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2020
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EDITOR’S
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Our annual survey
results are in and I
always find it fascinating
to see who reads our
magazine. 387 of you did
the effort this time and
one of you being Jonathan
Shiffman from Cape Town
actually won the Sym Crox
125 Scooter. We did the
draw at KMSA on Facebook
Live with all the names
in an Arai helmet just to
be 100% transparent, so
to Jonathan, congrats my
man.
We’ve aged again, average
age reading SuperBike
Magazine is now 48 years
of age, 90% male, almost
60% English speaking and
mostly married (65%) with
14% of you currently not
owning a bike at all. That
would mean that you are
fishing, I hope? 53% of you
buy cash, you mostly like
commuting by bike, 29%
of you might be batting for
the other side as you don’t
like our grid girls and you
sound like a fairly wealthy
bunch, almost half of you
earn more than R500k per
annum. Something I took
particular interest in was
your favourite brand of motorcycle,
these percentages
do not correspond with
market shares of sales and
I was wondering how come
that is.
Something for the future is
that 62% of you wanted an
interactive SuperBike Mag
App on your phone, best we
get to work hey.
On the off-road side, a
third of you ride in the bush
but 55% of you who don’t
currently are thinking of
it. What I liked to see and
found hard to believe is
that more of you follow
local racing than MOTO GP
and WSBK combined, you
patriotic bunch, best we up
out local racing content.
And lastly, 66% of you want
a weekly news letter from
us and you want more sic bike articles.
So, thanks for helping us
steer SuperBike in the
direction that you our read-
clasers
want us to go.
Reading what you want
and putting this magazine
together with what we
think you would like to read
has as always been a thing
of passion for me, I have
absolutely loved my career
choice so far and with your
help we can just make our
offer that much better.
So till next time, go riding
and enjoy our country in
what must be the best riding
weather in the world.
Clinton Pienaar
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V4
DUCATI
MULTISTRADA
The new V4 retains and extends
the winning formula
of “four bikes in one” introduced
by the Multistrada in
2010.
The Multistrada V4 covers
a variety of souls. The
“Sport”, light and compact,
powered by 170 hp, advanced
electronic MotoGP
aid system together with a chassis set-up
featuring agile dimensions for an exciting and
effective ride in mixed terrain. The Multistrada
V4 is also “Touring”, thanks to the main
maintenance intervals set every 60,000 km,
obsessive attention to ride comfort, all-new
front and rear Radar systems, cartographic
navigation system, directly viewed on the
dashboard, as well as cornering lights. It also
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is combined with top-level connectivity system
and thermal comfort.
9
10 SuperBike
SELLER WINS!
Despite dominating proceedings
at the front of the
litre-class field, David Mc-
Fadden (RPM Center/Stunt
SA/Lights by Linea Yamaha
R1) could not prevent Clint Seller
(King Price Xtreme Yamaha R1) from
claiming his seventh South African
championship title at the final round
of the 2020 NGK Spark Plugs South
African SuperBike Series held at Port
Elizabeth’s Aldo Scribante Racetrack
on Saturday, 31 October.
Racing has seen a massive dip in
numbers over the last few years, but
riders such as Clinton Seller have
never stopped or given up to keep the
sport alive.
Clinton has raced internationally
in AMA as well as World Endurance.
Is he on his way to attempt to break
the Russell Wood records? We sure
hope so!
PETRONAS SPRINTA
RACING MOTO3 SIGN
DARRYN BINDER FOR 2021
DONEDEAL
Agreement signed with Ducati:
Luca Marini to compete in MotoGP in
2021 in the colours of the Sky Racing
Team VR46 with the Esponsorama
Racing Team
Another mission accomplished for the
sky racing team vr46 as after Bagnaia,
another young italian talent moves up
the top class.
New rider line up in moto2: Newly-promoted
Celestino Vietti Ramus
will share the pit with Marco Bezzecchi
on Kalex
Darryn Binder: “I’m really happy
to be joining PETRONAS Sprinta
Racing for next season. I was super
excited when the opportunity
came and I think we have big potential
together and a great package
to work with. I feel like we can
do a really good job together and
can have a bright future. Personally,
I think that this is the best
opportunity to make the last step
up to continually be at the top of
the standings. Our target will be
to fight for the top positions at
every race.”
Andrea Dovizioso
Ducati Team’s Andrea Dovizioso has
announced he will not be on the
MotoGP World Championship grid in
2021, bringing to an end a 13-year run
in the premier class. The Italian had
been heavily linked with a test rider
role next season but has announced he
will be taking a sabbatical year with the
intention of returning in 2022.
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12 SuperBike
TRIUMPHTRIDENT
Friendly, mid-capacity
roadsters
are all the rage,
and the sales
chart evidence
highlights that fact but up
until now there’s been an
obvious omission in the
shape of a well-known
British manufacturer.
Well, sort of. Behold the
new 2021 Triumph Trident
– a 660cc, three-cylinder,
opponent to the Yamaha
MT-07 and Kawasaki Z650
that have been grabbing
a large percentage of this
market in recent times.
Yes, the British
marque has had the
Street Triple S on its
books since January of
this year as an accomplice
to the R and RS
but with a 660cc engine
making 47bhp rather than
the R and RS’s 765cc version
making 116bhp and
121bhp respectively.
However, the new Trident
has been earmarked
as a restrictable naked
demonstrating Triumph’s
ambition to introduce a
new generation of riders
to the brand with a
well-balanced package
containing strong rider
ergonomics, style and
quality mixed with performance,
a three-cylinder
motor and a range of
rider aids. This could be
the most important motorbike
Triumph bring to
the market in years.
