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NIKEN LONG-TERMER
SO, AFTER LAST MONTH’S WONDERFUL SILLINESS OF MR DAVE COATES ESQUIRE RIDING THE NIKEN LIKE YOU’VE NEVER SEEN ONE RIDDEN BEFORE, AND PROBABLY WON’T AGAIN, THIS ISSUE IT’S BACK TO THE REALITY OF A COLD, WET BRITISH WINTER.
KAWASAKI W800 CAFE
WHEN, BACK IN 1999, KAWASAKI LAUNCHED THE W650, IT WAS ARGUABLY THE VERY FIRST PROPER RETRO TO BE OFFERED BY ANY OF THE BIG MANUFACTURERS AND, IN 2001, WHEN TRIUMPH (HINCKLEY) LAUNCHED THEIR FIRST, 790CC, BONNEVILLE, MORE OF A BONNEVILLE THAN THE TRIUMPH.
MIKE CHADWICK CUSTOM CRUISERS
A look at the people who live and breathe custom bikes
Last Week of July
WHILE MOST OF US HAVE A FEW WEEKENDS AWAY ON OUR BIKES EACH YEAR, SOME MORE, SOME LESS, IT SEEMS THAT FEW OF US ACTUALLY HEAD OFF FOR A WEEK OR MORE AWAY, JUST GOING SOMEWHERE FOR THE SAKE OF TRAVELLING.
FLAT-TRACKING BUELLIGAN
YOU’D NEVER’VE THOUGHT THAT TRICK BUELLS WERE LIKE RURAL BUSES, WOULD YOU, BUT THEY ARE – YOU DON’T SEE ANY FOR AGES, AND THEN TWO COME ALONG IN QUICK SUCCESSION…
21ST CENTURY TRITON
AS ANY FULE NOES, A TRITON IS AN AMALGAM OF A TRIUMPH ENGINE AND A NORTON FRAME, INVARIABLY WITH AN EQUALLY DIVERSE ORIGIN FOR THE ROLLING GEAR, BODYWORK AND BRAKES.
Made You Look
The exterior may scream ‘classic’ but there are enough details and custom touches on Paul Wood’s ST170 powered Mk1 Escort to keep you guessing for days. No wonder it took him 10 years to build.
Join The Club Ford Classic & Capri Owners Club
Championing Ford’s unsung ’60s duo, Stephen Wickham explains the club’s continued success.
Rock & Blues Old School Weekender
The 35th anniversary rock & blues lurched from baked to drenched, but were we bothered? Not for a minute!
HOW TO GO RACING
It may seem like a wild ride, but it’s not as intimidating as it looks. Here’s how to go racing in 2020…
SPECIAL EDITION DOLOMITE 1500
Andrew Burford reckons that a 1500SE represents the epitome of Dolomite design. Mike Taylor meets the man who likes to champion the underdog, and his ultra-rare example of Triumph’s evergreen Dolomite saloon.
MotoE: BRIGHT SPARK!
Dull, silent snooze-fest? Or the future of motorbike racing? The electric MotoGP support series MotoE has just finished its first season. Our man Alan Dowds went to watch the final round at Valencia, and find out how it’s gone.
PROJECT ZOIC
By 1958 Standard’s midrange saloon, the Vanguard, was ten years old, starting to look long in the tooth and struggling against the competition. Sales had tailed off so much that there was no money being generated for re-investment in a new model, though one was badly needed. ZOIC was the name given to the project to liven up the range. Phil Homer finds that far from being a stop-gap, the cars turned out to be the best Vanguards the company built.
JOLLY FAST, GREEN GIANT - 2012 KAWASAKI ZZR 1400
Ian Carson has got a handful of bikes, but when he heads off to Ireland with his son, Aiden, it’s got to be on his 2012 Kawasaki ZZR 1400. In his own words, he tell us exactly why that is…
Bringing the past back to life
Robert Browett bought his 1967 TR4A in October 2012, but he has a history with the model which goes back to the 1960s.
FUNSIZE
Earlier in the year, we had the chance to Raz Yamaha's new and updated R3 and R125.Now.they've updated the naked models in the family as well, so we headed over to Spain for quick blast...
MORLEY'S MACAU MARVEL
Morley Faulkner worked in the Standard-Triumph Competitions Department and was fortunate enough to drive the Macau racer on several occasions. He never forgot what a delight that car was to drive and has just achieved a long-held dream by building this faithful replica.
HALFWAY HEROES
They’re not sportsbikes, they’re not nakeds, they’re halfway between the two and they’re the heroes of the Naughties. We took these two icons for a blast…
FAST ENDURANCE ON A MOTO GUZZI V7 III
Ever fancied taking a café racer endurance racing? No, we haven’t either, but here at Fast Bikes, we’ll try anything once…
Early TR6 comes home
Steve Denton first got into Triumphs as the result of a misunderstanding. It was a most fortuitous mistake though and he now has the Triumph fleet of his dreams, including his ideal car in this early TR6.
BUCKET LIST 2020
It might still be cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey, but this is no time for wittering or complacency; it’s time to get plotting.
Fortune favours the brave
If you are buying a £2 CD from the internet, then you can probably take a chance on it being OK. If you are buying something as complex and potentially expensive as a Triumph Stag, you would probably be well advised to check it out thoroughly before parting with your cash. Sometimes though, you can take a chance and get away with it.
CLOCKWORK ORANGE?
Shawn Daniels has fully restored his 1968 Herald 13/60 convertible. It has ended up a very unusual and very eye-catching shade of orange, but it is fair to say that the restoration went anything but like clockwork.
40 YEARS ON....
Graham Robson reflects on the remarkable career of Triumph’s Small Car (SC) engine, a unit that went out of production nearly four decades ago but whose legacy lives on in so many of the cars we know and love.
Herald Suspension Overhaul
Thorough investigation turns into a major overhaul and a future-proofed Triumph
Hotter Rockets Launched For 2020
The world’s largest-capacity volume production motorcycle just got bigger.
KENZO
Over the last few years Death Machines of London has produced a number of pioneering builds, some of which you will have seen in these pages, not least the Air Force One Moto Guzzi from the cover of 100% Biker #231. Just when you think they can’t possibly surpass the last build, designer James Hilton of DMOL and engineer Ray Petty of Ray Petty Meccanica raise the bar just a little bit more. And that’s just what they’ve done again…
TOSAN ADJI
Today motorcycle customizing is a phenomenon that spans the entire globe, of that there can be little doubt. However, it’s still all too easy to think that building custom bikes is primarily confined to Europe and the United States and often, even in these days of social media and instant information, we don’t hear about what’s going on in other parts of the world
FRENCH MADE
After the Harley-Davidson Sportster, I would wager that the Yamaha XS650 is the most popular choice for a custom bike across the world
THE MALLE MILE - KEVINGTON HALL, ORPINGTON, KENT
It was that time of year when the Slaughter House Customs team heads to the Malle Mile. For the fourth year running we raced, drank and recovered from our hangovers…