Alongside the Malle Motto trunks, dusty tents and tired faces – these first few jackets found their home – hung to dusty handlebars and bundled into makeshift pillows, and at times warming the late-night finisher battling mechanical repairs in the flood of a headlamp.
Today, MIRA kit has found its way to the race trucks, camper vans and Instagram channels of the top factory teams while still standing steadfast with the common man of Dakar.
The Privateer!”
Graeme Sharp – Harare, Zimbabwe