Sorry for the pun Steve, but it pains me to hear you so. Or are you contemplating poking Silver Bear?
The bloody virus. And the variant now circulating.
Part of a new "ADV:Overland" show at the Petersen Museum in LA: "The first Peking to Paris rally began in June 1907, and was immediately canceled. Only five of the 40 entered teams arrived in Peking, but they drove the route regardless, following a telegraph line through China, Mongolia, and Russia. Four cars finished, but the sole trike – a Contal Mototri - was abandoned in the Gobi desert. Driver Auguste Pons and journalist Oscar Foucauld were lucky to walk out alive.
110 years later, Anton Gonnisen was inspired to duplicate Pons’ doomed ride by entering a Contal in the 2019 Peking to Paris rally. Finding a 1906 Contal proved impossible, so Anton made an accurate copy, with a stronger engine and wheels.