"FINKE RIVER DESERT RACE 1986" [FROM 'ROOHUNTS' ON POOTUBE] . . . . FROM THE DEAD CENTRE OF THIS WIDE, BROWN LAND . . . . THE LAST OF THE TWO STROKE INTERCEPTORS . . . . AUSSIE'S GREATEST ENDURO RACE FOR BIKES, FEATURING THE DIRT TRACK DYNAMO STEPHEN GALL AND ALSO JIM ELLIS AND PHIL LOVETT . . . CONTINUING THE INTERNATIONAL BUSH BASHING THEME.

THE FINKE RIVER, THOUGHT TO BE GEOLOGICALLY, THE OLDEST WATERCOURSE IN AUSTRALIA, IS SLAP BANG IN THE EPICENTRE OF THE COUNTRY, NOT FAR FROM THE TOWN OF ALICE SPRINGS, LITERALLY THE 'RED CENTRE' . . . . THE RACE BEGAN IN ABOUT THE MIDDISH SEVENTIES AND IS YET ANOTHER EPIC DESERT AND DUST HIGH SPEED THRASH FOR THE TWO WHEELED LOONIES WHO LIKE PUTTIN THEIR BALLS ON THE LINE IN THE PURSUIT OF DRY DIRT DEVOURING GLORY.

The footage captured from 'helivision' here focuses on Aussie motocross superstar of the eighties, Stephen Gall and two other hell for leather racers in Jim Ellis and Phil Lovett at the zenith of the monster two stroke screamers . . . . just prior to the four stroke thumpers taking over, despite the old Yamaha TT500's eminent suitability for the event over ten years previous, again, it's basically twist the throttle wide open and go hard for 250 klms, turn around and repeat . . . . usual shit of imminent death at all points along the way with soft sand, bulldust, snakes, logs, boulders and massive heat combining with flat out, on the gas riding . . . . fucking hard, dirty, dusty yakka for sure !!!!