For more information
and full specs visit the
Triumph Motorcycles
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13
CASEY STONER AND
HIS BATTLE WITH
CHRONIC FATIGUE
SYNDROME
NO TEAM ORDERS AT SUZUKI MOTOGP
Brivio declares that in
Suzuki they are romantic
and don’t like team
orders: “I said to Mir and
Rins: may the best man
win. We want rivalry
between them, but there
must be respect. We
are disappointed about
not being able to race
against Marc Marquez
on the track.”
SUPERBIKE
READER
SURVEY
COMPETITION
- SYM CROX
125 WINNER!
Jonathan Shiffman is the winner of the Sym
Crox 125cc scooter for our survey, congrats
and enjoy the bike.
We will be publishing a pic of him taking
delivery of his bike next month, this all just
happened right at our deadline date and
we could not get the bike down to him in
time. Jonathan is actually a Sym owner, he
bought his Dad a Sym Fiddle last year when
his Vespa got stolen, so a worthy winner.
Please go to our Facebook page and see
how we did the Facebook live draw at the
KMSA office. Almost 400 of you entered and
we put all the names in an Arai helmet and
did the draw.
Casey Stoner and his
battle with chronic
fatigue syndrome
Australian MotoGP
legend Casey
Stoner has revealed to Australian
breakfast television show
Today his battle with chronic
fatigue syndrome, otherwise
known as MECFS.
Stoner, a two-time MotoGP
World Champion in 2007 and
2011, has been battling the
disease since 2018 and is now
helping to raise funds for a
research center for a cure in
Australia.
“Currently, we have no
cure,” Stoner said from his
home in Queensland, Australia.
“We don’t have enough information
on things that can help.
If we have more specialists and
more knowledge in it (MECFS),
and people can see doctors
and maybe get a bit of help
get some understanding from
people.”
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JOANMIR
”Pressure? Pressure is
what is happening with
the Covid or people who
can’t pay the rent…I’m
competing for a MotoGP
title and if it goes well,
it will go very well & if it
ends bad, then it will also
go well for me. There are
many ppl who are having
a worse time.”
SERT CROWNED
WORLD CHAMPION
OF ENDURANCE
CAM
PETERSEN
The Petersen family have a rich
heritage of championship winning
riders. Cam Petersen, son of
Robbie Petersen has just won the
2020 MotoAmerica Superbike stock
1000 category onboard a Suzuki
GSX-R1000.
After ex-WorldSBK rider, PJ
Jacobsen sidelined himself, Petersen
went on to dominate the 2020
season in fine form.
The Suzuki Endurance Racing
Team [SERT] is the new world
champion of Endurance, thus
succeeding the Team SRC Kawasaki
France.
With the conclusion of the
four rounds of the 2019/2020
season, SERT’s fourth place
in the 12 Hours of Estoril, an
event that marked the end of the
championship, arrived to win the
title that escaped the team since
2016.
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FASTEST
NAKED IN THE WORLD
Only 200 MV Agusta Serie
Oro models were produced
for the global market. 3 of
those have made their way
to South Africa, and have all been
pre-sold! There is a possibility of
one more coming into the country,
who will the very lucky owner be?
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Brad Binder
European GP
“The race started OK but I got a bit boxed-in through the first two-three corners. I didn’t want to take too much of a risk
with the full fuel tank and I knew the Long Lap penalty was coming early on. As soon as I did it I dropped down the order
and worked to catch back up but then Cal Crutchlow crashed in front of me and I had to run off the track! I lost a few
more seconds that lap. The comeback was not bad. I felt good and the bike worked really well today. Even when the tires
were used we could keep the same lap-times. It was a shame about the result because we had the pace for much better
but I’m really happy and I think we can do a good job next weekend.”
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These smart and stylish caps are now
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LETTERS
IN ASSOCIATION WITH
THE LETTER
OF THE MONTH
WINS A HJC
HELMET.
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BINDERITE
FAN
Brad, from a hardcore Binderite fan, let’s add
my little perspective to the mix.
It’s absolutely fabulous for me, and a heap
of us other saffers watch you participate in
MotoGP each week. And while your win was
spectacular, and very nice, to be frank it was
unexpected, and it would be naive for us or
anyone else to expect it to continue in this,
your rookie year. Which, with all the added
drama imposed by Covid, must have been a
rookie year from hell for you.
So for all of us die-hard saffer fans, just to
have “our” boytjie lining up for MotoGP is
in itself a win; where you come after that
is just a bit of icing, as the cake itself is
already super sweet.
To see our flag in the grid lineup is amazing,
and to know that we have a seffrican to root
for, cheer for, lament with, suffer with, and
rejoice with when it all goes well is simply
fantastic. In bike racing viewing it doesn’t
get better.
And when “our” rider is a talent like you are,
its sublime indeed.
I’ve been a bike racing fan for longer than
you have been
alive by more
than double, so
I’ve watched
more than a few
races over the
decades. I’ve seen
just how hard it is
for a enormously
talented racer
just to get to the
startline for the
supporting
classes, let alone the premier one.
We all watched you fight your way up to
supremacy in Moto3, not an easy battle.
Then take on Moto2, and, before we could
even begin to register the import of that you
sailed into MotoGP, and here we are today at
the absolute pinnacle of bike racing.
So from an old die-hard fan some support
to your corner. We’ve got your back, we’re
behind you and will be, thru thick and thin,
come what may.
