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Bollocks

Due to the INCREDIBLY poor planning and naivety of the Adventurists about South American politics, we´re now being told it´s entirely possible we may not have our mototaxis until Tuesday. This would be nine days beyond the original start.



A few teams took off but apparently two have already returned. Again due to poor planning, one team had problems with their mototaxi not being built properly and effectively dying an hour outside of town, while another crashed a few blocks away from the launch because the brakes were not properly set up on the recently assembled bike.



This has turned into chaos and perhaps quite a bit more personal risk than originally intended as well as a massive inconvenience. We´re looking at other options but at this point I expect to be out a couple grand more than expected as well as needing to take an additional two weeks off work and risk being asked to leave early... or I could give up and lose the three to four grand I´ve already invested in this.



Quite unimpressed with the Adventurists.

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