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ABR Festival 2024
This event just keeps getting bigger and better. For 2024 there were 17,500 attendees. Motorcycle manufacturers managed 10,000 test rides on the latest adventure bikes. We were delighted to have been invited again to host the daily trail briefings, giving riders essential tips and hints as to how to safely ride the trails.
In addition to our fleet of Beta enduro bikes used in our off road riding academy we had a selection of the new electic bikes with the eBike Xperience team on hand to show people how capable these machines are.
Our Desert Rose Racing Team were on hand to talk about all things rallye, from Africa Eco Race and Morocco Desert Challenge, to raids and adventure tours in Greece and the Balkans.
With our new partnership with Alpinestars for their off road air vest we spent plenty of time with the live demo rig, showing riders how this amazing tech works and importantly how it feels to have an air vest deploy.
- Paul King
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