So give it horns, and focus
on the racing and enjoy it.
We your true fans will be
here, right behind you,
right up until the last
straight and the final
chequered flag, irrespective
of what your race
position might be. Vasbyt
and gooi it boet!!! We’re
just lovin’ it all.
Cheerio Joe Holmes
BIKE PASSION
NEVER DIES
Hi Team SuperBike.
I just have to tell you that I am so
so happy that the mag survived the
Lockdown. I was thrilled when I got
my copies through the post the other
day. It seems that the mag has been
upgraded as well? Thicker paper and
more articles? NICE!
I had to sell my babies a little while
ago, and I have to say that when the
Slabside Gixxer 750 and first R1 left
my house, there were some tears
there.
Your mag keeps me connected to my
passion.
Thanks team! Glad you are around
still.
Best Regards
Andre Lawrence
Hi Andre
For sure this is a new world we are
living in. Glad we can still keep your
passion alive. I find it quite intriguing
with bikers, once biking is in your
blood it stays forever.
I have so many guys who come to our
training and who left it for a few years
while they were putting kids through
school but once they felt the kids
(and Mom) were ok, they immediately
got back into it.
Hope your fortunes
change soon.
Kind regards
Clinton
sien.
Lekker dik met goeie artikels
Die meeste van ons bikers was erg
depressief met die dat daar feitlik
geen motorfiets tydskrifte te koop
was nie. (dit sluit die Britse, VSA
tydskrifte in wat nie meer beskikbaar
is nie)
Hoop julle gaan nog lank beskikbaar
wees.
Johan Maree
Hi Johan
Lekker man lekker. I got to tell you,
although it’s a lot of work to compile
it and make sure we have the right
mix between superbike, road, adventure
and every now and then cruiser.
I absolutely love it. If I had to look
back on my life, the last 14 years with
SuperBike have been my most enjoyable.
I might not be racing myself
anymore which I thought was my best
part, but in retrospect, this is it for me.
I love enabling new riders to experience
what I experience and I love to
introduce people to 2 wheels, and the
magazine has been my perfect platform
for it with the training school.
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By Clinton Pienaar
Pics by BMW Press
BMWR18
Immediately you are aware on seeing
the bike for the first time that this bike
is squarely aimed at the North American
Harley market.
Never mind about South Africa,
we are not important as far as
numbers go at all but considering
Harley Davidson sold
well over 100000 big American
motorcycles in North America alone last
year, you can imagine, BMW want a slice
of that pie. This bike is made to appeal to
that exact market, chrome and all with
plenty of cubic capacity to boot.
You also can’t bring something that
is not authentic and real into that market
and for sure you cannot just copy the
establishment’s Softail Slim on which this
bike seems to be modeled. You also need
to have your own angle and that BMW has
plenty of. I thought its very clever how
BMW are quick to point out that the styling
harks back to their 1936 R5 showing that
the DNA of this bike also has a very long
heritage and history. Starting off with the
(historically correct) white “hand” painted
pin striping on shiny black painted surfaces,
tear drop tank harking back to history
with spoked rims and that very classic
looking speedo clock, fenders and exhausts.
My favorite part was the open drive
shaft with universal joints spinning around
in the open. This bike oozes cruiser but in
its own very unique way.
Standing a little closer I like the clean
design, no loose cables and switchgear.
Even the engine heads are clean and
chromed out. It’s got a very stylish and
simplistic design approach, again harking
back to the R5 I thought. Even the 49mm
front forks are wrapped in period correct
fork covers. She is a big girl at 345kgs
but also easy to ride for shorter people
because it is so low. I actually found it a
little cramped for my long legs if I must be
honest.
Another thing, as you push the starter
motor and this big 1800cc boxer motor
rumbles to life and it kind of just sits their
rumbling and vibrating and shaking a
little, it has its’s own very unique Bavarian
character and does have a familiar Boxer
BMW sound, albeit a little deeper. The
exhaust note was good but I’d like it aftermarket
louder.
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A 1802cc boxer twin — the
largest ever built by BMW — is
a central focus point of the R
18 and the shape harks back to
the 1936 BMW R5.
As we pulled away, I was wondering
if BMW had not thrown to much
technology into the bike and taken
away a little what makes bikes like
this charming, was it put together
with too many guys wearing white
coats and reporting to the boss-man
above them. Luckily, I can report
back that everyone at the factory
who were responsible for putting
this project together are all passionate
bikers, so I can report back
that I found very little fault with this,
BMW’s second attempt at the cruiser
market. I say 2nd because remember
the 1200 C that they used in the Bond
Movie with Pierce Brosnan. Funnily
enough that bike never took off and
never sold well enough for it to be
carried on in production but ask any
of the bike buyers now, if one comes
available it gets picked up immediately
for handsome money.
Our route for the ride was an
ambitious 300km round trip starting
in Stellenbosch around to Ceres,
Franshoek, Rooi Els and then back
again. I say ambitious as there is no
wind protection, the riding position
is one of street cruiser but luckily for
us Cape Town was showing off with
awesome weather.
The engine, a 1802cc air oiled
cooled boxer twin has incredibly
torque at very low revs, not in Triumph
Rocket 3 territory but the figures
talk for themselves, almost 130
Nm at just off idle at 1750rpm and it
builds to 158 Nm at 3000rpm. Power
is only 91 HP at 4650 rpm but the
character of the engine lends itself to
short shifting. TC and ABS is standard
as is heated handlebars, cruise
control and 3 riding modes called,
Rock and Roll and Rain. I preferred
Rock which is the quicker delivery.
