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Takashi URASHIMA, aka @ein883, is a fire truck driver who draws illustrations in his spare time. He started making illustrations from photos he took at motorcycle events thinking that illustrations could easily overcome language barriers and share the fun. He was not wrong. This Japanese artist has been drawing El Solitario for years through his original vision, so we decided to ask him a few questions for this article.

"There's one date of the year that I can't afford to miss, and that's in June, around the Summer Solstice, a symbol that's very dear to me, because it represents renewal, my renewal.Our Spanish friends have understood this, and without really organizing things, they know perfectly well how to unite us around San Juan. One message is all it takes, and we all arrive from the four corners of the globe, ready for a new adventure. As one of us said, the road is OK, but the track is much more exciting, and I finally understood this on our last crossing of the Iberian Peninsula. Having spent forty years exclusively on the road, I discovered the immense pleasure of enduro riding. Being inside the landscape is very different from watching it go by behind the visor, whatever the bike.

The last El Solitario OUTLAWS was a story about long lasting friendships. Paying tribute to the freedom of each individual who took part in this, we decided to give a disposable camera to each of them. The result? A scrapbook more authentic than ever. The beauty of a photograph is the personification of the eye that was looking at the precise instant of the shot.

Although with scant regard for the banality of much in popular culture, El Solitario`s approach to music isn’t rooted in intellectual superiority but leaves a door ajar into a psychedelic, esoteric, sometimes challenging world. Making us junkies for new soundscapes. Our musical inclinations are often the result of a near-mythological desire for complete independence, better-ly (does this word even exist?) defined by the roads we chose not to take than the mountains we repeatedly conquered.

Unlike the Dakar, which has evolved into a loop rally with zero geographical interest, the Morocco Desert Challenge offers a “coast to coast” adventure. In eight stages the participants cross a maximum part of Morocco, along the Algerian border, as far away as possible from the tourist zones. The participants therefore do not sleep in hotels, but in beautiful, self-built desert bivouacs.

Good motorcycle events are almost extinct these days, and if you find one, every glittering ounce of them should be cherished and hoarded and worshipped and fondled like a priceless diamond. Last weekend, England´s Grimsthorpe Castle witnessed the celebration of the Malle Mile (One of the last surviving ones!) and the revival of ESMC´s ludicrous race "La Copita”.

In the common law of England, a "Writ of Outlawry" made the pronouncement Caput lupinum - "Let his be a wolf's head” - with respect to its subject, equating that person with a wolf in the eyes of the law. The Outlaw was deprived of all legal rights, allowing others to kill him on sight, as if he was such a wild creature.

Next Full Moon we will launch one of the wildest endeavors of the Wolf family. A dream that has taken years to become a reality. El Solitario Outlaw Whisky Collection (E.S.O.W.C.), will soon have a place of its own in our ecosystem, and we are ecstatic to finally be able to get closer to all of you, bringing to your door the true spirit of El Solitario. What is more intimate than sharing a good bottle of liquid gold around the fire?E.S.O.W.C. will strive to find the most authentic distilleries around the world and bring to light those whiskys that personify the ethos of El Solitario. We will bottle in limited editions, those spirits that for any given practicalities or any other obscure reason, never saw the light, although reveal an exceptional taste and ‘garra’.Stay tuned.

What unites Sebago and El Solitario MC is a clear focus on exceptional quality and meticulous attention to detail. Two seemingly opposing worlds, driven by a common desire to harness their outstanding craftsmanship to make their visions a reality.