BMW’s Unlikely Dakar Champion: How an Air-Cooled Twin Conquered the World’s Toughest Rally
The Paris-Dakar Rally is one of the most punishing endurance races on the planet, where extreme terrain, relentless conditions, and sheer mechanical abuse push machines and riders to their absolute limits. It’s an event where lightweight, high-tech, and purpose-built off-road bikes have traditionally thrived. And yet, in the early 1980s, BMW did the unthinkable—they entered […]