At idle I loved the way it pulled to the
right with engine blips, very traditional
BMW boxer with added oomph.
The bike being BMW lends itself
to good handling and this was my
only bug bear, the bikes handling is
good which gives the rider confidence
but as soon as you get it a little over
it starts scraping the foot-pegs a
little pre-maturely I thought, and it
was not just me, all of the journalists
were scraping to the extent that you
actually wind your neck in a little as
you feel it might push you wide in a
few corners to cause a problem, and I
remind myself again that it is a cruiser,
so take it easy.
In summary, do I think BMW
have this second take at the Cruiser
market right. Well it’s a gorgeously
made, easy to ride big capacity cruiser
with heritage, so the only thing
actually standing in its way is that it
is not made in America, but for the
rest they have it down 100% correctly.
It ticks all the boxes and only time
will tell, but I bet Harley is not overly
excited because this is a formidable
alternative offer to the Milwaukee
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MOROCCO DESERT
CHALLENGE
First
SAFFAS to attempt Morocco Desert
Challenge on motorcycles
We catch up with two local rally riders
and good friends, Willem Avenant
and Mark Johnson, as they get ready
to attempt the Morocco Desert Challenge
(MDC).
Currently the MDC is the second
largest rally in the world, with only
the Dakar being slightly bigger. In
fact the MDC has more truck entries
than the Dakar. The MDC starts in
the south of Morocco and traverses
the entire country, often following old
Dakar stages, to finish in the north of
the country.
Willem and Mark first met during
the Tankwa Rally in 2019, where we
were both doing a “back-to-back” going
straight on to the Kalahari Rally
in 2019.
Thus, it is safe to say their friendship
was a baptism of fire that was
forged in the heat of rally passion.
Mark is a great rider, and master
bike builder, while Willem’s strength
lies in his navigation and ability to
strike up a conversation with just
about anybody, even in the middle
of a desert. Strengths that definitely
will compliment each other in a rally
setting.
So, who are these guys?
Willem started riding from a young
age on his dad’s Honda Express
50cc, dreaming of one day racing the
Dakar, he explored the district of the
Karoo town of Murraysburg, where
he is currently living with his wife and
daughter.
Doing odd jobs over weekends,
delivering newspapers and selling
horses and second-hand bikes, he
progressed through the predictable
range of bikes, from a DT50 to an
XL250 to a IT175, and eventually a
KTM 250 (back when KTM was still a
grey import).
After working abroad for a while,
the first thing he bought upon his
return was an Africa Twin 750. The
childhood Dakar dream never waivered,
but with the rumble of the v
twin, the dream was ignited. Eventually,
in 2017, Willem bought his first
rally bike, and started competing on
the rally scene in 2018 at the Kalahari
Rally.
Currently Willem is a KTM Cape
Town athlete, and represents KTM
Cape Town on the local WCOC circuit
in the social class, where he has
taken several race wins, and hopes to
clinch the championship in the social
class this year, after the final race in
the Koue Bokkeveld.
Willem had planned to compete
in the Albania and Kalahari rallies of
2020, but due to COVID, it was not to
be. He did manage to get to Mexico
for the 2020 Sonora Rally in March,
just before lockdown, where he
formed part of the Rally Comp timing
team and rubbed shoulders with
some US racing legends like Johnny
Campbell, Ricky Brabec, Skyler
Hows, Colton Udall, and many more.
Mark started riding when he was
about 15 on 50cc’s, and quickly pro-
Thomas, Mark, Willem and Johan, - Tankwa KR19 back to back
Atlantis dunes
Kalahari
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gressed into super bikes when he was
17 with a Katana 1100 as his first super
bike (respect).
He remained on on-road bikes right
until he returned to Cape Town after
spending a number of years in the UK.
He had his first taste of dirt on a stock
standard R80 G/S in 2015. This was
quite the experience, and he was surprised
that he went back to dirt after
riding that thing.
From there he slowly progressed
into more serious off road riding, to
where he is today - a kick ass rally rider.
He can ride the pants off a 701, and
then some.
When he met Walter Terblanche
through a mutual friend, Walter having
done quite a few rallies himself, Mark
was introduced to the world of rally,
which had not been ons his radar until
then.
He loved the idea of the adventure,
the physical and mental challenge and
the fact that you didn’t have to be the
fastest to win. He also liked the fact
that you could build your own bike, and
that that also contributed in a large way
to one finishing.
Other than rally riding, Mark is a
master bike builder, and he started
Johnston Moto in 2015, as a hobby to
build custom motorcycles. His first ever
build was featured on BikeExif (one of
the largest custom motorcycle build
sites in the world). He has built a few
other bikes since then, one of course
being his rally bike for the Kalahari
Rally, as well as his 701 Rally Replica.
It is safe to say Johnston Moto
bikes are rare, exclusive, bespoke and
top of the range.
So, now you know who they are, it
is time that we get behind our boytjies.
Let’s “rally” around them and support
them in their bid to be the first South
Africans to cross the finish line of the
second biggest rally in the world. It’s
going to be tough, but we know they
can do it!
They need your help and support,
so share the word and help them where
you can! After a year like 2020, we can
all sure do with a good news story!
You can follow their progress
through the KTM Cape Town facebook
page or WillemAvenant282 on Facebook.
Willem and Mark are also on
Instagram: johnston_moto and wravenant.
Go give them a like and a follow and
also follow KTM Cape Town for regular
updates.
