Tag: motorcycle
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Cape Town – To look at it one would never think that this shape is 35 years old.Hans Muth's Target Design draughted this machine in an incredibly short 3 months after flagging sales of the technically brilliant but conservatively styled Suzuki GSX1100 saw the company take a new direction.European buyers wanted more modernity so Muth…
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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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From scraping pegs around Helshoogte on a Dyna to squirting dirt at Zone 7 and taking his first checkered flag in the 2013 regional championship.Meet the Western Province Motor Club's most promising new rider,'Rookie of the Year',Andre Calvert.There was a rumour (mostly started by myself) that Andre is testing on a liter bike but for…