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Watch This Moto Traveler Ride His EV Motorcycle In The Sahara Desert, Eat Sand

One important thing to know about sand, if you've never spent much time in it, is that it gets absolutely everywhere. Your teeth. Your eyelashes. Your hair. All your crevices, inside your shoes, up your nose; you name it. If there is any kind of opening, no matter how minute, those tiny little granules will do a Dr. Ian Malcolm and find a way.

Energica Experia rider Marc Travels is in and around the Morocco area in this video, handling the changing charging conditions for both his bike and himself, as Ramadan had just ended prior to him shooting this video. For those unfamiliar, the holy period of Ramadan involves fasting each day from sunrise to sunset, so observers typically only eat and drink before sunrise and after sunset each day. If you're a traveler who doesn't observe this custom, that can make it more challenging to find food in the middle of the day. 

As of the start of this video, though, that period has ended, and so Marc is able to find a sandwich to enjoy while he's out and about. That's good, because the massive headwinds combined with the surrounding desert are making travel on the Experia very difficult. Headwinds drive EV range capability straight into the basement, even on a relatively capacious range-having motorcycle like the Experia.

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