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APRILIARSV4
By Clinton Pienaar
Pics by Beam Productions
FACTORY 1100
It’s been 11 years in the making, but this is the best RSV4 yet and a direct
connection from the race teams WSBK and MotoGP to the factory and
put into a package which is faster on the track and more comfortable on
the road
WSBK rules
are all up to
a 1000cc, but
what Aprilia
have done
(and Ducati)
is add in 10%
more capacity in the same chassis.
The result is simply astounding
as in a claimed 217 Hp @ 13200
rpm, astounding. Jonathan Isherwood
from IMI (Italian Motorcycle
Importers) brought the latest bike
through to Red Star for me to
test, his words to me were
“You have got to ride this
bike to understand what
they have done to it”.
Being in the industry
for as long as I have
been, I meet praise
like that with a little
trepidation from
the importers, I mean what is he
supposed to say?
Well, he was not lying, sometimes
they just get it right and this
bike is absolutely just insanely
100% right. I stand to be corrected
but this could be the best superbike
I have ever ridden bar none,
OK maybe the HP4 Race but that
was R1.3 mil and it’s not road legal
so technically can’t be classed in
this competition. I’ve always been
on about how a bike if it’s just right
talks to you, well this Aprilia from
the moment I threw a leg over was
just like what I try and explain. For
a long time, I have been outspoken
on what an amazing sounding
motor this Aprilia V4’s is. And now
it gets fitted standard with the full
Evo Titanium exhaust, and it comes
with an auto tune that needs to be
unlocked by the service center with
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Standard carbon fibre
wings generate 8kg of
vertical downforce at
300km/h. They prevent
front wheel lift at very
high speed and add
stability in fast braking
zones.
a dedicated pin just for that bike. The
end result is something so linear,
crisp and sonorous sounding that the
hair on my arms actually stand up
thinking about it, it’s that good I kid
you not, it’s like Ferrari special.
But what is so different with this
bike? Well as much as I can go on
about the motor and the looks, by
the way which in essence are now 11
years almost unchanged except for
the wings and the colour, but are still
every bit as striking as before. But it
is the latest Smart EC 2.0 electronically
managed Ohlins NIX 43mm
upside down forks and TTX Mono
shock, which is also electronically
managed, that completely transform
the bike. Aprilia have said that they
would not look at electronic suspension
until it reduces lap times, well
like for like, same rider on Mugello,
this is good for at least 0.5 second.
Now you might say that is nothing but
give any one of the current MotoGP
riders 0.5 second which translates
into 12 seconds over 24 laps and all
of a sudden you have someone else
winning. Jon set the bike into normal
track mode for me first and later
in the racing mode and we did not
even play too much with the different
levels of TC, but what I can say is that
the bike intuitively responds to your
braking and turn in and then hard
on the gas out of a corner the bike
just squats. He changed it into a soft
road setting once and although not
ideal for track riding I’d opt for that
on bumpy mountain roads. I wanted
it back on race setting with the Pirelli
Diablo Super Corsa tyres on. I could
have ridden all day and I wished I
could have ridden it on a track with
high speed sweeping bends like East
London or Kyalami.
In summary: At about R480k it’s
not cheap and it finds itself in the
company of the other exotic bikes like
the Fireblade SP, the Yamaha R1M,
The BMW S1000RR M Package and
Ducati V4S Panigale. Although I have
not ridden all of the others, I feel the
Aprilia will not have to stand back for
any of them and lets not forget the
10% capacity advantage it holds, and
it easily will be the best sounding.
And that is not even being subjective.
I’d own one in a heartbeat.
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FIRST RIDE
SYM
NHT 200
We recently did our adventure
“Lite” article where we rode
the 250 Honda’s, 310 BMW GS,
Zontes 310 T and KTM’s 390
Adventure. So by comparison,
this should be called Adventure
“Super” Lite.
Also, is Sym not only a Scooter
manufacturer? Well, they
actually manufacture a few
motorcycles for SA starting
off with a 125X Delivery bike and then
two 200cc Trail Blaze models, also
aimed at the delivery market. So
this NHT200 with it’s smaller 125cc
brother is a new venture for them.
I took a ride with my son Tristin as
pillion to Harties and we did a few
dirt roads around there before heading
back.
So these are my findings on this bike.
1.For sure it’s an entry level bike,
suspension and finish is stylish but
a little cheap, styling and look does
lean towards the adventure market
and is striking, my youngster loved it.
2.19 inch front and 17 inch rear
spoked rims with dual sport tyres
worked a treat in the dust, were fine
on the tar as well.
3.For just below R36k, it actually offers
lots of value, the 125cc is below
R30k, what can you buy for that?
Nothing, so it does offer great value
for money.
4.I liked the digital dash, that will
appeal to the younger audience for
sure. Great having a fuel level, trip,
odo, clock and gear indicator.
5.Headlights are LED as well as tail
unit and indicators.
6.For the youngsters who are forever
living for their next charge, there is a
USB charge socket.
7.Engine is a 183cc fuel injected
single, I saw 139 km/h on it but it
was a mine shaft and I resembled
something of arrow I was so flat on
the tank. It can do 120 but the moto
buzzes, it felt as if it could go to Cape
Town at 110 easily.
8.Consumption: we rode it flat out
and achieved just over 3.5l/100. 2.5
or better must be possible but you’d
need to be patient and not in a hurry.
With 11 litres tank capacity that’s a
good range.
