Life Goals: Riding The Pyrénées With Cyril Despres

Cyril Despres has nothing left to prove on a motorcycle. He’s got five Dakar Rally victories under his belt, plus wins at hell-on-earth events like the Red Bull Romaniacs and the Erzberg Rodeo. These days, Despres leaves his highly-strung race bikes in the garage. When he heads out on two wheels, he’s more likely to take his Yamaha XSR700 daily runner, his Ural sidecar, or his classic DT125. The French rally great lives in motorcycling nirvana: Andorra. The tiny microstate is high up in the Pyrénées Mountains, sandwiched between France and Spain, and it's loaded with endless, well-groomed mountain passes....