Yamaha may be leaving Dakar as a factory motorcycle effort, but it will stick around in the side-by-side class with its YXZ1000R SSV racer, despite Can Am's absolute and total domination of this ...

The Dakar’s most successful competitor, Stephan Peterhansel, made the biggest contribution to Yamaha’s victory tally with five wins in 1992, ’93, ’93, ’95, ’97 and ’98.

That's only most ADVs, though, not all of them. This modified Yamaha Tenere 700, with its bodykit inspired by an era back when Dakar was cool, is an exception. It may well be the neatest looking ...

Yamaha is the only manufacturer that has participated in every iteration of the famed Dakar Rally since its inception in 1979. Cyril Neveu won that year’s rally aboard a Yamaha XT500 and followed it ...

The Yamaha XT500 first proved its reliability by clinching victory in the inaugural cross-desert Paris-Dakar Rally three years after the bike was introduced in 1976. Powered by a 499cc (30.5 cu ...

Yamalube Yamaha Official Rally Team will be lead Helder ... “I’m really confident for a positive result at this coming Dakar,” Rodrigues said. “All the members of our team have done ...

CATAMARCA, Argentina (AP) — Belgian motorcycle rider Eric Palante has died at the Dakar Rally, organizers said Friday. Organizers said they went out looking for the 50-year-old Palante after he ...

It's not technically a race, but we'll get to see what a Segway motorcycle can do. Segway is probably one of the last automotive brands you'd ever think to feature in the Dakar Rally. And rightly ...