Grant Wood’s parents wouldn’t let him have a motorcycle when he was a kid. So he obsessed over what they would let him own—a plastic model of a BMW R80G/S, a German dual sport bike made famous in the early 1980s when European riders used it to win the famous Paris Dakar Rally.
For a boy who loved machines and the outdoors, the BMW and the Dakar Rally—an endurance race that takes participants from the cobbled streets of France to the desert dunes of North Africa—sparked an interest for him that wouldn’t go away.
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