Awesome Dakar pics

Great pics for sure and from a source you would never expect.

37 photos and closing in on 400 comments. Mostly possitive and many people in awe but the usual negative ones as well. I've read em all, at least the ones I could read. I posted a comment #65 days ago.
 
Ya go Jonah Street, go! local Washingtonian sits solidly in 7TH overall last I saw. Not bad for a guy who's day job is a carpenter.

He missed taking stage 11 by 3 seconds. :cool:

Roscoe

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Roscoe
 
Go Rally Pan Am!!!

Nice pics!

Side note. I have ridden a few times with Charlie Rauseo brother Dave. Dave ran Dakar...2005 I think. And yes, I do feel special. :p
 
Has anybody seen how much it costs to sign up for this race?! Yikes. I thought the ISDE was expensive.
 
Has anybody seen how much it costs to sign up for this race?! Yikes. I thought the ISDE was expensive.

The best one on a non- team bike, name was Duclos, a french.
He said in an interview that the whole dakar is going to cost about 65,000 euros = 95,000 USD. My guess is that if you aren't going to compete for winning propably you can do it for 20 - 30 000 euros or 30 - 40 000 USD.

Edit. Here's a registration fee for motorcycle for motorbikes/ quads
http://www.dakar.com/2010/DAK/presentation/docs/concurrents/insc_tarif_moto_quad_us.pdf
 
The best one on a non- team bike, name was Duclos, a french.
He said in an interview that the whole dakar is going to cost about 65,000 euros = 95,000 USD. My guess is that if you aren't going to compete for winning propably you can do it for 20 - 30 000 euros or 30 - 40 000 USD.

Edit. Here's a registration fee for motorcycle for motorbikes/ quads
http://www.dakar.com/2010/DAK/presentation/docs/concurrents/insc_tarif_moto_quad_us.pdf

I think I'll drive "Päijänteen ympäriajo" first. It's a lot cheaper :)
 
Me too, minä myös
And in Egypt is a rally raid called Rally des Pharaons it would be also cool (and cheaper than dakar)

Jep Jep! Mutta ennen niitä tätyy ajella vähän aikaa kansallisia ja SM skaboja, että saa vähän kokemusta. Saattashan tuonne Espanjaan mennä BMW-miehen endurosafarillekkin...
 
+ fuel
+ accomadation , before the event starts and after
+ transporting yourself/ bike to scrutinerring, accomadation while there
+ buying the bike, building it.
+ buying the irirtrack/sentinal recivers, all the gps wiring.
+ insurance etc
+ if you want proffesional pictures you have to pay a company to take them of you!
+ if you break anything while there and want to buy an engine or a wheel, out comes the checkbook.

The list is endless, even if you do it unsurported you will still have to pay ASO to transport your stuff between each bivoac.

I have a friend who did it last year, Mike Sheperd (Kiwi) living in Uk and he estimated that all in it cost him £45000 ($73000) and he could only estimate it as ASO kept adding bits to the final price and he lost track of everything he had bought.
 
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