9.Braking, my bug bear, but in truth,
for the rider it is aimed at, it is spot
on. I’m talking about the dual braking
here. I tried to stand up and slide the
rear for a photo, but almost lost the
front till I realized the bike was doing
the front wheel braking for me. But
for new riders who are nervous of
the front, it’s actually ingenious. On
tar I could lock up the back but the
front was braking hard. So I have to
take my first comment back about
the brakes. There is no ABS but not
surprised at below R36k.
10.Three Colours are available, this
red and white one, then a blue and
white and a black one.
So in conclusion, yes you’d be able to
do anything on this little bike that you
would on the bigger adventure bikes,
just you’d need a little more time to
get there. But in fear of repeating
myself, it offers great value for money
and I’m not sure why we don’t see
more youngsters riding around on
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By Clinton Pienaar
Pics by 2ft Stu
DUCATI
STREETFIGHTER
It was voted at EICMA as the most beautiful motorcycle in
2019. After attending the SA launch and seeing the bike in the
flesh just before Covid lockdown for the first time, you are
almost intimidated by the raw flexing of its muscles and that
is when it is just parked there quietly and before you even
start it.
Roll on a few months I had the
opportunity to ride it one evening
last month in a city setting. I was
given the standard one, Braam’s race
bike for 2021, and not the S model to
test. Main difference is suspension,
Showa and not Ohlins up front and
Sachs and not Ohlins at the back and
a lack of carbon fiber basically.
First off, the riding position,
you are sitting up and absorbing
the wind, all of it. I was happy I got
dressed in the HRP latest street gear
because you immediately feel as if
you want to be trendy on a funky bike
like this. It just lends itself to that
kind of posing, but I’m going off point
here. Jos and Braam are going to
race these bikes in the BOTTs series.
Now even at my brisk street riding
pace, I did not nearly get up to the
speeds that these boys will reach on
the straights, and believe me after a
few laps you are going to find it hard
to hang on because you are 100%
directly in the winds way. Yes it’s good
at legal highway speeds but having
almost 200 HP on a naked is not for
the faint hearted and it’s almost impossible
to stick to high way speeds,
never mind that I was still in a suburb
and in 2nd gear. It is going to be good
to watch the racing and I for sure
will be at the first race to see the end
result at the finish line, maybe on our
tighter tracks Jos might have a good
idea here.
We’ve already covered the launch
of this bike where we shared all the
technical attributes and we ran the
comparative test last issue against
its direct competitors where it was
the quickest naked around the track,
which even riding it on the road for
the little I did, you can feel the thoroughbred
DNA of its racing linage
shine through. I liked the TFT Dash,
especially at night, I’ve now ridden
Ducati’s enough that I can scroll
through the menus intuitively. But it
does take you a while to live with one
for that to become second nature.
They all follow a similar operations
menu and no I’m not being sarcastic
here, but it is Italian after all .
In summary, at R307k it’s almost
a R60k saving from the S model and
truthfully on normal streets you’d be
hard pressed to find the advantage
that the S model would bring you
with the Ohlins, but then again those
gold forks do shine nicely in the light,
and that is what these street fighters
are all about in my eyes, perfect
posing bikes for the posers, so make
mine an S.
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FIRST RIDE
BMW
F 900 R
We did the launch for the R and the XR a few
issues ago, but what’s it like to live with the
900 R for a few days?
BMW is wanting to appeal to
a younger buyer with this
bike that is very apparent,
the design is striking and
the way the headlight with
its daytime running lights blends into
the tank with the multi-function TFT
dash. Even this blue one we rode is
a sign of what the future holds for
the brand. I featured my Dad’s R90S
in last month’s Distinguished Gentlemen’s
ride and in truth, when I
parked the two next to one another,
separated by almost 50 years and
only a few cc’s you realize how far
biking has come. Just think about it,
in truth comparing this entry level to
the R90S, if I did like for like to what
that bike represented back then,
we should be parking a full blown
S1000RR next to it, I mean the R90S
won at Daytona all those years back
in the big bike class and here we are
50 years on and the entry level bike is
better in every way to the old girl, but
I digress.
So we delved into the technicalities
when we launched the bike two
issues ago, so I just want to stress
the few things I picked up while riding
it for two weeks.
1.On continued highway use I missed
a small fairing, even for commuting,
some wind deflection would be better
2.I loved the fact that I could change
the TFT dash to give lean angles and
TC use and braking used, only problem
with this feature I was always
playing silly buggers.
3.The quick shifter I’d opt not to run,
it’s too notchy or the setting was just
not right, I preferred riding old school
with clutch and blipping myself on
down changes. The clutch and gear
selection is so light it’s a pleasure.
4.At R196 700.00, is it an entry bike?
It is brimming with riding aids, I
thought I’d rather have a plain and
simple bike for R40k less, maybe that
will sell more? SA normally likes full
spec bikes and cars.
For similar money, you can get a
GS which gives you a much broader
riding application, but then again,
your bike just will never look at cool
as this R roadster.
Basic engine architecture remains
the same as the F 850 GS parallel-twin
powerplant, though the F
900 sees an increase in cylinder bore
by 2mm, bumping displacement to
895cc in comparison to 853cc. Likewise,
the new powerplant sees additional
tweaks, including a redesigned
cylinder head for better flow, forged
pistons, an increased compression
ratio of 13.1:1, and updated fuel
mapping. The result? A powerplant
that BMW claims is worthy of 99 hp
at 8,500 rpm. For reference, that’s 10
percent more powerful than the 90 hp
BMW says the F 850 GS produces.
