dunes Articles
Photos: an R1 in the sand dunes
How’s this for a magazine cover? With the help of Yamaha Europe and Michelin, French mag L’Integral equipped 10-time Dakar winner Stephane Peterhansel with a 50th Anniversary R1 and sent him to the Sahara desert to grab these images on the huge sand dunes there. The only modifications necessary? A set of bar risers and a pair of race wets, the rear hand-cut to form paddles. And I thought I was...
26 March 2012
Photos: Marc Coma jumps Ronnie Renner
“We are not specialists in jumps,” said Marc Coma, soon after jumping his KTM 450 Rally 50 feet between two dunes, reaching a height of 20 feet. “Usually for it is important to keep the wheels on the ground in pursuit of pure speed.” With Ronnie Renner in Dubai for X-Fighters and Marc Coma in Abu Dhabi for the Desert Challenge (which he won), Red Bull took the opportunity to put two of ...
22 April 2011