Motorcyclists, the modern Don Quixote?

Photos: Oscar Carrascosa/Red Bull Photofiles

These pictures, created to promote the Red Bull Don Quixote 2 enduro race in Spain, raise an interesting question. Clad in suits of armor that appear comical to other people, obsessed with an unfulfillable, overly romanticized quest for speed and motivated by adventure, are motorcyclists a modern day Don Quixote?  >

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