TRIUMPH STREET SCRAMBLER VS DUCATI DESERT SLED
Triumph and Ducati have both launched ‘Scramblers’ to much success – yet both are very different propositions
DAKAR ’87 – THE ULTIMATE DUEL?
story by Chris Evans To be a hero you need two essential ingredients: the opportunity to be heroic, and lots of witnesses (the more the merrier). With the whole of France in the grip of Paris-Dakar fever and two very different Frenchmen fighting it out for victory, the 1987 Dakar Rally was all set for […]
DAKAR YAMAHA XT500
The Dakar Rally is celebrating its 40th edition in 2018. So we’ve rolled back the years to the very first, to see where – and on what – it all began. B ack in the late 1970s the desert rallying scene was in its infancy, and it was then a very French thing. For the […]
