By the time this issue hits the newsstands just about every-thing that can be possibly be said about the 2016 Dakar will have been written, broadcast, rewritten, poached and found its way on to web forums in one form or another.
That’s great. As long as everyone’s talking about it, it can only be good for Toby Price and for adventure riding in general.
Australians are understandably excited about an Aussie finally winning the world’s toughest motorcycle race, and while I’ve never been a hard-core Dakar fan – I’m not good at navigation and I have nightmares about having to ride the fesh fesh – this year I sat glued to the SBS highlights every night and couldn’t wait to get to the computer each morning to see what’d happened while I was sleeping.