Dakar: What to wear for the world's toughest race

It’s quite possibly the hardest race on two wheels, and sees riders endure everything from sweltering heat to extreme cold, slow speed technical sections to high-speed flat out straights, and deserts and sand dunes to rivers and swamps.

So how exactly do you kit up for the Dakar Rally, taking into consideration a range of variables as big as that while still staying protected? Race leader Sam Sunderland and his Red Bull KTM teammates Toby Price and Matthias Walkner talk us through it.

Simon Patterson

By Simon Patterson

MotoGP and road racing reporter, photographer, videographer