Motorcycle Splits in HALF at Dakar Rally

After a relatively successful and competitive campaign, during the penultimate stage Fran Gómez Pallas was cruising along at a decent clip on his one-off Green Power Energy electric machine when the frame snapped near the head tube. The catastrophic failure sent the bike in two different directions and threw Pallas to the ground in a heap.

Fortunately Arctic Leopard’s Jack Cai was right behind him at the time and was able to attend to the fallen Spaniard immediately. So too was the medic crew and Fran was able to walk away relatively unscathed (one broken rib… child’s play for a crash like that). This was also thanks, in part, to his wearable Helite airbag system that deployed just as it was designed to do.

📷 Dakar Rally

📝 Bayo Olukotan

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