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    Look the Part!

    Jul 02, 2021 5 minutes
    WORDS & PHOTOS // MITCH LEES

    Every January we get to witness the hardest motorsport event on the planet: Dakar. It pitches masochists and their machines against the environment in a war of attrition that lasts nearly two weeks … for those that don’t pull the pin. The Dakar Rally is a spectacle that is not only mouth-watering for travellers, adventurers, landscape photographers and racers but also those who obsess over bike builds and the appearance of a motorcycle.

    We get to see factory teams from GASGAS, KTM, Honda, Husqvarna, Sherco to Yamaha roll out million-dollar motorcycles for prologue and marvel at the works of art they have created. Anything that can survive this kind of torture for two weeks is an engineering masterpiece.

    Most of us only get to see these chariots of fire on our TV screens so much of the detail is hard to see. Even the factory press kit photographs don’t give

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