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DRAGQUEEN
How Angelle Sampey became the world’s most successful female drag racer –
and is still beating blokes at 50!
By Phil West
Pics by Vance & Hines & Harley-Davidson
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On August 9, two days
after her 50th birthday,
American drag
racing legend Angelle
(pronounced ‘On-jell’)
Sampey won the Pro Stock final at
the Indianapolis Nationals, beating
Chris Bostick by almost a 10th
of a second.
It was her 43rd career victory
in a class dominated by men and
her first in four years. She’s also
been three times national champion
in a country where drag racing
is both huge and fiercely competitive.
And she did it by posting
a time of just 6.88secs over the
standing quarter (by comparison,
a stock S1000RR will do it in
about 10) aboard her incredibly
trick, factory-supported, Vance &
Hines-prepared Harley-Davidson
FXDR (see boxout) producing a
mind-warping 400bhp.
Not bad for a former Cajun
‘teenage beauty queen’ who then
became a nurse and actually retired
from the sport a decade ago
to start a family before returning
in 2014…
For those unfamiliar with US
drag racing, Sampey’s story is no
flash in the pan – and also follows
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a path few expect. Hailing from the
deep south in Louisiana she started
racing dirt bikes at six: “My parents
tried everything to get me off the
bike when I was about 13,” she says.
“They thought it was fun and cute
when I was a little kid but when I was
coming home with cuts and bruises
all over my legs my mom said, ‘That’s
it. I’ve had enough. We have a son.
We want a daughter.’”
Angelle’s brother Rickie had
been supposed to become the bike
racer. Dad had sent him to motocross
school in California while pretty,
teenage Angelle was thrust instead
into beauty pageants by her mum,
determined ‘to make a girl out of
her’. Tom boy Angelle put up the inevitable
fight. Then she realised pageants
were really just another form
of competition. “I said, yeah, I can do
this,” she remembers. Rickie, meanwhile,
though a decent racer, didn’t
have Angelle’s determined streak.
“He was happy racing and having
fun,” she says. “But if he didn’t win
it wasn’t that big a deal. For me, if I
didn’t win, I couldn’t breathe.”
But Angelle’s love for bikes
never went away. A few years later,
in 1991, Sampey was left in charge
of then-fiancé Kevin Seeling’s street
bike when the young marine went to
the Persian Gulf. Sampey had been
asked to merely turn the engine over
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that dig older
chicks...
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every once in a while. Instead she took
it to the local drag strip. Then, after
then taking off the Kawasaki GPz’s
road bits and bolting on a wheelie bar
and air-shifter, a racer was born. Or
rather, two were. Even Seeling was
converted. “He got a little aggravated
at first,” Sampey remembers. “But
then he came with me to the track and
fell in love with it.”
The first local races were supported
by her job as a nurse. “I worked
the night shift and we had the big
dry-erase boards. I’d stand there and
practice my signature. They asked:
‘What are you doing?’ And I’d say, ‘I’m
going to sign autographs one day.’
They’d laugh but I was serious. There
was nobody or nothing that could tell
me I wasn’t going to be a professional
drag racer.”
But the real ‘game-changer’
came a little while later when, three
days short of graduating as a nurse,
a storm flooded Sampey’s house,
ruining all her possessions except
the bike. Her response? Gambling
everything by selling the bike to raise
money to attend the Frank Hawley
Drag Racing School in Florida.
It was there she met instructor
George Bryce of the Star Racing team,
the man who, over the next 30 years,
is credited most with the promotion
and success of not just Sampey but of
Pro Stock drag racing itself.
Initially, Sampey made Bryce focus
on her talent rather than her looks or
gender by showing up with a Batman
hat pulled down over her face and by
wearing an unflattering T-shirt. Her
first runs were good enough to attract
Bryce’s interest and encouragement.
Then she ran run after run before
eventually setting a new school record.
A partnership that would last for
almost 20 years was born and, quickly,
Sampey would also show Bryce that
she could also use her hair, makeup
and charm to create an image that
would help attract sponsorship. Those
pageant days had proved useful after
all.
“I knew if I was going to jump
in with both feet on a little bitty girl
riding a motorcycle it was going to be
something special,” Bryce said later.
Sampey had proved she was it.
Bryce also later recalled a conversation
the two had before Sampey
made her debut in the ‘big league’
NHRA championships in 1996:
“She said she first wanted to win
Angelle’s Roll of Honour
1996 Makes NHRA debut and wins on fourth outing. Seventh overall
1997 Full season. Wins all-star invitational event
1998 Runner-up in Pro Stock all-star event
1999 Second in overall standings
2000 Wins NHRA Pro Stock championship with five wins
2001 Wins NHRA Pro Stock championship with seven wins
2002 Wins third consecutive NHRA Pro Stock championship
2003 Three wins
2004 Four wins
2005 Two wins
2006 Three wins
2007 One win
2008 0 wins
2009 Retires
2014 Returns to Pro Stock
2015 Limited schedule, one runner-up finish
2016 First win since 2007
2017 Full season, 2 x 4ths
2018 Full season
2019 Joins V&H Harley-Davidson, four races
2020 Wins 43rd victory
Other Women in drag
Although Angelle is famously
the ‘Winningest female in
professional motosport history’
thanks to her 43 career wins,
there are surprisingly more
women racers in drag racing,
particularly in the USA, than
you might think.
The pioneering women drag
racer was Shirley Muldowney
in car racing who in the ‘70s
and early ‘80s won the NHRA
Top Fuel championship three
times. Other successful female
drag car drivers include Erica
Enders-Stevens and Brittany
Force.
