Joe with his guards @ bivouac
Grider charging the water in Portugal
Grider grinding the special test
Our USA team red bull support truck.
Fast Andy in a special test
Testing central in tunisia for KTM factory
Tunisia testing
Habib the Snake charmer, Tunisa KTM buddy
Joe&amiga, Lisboa, Portugal front Blais poster @ Red Bull station
US Blais fans seek him out in New Guinea
Tunisia friends
Testing Dunlop’s new Rally tire, failed in Tunisia
Transporter for moto equipment
Blais in Dakar after greuling ordeal
Blais fans in Guinea
Team tea time with Habib in his shop Douz, Tunisia
USA team fans Africa
Habib with Joe, negotiating for KTM shirt!
Joe traditional Bedouin dress
blais_press shot
RBullStuntHelmet
grider_press shoot
grider poster shot tunisia
grider_africa village
amigo villadoms of spain gases it!
dakar_team_2006 grider & blais
dakar_team_2006 Joe & Blais
Joe_Barker_2006 Team Manager
Grider Matt Joe 2006
USA Dakar team, grider joe blais spencer matt
dakar_team 2006 & african friends
Blais testing
i ride motos for work?
Showboat testing
Champ Coma Lake Rose Dakar
Special test charging hard!
10 hours a day
local band morocco
long day & short nightly bivouacs
Gio Sala my hero! 45+yrs
constant maintenance daily
Doc & Joe discussing strategy
GodSpeed to the late Andy Caldecott
Team Depres of France mechanics hard at work
Local culture in the bivouac
sleeping near the safety of the transporter
Lonely ride in africa
constant grind day & night
What Next? Now what?
Jordi Acarons, “the roadbook will save your life!”
Prepare the roadbook well!
Midnight, still more work to do on the bikes
4:00 am final route changes and gas preparation mileage notes
Cold night slept on ground in bivouac, riders had my tent
Bivouac cuisine
Coma blasting
Joe & Andy discuss day strategy
Coma resting
Dakar Champions from Spain Nani Roma & Marc Coma
Sand all day, ginding pilot, moto, tires & chain
more sand
rocks pounding the kilometers out
Astrid KTM team Coordinator Dakar- speaks 5 languages
Sala injured, Doc Edwards, patch job
Batini working in Press tent, photographer extordnaire
Pensive Blais, rest day, Mauritania
mechanics repairing seats
Winner Coma
Chris Rest Day
Fixing Boot rest day
more sand dunes
really soft sand
mes amis
Blais & DeGavardo working on road books for next day’s stage
Cyril pounding the Senegal bush
Alain of Bamako, born local, lives in Paris, stage winner, good friend
Bivouac Situation, aye momma!
Safest sleeping under plane
Russian Antov mega hauler!
Blais thinking @ start of stage
deep concentration before day start
Guards with Joe
cruising the african village
Team Spain blasting the river
Jo Sala Enduro multi world champ
Roberto feching material with ktm pit racer
Dakar organization Command central in Antov transport
Cyril Depres stressed after 2 weeks of a nightmare called Dakar
Coma dumps petrol, tired
Coma, Stress of Dakar
Team KTM USA support truck balsting a village
local villagers watch
Coma and wife @ finish in Dakar
towards end in Senegal
Our usa friend Johan Street charging
Shores of Lake Rose
USA Team on Podium Dakar06 w/ KTM CEO Pier & boss Nicoll
Lake Rose and Victory
