008
he day dawns on Chambon-sur-Lignon (F). The stool motorcycles are frosted, like Marc cerebellum, which makes us up at six o'clock in the mat. Is not to miss the start of the hiking Thousand Rivers, a three-day trip that will lead us down the Massif Central in the Cevennes.
 Christian departs on a magnificent bridge that Marc fun to pass without its front wheel hits the ground.
 
The first kilometers will run on frozen ground, in a sublime landscape of pastures benches covered with mist. These tables permanent open Raphy of appetite, which leaves her bag chops and sausage at the first break. To reheat, Tassinet draws hundreds of commas on the floor with the rear wheel of his FIU. But the former crossman lack of will file the ground 50 metres from the pub, surprised by a shirking his backyard train on the cold asphalt.
 
RiverThe first official meal provides an insight into what will be the menus for three days: meats, sausages, ham, potatoes and cheese and rocco that stain. The Thousand Rivers could also be called the Hundred Thousand Calories. Fortunately, the roads in the afternoon are rolling. For entertainment, Reply goes down with a precision Swiss all in a stream of twenty inches wide. Nearly four hours after the bikers, the two quadeurs Olivier Thierry and join the end of the stage. Despite their efforts (Olivier has experienced an ineffective barrel by the front), they remained blocked throughout the day behind the 4x4.
 

The second day begins with a climb hairy, which is sweating bodies. But Marc is always attentive to the welfare of its guests and tempering Reply to the bone in the excess in wheeling in a big puddle. Both (former) friends settle their disputes with a mountain of gas on a road gravillonneuse. Asked slipping through and the XR Katoche and eventually tie.

After a new dietetic meals, everyone borrows bitumen to cross the Cevennes National Park. The trees give way to chestnut, while hiking turns into a road rally under the leadership of Marc, still terrified at the idea of wasting time. Consequently, we agree with the list to 15 hours, which gives us about five hours before dinner: just enough retendre chains and to fill up on gas.

The Thousand Rivers being an itinerant hiking, Lucas Dougoud took charge of repatriating buses every day by making trips into Monnier 3RD 250. After 300 km of local roads, the poor little poum-poum tangle valves. A meeting of mechanical night will however our conveyor to our company's first all-terrain meters at the bend of the third and final day.

After four years on a sailboat around the world, our man is not one to be impressed by the warnings of some two-wheeled walkers. From the first meters, it essore generously therefore the right handle of the 3T and darkens in the leaves properly seated at the front of the seat. Under the helmets, on regale already, and what should happen happens: Lucas rate a bend, jumped the wall and landed in a delicacy in a pile of branches.

Not even evil. A few hundred yards later, a big climb vicious goes prematurely ending his career as a enduriste. Obliged to climb on foot, the sailor got evil sea and chose to go by road. Once the biggest challenges of the hike passed, the path crosses an old railway line, where each tunnel allows testing lights and horns. After a last meal Weight watchers and a few kilometers of roads, it is time to reload motorcycles and return to Switzerland. The display counters 430 km, except for Mark because his front wheel often did not touch the ground.
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