El Solitario - Only Outlaws Will Be Free

The secret of a genius is to carry the spirit
of the child into old age, which means never
losing your enthusiasm.

– ONLY DEAD FISH GO WITH THE FLOW –

“El Solitario is a Gesamtkunstwerk – a total work of art, in which the riders, their gear, their machines, their backup, the photography, and the film made of their adventures, are shaped to one vision.”

Paul D’Orleans,  Cycle World

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Any great connoisseur of the G Wagen and the Mercedes-Benz brand must be frustrated with the path the german auto maker took already a long time ago. More interested in the status symbol of their cars, than what they should be designed for, their north star has long been gone and they seem lost in an uncertain future for privately owned mobility. For someone like us, who used our cars to explore the unexplored, it’s more than just a pose. It’s all about capability, freedom, and pushing boundaries. When brands focus on nouveau riche customers, they diminish the essence of what makes vehicles like the G-Class special to those who revered them for genuine purpose, not just as ostentatious luxury fashion statements. Since the begining of the end.
My name is Nicholas Coleman, I’m from what used to be the small town of Provo, Utah. Named for the French-Canadian fur trapper Etienne Provost, who wandered into what has become Utah Valley. My father Michael Coleman is an artist as well as myself. I was his little shadow wherever he went. Fishing, hunting, trapping and to a dozen or more of the world's best art museums.