The US Takes it Home!!

Back in Milan, Italy now - our team won the 1st ever GS Tunisia Trophy event! Many hours of flights are going to begin soon, so updates will follow ...

From left to right:

Ryan, Beppe (event organizer), myself, Jimmy, Brad, Jim, Jason.

Some race fans and I right after completing the event.

"Before" team pic.

Tunisia tomorrow!

Landed in Milan yesterday - still quite unclear as to the format of this event, but there will be a brief meeting later tonight, and then the actual "big" meeting will occur once we're sitting on a boat headed to Tunisia. The mystery is part of what makes this interesting...

Drove this around for a few days prior to the rally:

On roads like this:

Support vehicles are getting ready, other teams are showing up.

My bike is prepped & ready:

Tomorrow we ride to Genova & catch a boat from there.

INTERMOT!

A truly massive motorcycle show ... impossible to absorb in a mere two days.

I saw the bike I'll be riding in Tunisia:

The BMW F800!

Was out in Utah and Colorado photographing the BMW F800 for the past several days. Pretty amazing machine ... writeups will be coming from several journalists in the near future ...

Slideshow gallery here: http://jonbeckphotography.com/events/2008_bmw_f800intro