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Two custom cafe racers from the imaginatively named Retro Prestige Motorcycles.The first,BMW R65 'Le Coquin' is RPM's first commissioned build since moving to their new premises in Paarden Island,a semi-industrial neighbourhood just outside Cape Town's city center.The second is the owner,David's bike…a BMW R100RS which took him about 2 years to build and foreshadowed the…
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Let's face it.Cape Town has always been Japanese superbike country and before the supers ruled the roads the muscle bikes were at the top of the food chain…course back then they were also called superbikes….you know what i mean.So it stands to reason that there's been many attempts at customizing the plethora of bikes to…
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Cold?…it was bloody freezing…and rainy…the kind of morning i prefer to spend (finger quotes) "updating my websites" or…."managing social traffic"… but i knew if i was gonna get a crack at the 2014 motorcycle of the year i'd better not dally and so i found myself on the N7 running north out of Cape Town…
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Certainly a tough man to pin down but we eventually managed to find a slot in the Western Province superbike champs busy schedule to bring you the fourth rider profile of the series. Risk assessment,strategy planning,hostile take-overs….it's all business for this ex rugby player who sees his career and his career in motorcycles as a…
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Time to meet the guy who came to within a hair's breadth of the 2013 Western Province superbike championship,Aran van Niekerk. It was a season filled with thrills and spills and Aran was always at the forefront.His new Kawasaki meant that he could compete on level ground where in previous years his slightly aged (in…