MCN  |  23rd August 2017
EIGHT-BIKE MEGA TEST: LEGENDS OF ADVENTURE
Original Dakar replicas versus the adventure bikes they inspired. Harry Metcalfe is a Dakar expert. “Everyone thinks Dakar is about small trail bikes, but this isn’t accurate,” he says. “It may have started this way, which is why the Yamaha XT500 was successful in the early years, but the race soon developed into a challenge over wide open desert and that meant hard rock with lots of flat-out nothingness and for that you needed a fast bike.” Actually, Harry is a Dakar nut. So much so that he has spent years searching out the original Dakar replica road bikes that owe their existence to the torturous race. He knows all too well, that behind every great adventure bike is a Dakar legend. In this issue we meet the ancestors.
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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in MCN 23rd August 2017.