@christineburns anyone liking the Itchy Boots spirit but not the petrol motorbike part might like to check out https://www.thesuntrip.com/en/le-concept/ it's a long-long haul recurring "race" for solar-power-assisted electrical micro-mobiles. All sorts of weird vehicles and everyone from top manufacturer teams [who get far less attention than in mainstream events] ... though small-business innovators to elderly, self-supporting people, male and female, who get lots of love and local mechanic help from village blacksmiths in the middle of Mongolia etc., as in this video narrative I recommend from 2018 https://www.thesuntrip.com/en/courses/the-sun-trip-2018/