September 14, 2025

BMW’s Boxer Twin and the Paris-Dakar Rally: An Unlikely Off-Road Legend

The Paris-Dakar Rally is one of the toughest endurance races on the planet. Extreme terrain, grueling conditions, and relentless mechanical abuse test both riders and machines to their absolute limits. Traditionally, lightweight, high tech, single cylinder off-road bikes have dominated the event. But in the early 1980s, BMW took a radically different approach fielding an

BMW’s Boxer Twin and the Paris-Dakar Rally: An Unlikely Off-Road Legend Read More »