SOMERSET TO MONACO Arkonik & b500 on tour Words & images by Del Gregory
Setting off from Arkonik HQ
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left my home in the Cotswolds at 5.45am to rendezvous with Tom and UJO at the Somerset HQ of Arkonik, arriving at 6.45am just as Tom was loading his bags and even his bike into the load bay of UJO.
UJO is essentially Arkonik’s flagship Defender 110, complete with a 6.2L V8 LS3, and was to be our flag bearer for our 2,500 mile round trip to Monaco. Leaving the leafy lanes of Mells in Somerset we headed out towards
Folkestone in Kent where we were to catch our EuroTunnel train across to Calais. As ‘Tour Manager’, It had become my role to not only share the drive, but to also ensure all boxes on this epic trip were ticked, which included myriad of Covid-19 paperwork,
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