The story begins: In the Slipstream of the Giants of the Road

I’d been contemplating the travel, the adventure, the challenge for some time, but always with the inevitable hurdles and obstacles to prevent me taking the travels, the adventures, the challenges from the pages of others on my bookshelf to my road, my doing. 

But then it clicked; circumstance, good timing and an idea; all conspired with me, rather than against me.  As I boarded the plane to Dubai for the biannual Roadsters Coast to Coast 220km ride, the idea came to me...