Dakar 2013 - Official Event Coverage - thank you ALL TeamF5, lurkers and posters!

And for a fact that is 100% what has been going on since June - but maybe, just maybe they will hit on something better than everyone else does - that's R&D

Yesterday on spanish tv Coma said it took 10 years for KTM to win something in the Dakar

..again in english.


dakar.com

• 17:01 Bikes: Barreda opens the throttle again
  
  Spaniard Joan Barreda (Husqvarna) entered the second part of the special at 12:49:21 pm local time.

did HRC sad anything about guning for top spots in their 1st year?? That would be foolish imo even if you are HRC

The ASO timing team should be back from lunch soon......I hope.

Gravity feed to the pump, eliminating the theory that inter-tank transfer was the culprit. I actually like that placement.

No shit, huh?

Campell stopped, 5 minutes now, as per french dakar com

R&D on the side stand?

To me, HRC seems to get all wrapped around their process, rather than their rider. Competition at a high level takes place only somewhat on the drafting table, a great part of it is also the confidence the rider feels in the machine and in the team. They seem to neglect that sometimes.

I'm glad Helder got the ride and presumably the resulting paycheck, but I liked the story better when he was the pesky near privateer needling the side of the KTM factory juggernaut.

all this talk about boxes... they saw them because practically everyone WAS malle moto

+1

I also fear next year IF the rumors are true and Cyril joins the hrc squad. Would hate to see Helder have to play second string after he suffers threw the development phase.

That's going to be an interesting report to read.

"9th? Lyndon Poskitt finished 9th??? The tall guy, with the blue bike?....he finished 9th? "

Can't really see HRC aka Honda Europe paying for two big

Wow! That's >40min ago and WP7's still not active.
?????

Spare a few minutes for the guy who started it all.

Thierry Sabine died on this day, the 14th of January, back in '86.

Not from my end, just couldn't see them paying for both - absolutely no inkling of anything to corroborate the rumour one way or another