Dakar 1984

Eight years after making a return to the worlds toughest motorsport event, Honda has returned to the winners podium....

Andrea Mayer (Ex BMW works driver and multiple winner of the women's classification at the Dakar Rally) with her husband - Stephane Peterhansel - Monsieur Dakar in the trophy room with the motorcycles...

The Desert? For a bergamot accustomed to mountains like me it is still wonderful; I like to run there, I like African slopes. i like raids because they're a school of life, a way of feeling free". Yet...

One day left, and even machines are exhausted and break in two... Luckily no consequences for the pilot...Fran Gomez Pallás, who runs in the Dakar Future Mission 1000 category. His Bat Power Racing el...

Elspeth Beard in 1984, shortly after becoming the first English woman to circumnavigate the world by motorcycle...

1984 NSR500 Honda didn’t always get it right…..just ask Freddie Spencer who was asked to ride this monster in 1984. Not only did Honda add an extra cylinder to the 1983 NS500, they turned the whole t...

Love the lights...Dakar Rally in 2007 that a team called Team Green Dakar out of the Netherlands. The brave riders names were: Peter Oosterbeek, Nol Bikker, and Michael van den Enden....

Paulo Gonçalves, racing on motorbike no. 8, has passed away from a fall sustained 276 kilometres into today's special. The organisers received an alert at 10:08 and dispatched a medical helicopter...

The Ducati twin-cylinder was pretty much the same as the previous season, that is, the tried-and-tested 90-degree V-cylinder, 904 cc cam mast on the head, and two valves for the demodrobic-controll...

Old bikes will never lose their classic attire... just because they simply can't lose it....

There’s not much you can do to improve on a brand-new, in-the-crate 1984 Bimota SB4, but deciding whether to keep it in the crate or take it out and experience the myriad delights available with th...

First released in 2021, the KTM 890 Adventure is a high-performance mid-sized adventure bike that offered a decent bump in power over its 790 predecessor. And despite being a fairly new design, the...

Chester KTM has released a very limited edition KTM 890 Adventure that harks back to the golden era of the Dakar Rally.The unique livery has been designed with Manchester based graphic speci...

The CRF450 RALLY thunders across Dakar Rally routes at an astounding average speed. It looks similar the the CRF250 RALLY seen on the streets of Japan, but is a completely different beast....

Born in 1974 and morphing into the monster that won the Paris-Dakar race in 1979 and 1980, Yamaha’s beloved adventure bike has won the hearts of many, with the brand’s ressurection of the Ténéré le...

The 2023 edition of the Dakar Rally has been concluded and KTM emerges as the victorious team after 15 days in the desert....