Скачать или смотреть What's it like to compete in the Dakar Rally?

If you’ve discovered adventure riding, been to an off-road school and think you’re pretty handy having survived a weekend or two thrashing your GS or KTM Adventure round Wales, then the Dakar Rally is your TT, MotoGP and trip to the moon all rolled into one. And, unlike MotoGP, where you have to be Spanish or talented and dedicated enough to spend your entire childhood, teenage years and early adulthood going round and round in circles, pretty much anyone with the money and the guts to enter the Dakar can do it.

Britain’s Mick Extance did just that. And his story shows just how taxing the Dakar is. Mick is a multiple Enduro champion, Gold medal winner in the International Six Days Trial, mountain bike champion and seven times Dakar racer. He’s finished the race five times, but even with that level of talent and experience has yet to make it into the top 20 at the end.

In December 2017 Mick underwent major surgery on a brain tumour meaning he missed the 2018 and 2019 races (that trumps any kind of note from your mum), but he’s vowed to be back in the saddle for 2020. BikeSocial spent time, training with him in Morocco recently and took the chance to learn what it takes to be the best adventure bike rider.

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