Saudi Dirtbike Center was created in Mishal Alghuneim’s garage and nurtured since its early infancy by his love for dirtbikes and the desert.
To fully understand the story of the Saudi Dirtbike Center you will need to get to know Mishal. In 2015, Mishal created this initiative to grow his riding community to always have a riding buddy to explore the desert, he shared his bikes and knowledge amongst friends and started to gain some traction with some of the local and expat riders.
As of 2017, Mishal began charging some of these riders to rent his bikes and go on guided desert trips, It has organically grown ever since….slowly transforming his passion for bikes and the outdoors into more and more of a lifestyle and full-time commercial operation!
THE TIMELINE
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Pre 2015
Mishal owned 3 bikes and rode lots with his brothers and close friends to explore the local deserts around the eastern province of Saudi
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2015
Mishal, started taking on new friends and clients to explore more of the deserts and started charging them for guided desert tours.
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2016
Mishal operated with a fleet of 5 bikes, 3 owned and 2 lent by a close friend to be rented and used for the guided tours
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2017
Mishal bought 5 brand new KTM bikes and dedicated some support vehicles to go on major trips across the country and abroad as part of the guided tours he has [...]
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2019
More enduro and adventure tours, also started to get envolved in regional and local rally events and hard enduro events, being crowned Saudi Rally Champion 2019
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2020
Tipping point and taking this passion for bikes to the next level with enduro tours, adventure bike tours, training and racing services and retail
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2021
After successfully completing the Dakar Rally in 2020, Mishal became the first Saudi to ever enter and finish the Dakar Rally. After the race there were big planse to scale [...]
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2022
Again with another ssuccessful finish in the Dakar, this time in the orginal by motul class top 10 and 42nd overall Mishal felt he was becoming a keen racer. Unfortunately [...]
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2023
Mishal decided to go baack again for the Dakar in 2023 and run his enduro bike tours alongside the race with a keen push to expanding and scaling up the [...]