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Australian Desert Forges New Rider - Benji Brundin

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4.9960 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2021

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

A few years ago Benji Brundin went through some major life changes, including losing his dream career and his wife, and decided that the best course of action was to break from conventional life. So, leaving his past behind, challenging his fears and...

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0:00.0

Well, he wasn't sure what wasn't right with his life.

0:04.3

I mean, he had it all, really. He had a job, he had a wife, a house, a dog,

0:09.2

yet Benji Brundon still felt something was missing.

0:14.0

But it was only after what could easily be described, I think, as living a country and western song.

0:21.0

He found himself without a job, his wife filed for divorce, she even took the dog.

0:27.0

Sadly, his father died not long afterwards, and it was then that Benji decided that his life needed a change, a major change and he felt it should be about adventures.

0:41.0

Something he always loved and he wanted to chase this down.

0:44.0

And it was a path to adventure that led him eventually to a motorcycle through a poste bike first

0:50.5

and then on to a W.R. 250 and that led him into the desert, into some of the most difficult

0:56.6

riding conditions for motorcyclists, sand.

1:00.8

With a bike overloaded with fuel, water, gear, he literally learned to ride by falling, getting up and trying again.

1:10.0

And as he rode unskilled into the desert, he mounted his biggest challenge.

1:15.5

And the incredible part is about this is that he made it.

1:19.0

In fact, he not only made it, he loved the experience. Somehow under that hot sun with the endless dunes in the sand, the

1:27.6

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