Reliants to Russia and other Extreme Trifles

I just came across the rather amusing Reliants To Russia story on the Extreme Trifles website. It's a good read. Basically the Extreme Trifles are a bunch of utter nutters who combine travel, insanity and motorised mayhem. In this instance they took a bunch of three-wheeled Reliant Robins and drove from London to Jurmala (Latvia), via France, the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Finland and... well, not all of them got into Russia. There's a hint at the end of the story that there may be some souvenirs of the journey in the Jurmala Motor Museum.

Note that one of the requirements of participation was that the vehicles be 'pimped' to look like some kind of famous vehicle from television. (There was Thunderbird 4, The De Lorean, and General Lee, for example). A general lack of reliability, of the sort that would require impromptu repairs using beer cans, was also highly regarded.

Future Extreme Trifles will include an attempt "break [the] sound (of music) barrier at Nurburgring". That will be happening on Honda C90s--known to Australians as postie bikes, and to everyone else as crappy but somehow indestructible--in July.

Found it via Gadling. Pic from the Extreme Trifles website.