But all was fixed eventually and the journey continued.Īround The World With Motorcycle And CameraĪround the World with Motorcycle and Camera And then found that local mechanics had metric tools, while the Panther was done in Whitworth sizes. Unfortunately, the extreme heat and deep sand caused the engine to fail, and they ended up in Agades, waiting for more than a month for spare parts to come from England. Theirs may well have been the first motorcycle crossing of the Sahara Desert, taking the relatively well-traveled Tamanrasset Route. In December of 1934, Wallach and a friend left London, headed for South Africa, riding a Panther M100 motorcycle with a Watsonian sidecar and trailer.
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