The Malabar Rampage Gearing Up for The Start – and Puts the Race Into Racy

The inaugural Malabar Rampage is a little over a month away from starting, and looks set to exceed even the notorious Rickshaw Challenge series in terms of sheer vehicular craziness. The Osmond’s 1972 hit Crazy Horses could well have been about the seven horsepower that the noble three wheeled auto-rickshaws produce: modest enough, but the power behind the most exciting, memorable, and plain outrageous exploits the rallying world has ever seen across thousands of miles of stunning Indian countryside.

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Chennai, India (PRWeb UK) March 6, 2010

The Malabar Rampage is the latest route in the Rickshaw Challenge series, stretching a gruelling 2000 kilometres (roughly 1200 miles) through the majesty and the mystery of southern India’s Dravidian states. Now in its 5th year, the Rickshaw Challenge series has become synonymous with the spirit of adventure and its completely novel take on how to ‘win’ and become ‘The King of the Rickshawallas’.

The Malabar Rampage is not an event for unthinking petrolheads or speed freaks - the fun loving, madcap ethos behind the Rampage has attracted teams of adventurers from around the world. Discouraging speed or point-to-point racing, the Malabar Rampage will have a point system based on completing weird and wonderful challenges, feats of daring and imagination, and helping underprivileged schools and villages along the way.

To make sure the inaugural Malabar Rampage kicks off in true style, and likely goes down in history, the competitors this summer will face a challenge never before attempted : to build the world’s first amphibious rickshaw and pilot it across a river. ‘Is the world ready for amphibious rickshaw?’ is a good question. ‘Does the world have any use for amphibious rickshaw?’ might be ever better – but what is for sure is that the imagination and the guile of the Rampage teams will produce vehicles the likes of which have never been seen.

Some of the tests facing the teams will be old favourites from prior Rickshaw Challenges – such as testing the skills of the drivers at reversing vehicles that are barely made to go forward in the first place, drag racing against sacred cows, and decorating their rickshaws in the most outrageously pimp fashion possible. Ever seen a giant mouse with a two-stroke engine weave between potholes through the most stunning countryside known to man? The participants of the Rickshaw Challenge have, and when the Malabar rampage kicks off on April 2nd we will doubtless see a whole new level of crazy. Places are open for teams to register to participate, and as the Rickshaw Challenge series has already contributed more that €50,000 directly to deprived local schools there are still chances to become part of this astounding adventure with a humanitarian conscience.

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Rickshaw Challenge Visits Schools

Everything about the Rickshaw Challenge brings to mind complete insanity. However, we are not just about fun and adventure; we believe firmly in participating in, not simply passing through, the lives of the people we meet in villages and cities along the route. For this reason, the Rickshaw Challenge has teamed up with Round Table India, a national organization that oversees charitable needs, donations, and projects.


Malabar Rampage Route

The Rickshaw challenge MALABAR RAMPAGE- 2010 will follow an extensive route deep into the heart of South India, exploring the Dravidian states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala. An extraordinary 15-stage course that will take you over 2000 kilometers (roughly 1200 miles) through some of the most exotic and scenic places imaginable, from bustling metropolises to incredible beaches, an epic course that will inspire and challenge anybody.


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Malabar rampage : Come experience the culture, colors, cuisine, and character that can only be found in South India. From the vast and colorful temples to the glistening beaches of the Hawaii-like Kerala coast, this is an experience that you won’t ever forget.