But there’s more than a few
women drag racing at the
top level in the States on two
wheels as well with Angie
Smith winning her first (although
so far only) Pro Stock
event in 2014 and Kelly Clontz
and Tiffany Butler also racing
at the highest level this year.
Angelle’s Pro Stock drag bike
‘It feels like I’m going 400mph’
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Drag racing in the US is huge, gets nationwide TV coverage
and benefits massively from the sponsorship bucks
that brings.
Both drag cars and bikes compete at the same events organised
by the same governing body, the NHRA (National
Hot Rod Association).
The top class for cars is ‘Top Fuel’, with multiple others
including ‘Funny Cars’ and ‘Pro Stock’ while that for bikes
today is ‘Pro Stock Motorcycles’.
As with Pro Stock’ cars, these are intended to resemble
production motorcycles but actually are 100% racing
machines with lightweight tubular chassis, bespoke, CNC
milled engines producing around 400bhp and replica(ish)
carbon bodywork. V-twins (Harley and Buell) can
be 160ci max (2622cc), fours (Suzuki and Kawasaki) 101ci
(1655cc).
Vance & Hines/Harley-Davidson’s current ‘FXDR’ is
essentially a rebodied version of the V&H ‘Street Rod’
introduced in 2017.
“Harley-Davidson was looking to make a change to their
Pro Stock Motorcycle program,” said Hines. “After that,
we put together a time table to get the bodies designed,
approved by NHRA, and then built.”
After spending most of her career on Suzuki fours
Sampey says it took a while to get used to the V-twin’s
torque plus the ‘FXDR’s small screen.
“We have this little-bitty windshield that is way different
than anything I had ever felt before. I didn’t feel that it
(the wind) was pushing me off the bike, but the sensation
of how fast I was going was finally there. I’ve had people
in the past ask me what it feels like to go nearly 200 mph.
When you’re behind a fairing, you don’t really feel the
wind. Now I do. It feels like I’m going 400mph.”
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a round, then a race, and in about five
years, a championship,” he said. “And
she wanted to have a Suzuki dealership,
a red, six-speed Corvette and a
pet monkey. Within 24 months, she
had all of them.”
If that in itself is impressive, not
least because diminutive Sampey, at
just 5’1”, had to ride a machine that
weighed five times she did, those
early years were made even more
challenging by some male competitors
telling her to “Go back to the
kitchen where you belong.”
She responded in the best way
possible – with success. After winning
her fourth ever NHRA Pro Stock event
in 1996 she raced a full season the
following year. In 1999 she came second
in the series behind Matt Hines
of Vance & Hines fame. Then she won
the title three years in a row up to
2004 on her Winston-sponsored, Star
Racing Suzuki.
More wins, if not titles, followed,
finishing in the series top five for 12
consecutive years before, in 2010,
triggered by the loss of a sponsor and
motivated by the desire to be a mum,
she retired.
Sampey’s marriage to Seeling
had been short-lived, with another,
to former American footballer Nicky
Savoie, dissolved in the early 2000s,
but long-time boyfriend Seth Drago
was different.
“I said ‘I’ll marry you,’” she remembers
of Drago’s 2010 proposal
soon after the sponsorship bombshell.
“’But I want to get pregnant
right away…’”
Daughter Ava was the result,
in 2011, and for the next few years
Sampey focussed on being a wife,
mum and running their aquarium
business before, in 2014, George
Bryce came calling once more.
That first comeback was shortlived
– Sampey lacerating her
Achille’s tendon in a freak accident
at the fourth round. But after five
months of rehab she came back and
was fastest at the 2016 season opener
and posted another win.
Along with her talent, Sampey’s
popularity hadn’t dwindled over the
intervening years either. In an online
poll of fans’ favourite riders, while
four-time defending champion, Andrew
Hines, Matt’s younger brother,
received just 0.7per cent of the vote
and second placed Steve Johnson got
5.4, Angelle was the runaway winner
with a whopping 73.3per cent. No
wonder they call Sampey the saviour
of Pro Stock.
The reward, in 2019, was a callup
by the series-leaders and long
time great rivals Vance & Hines and
their Harley-Davidson team, initially
on a four-race deal.
“It was kind of a no-brainer,”
Andrew Hines said at the time. “Harley
has been picking on us the last
few years, last decade really, to have
a female on the bike and Angelle
does such a good job with media and
racing a motorcycle that she was a
great fit.”
And although initially a tough
transition, switching to the twin-cylinder
Harley after a whole career
on four-cylinder Suzukis, Sampey
learned quickly and finished the
season seventh overall, earning a
full-year deal for 2020.
“Harley-Davidson loves her,”
said team co-owner Terry Vance at
the time. “They love her attitude and
the obvious passion she has, and her
dedication to be the best she can be.
Personally, I’m so happy with her
I can’t tell you. She’s great for the
sport and great for Harley-Davidson
and Vance & Hines and I think
next year, we’ll be able to win some
rounds and win some races.”
Now she has, proving once again
she is the drag queen.
Oh, and by the way, if Ava grows
up anything like her mum, bikesport
had better watch out!
THE DEFINING MOMENT
Joan Mir took his maiden MotoGP victory at Valencia earlier in November,
his teammate Alex Rins finished in second place, giving Suzuki their first
1-2 finish since 1982. This will be the race to remember and look back at
for years to come.
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THE
VERNEUK PAN
By Brian Cheyne
The story I am about to tell you is partly
fact and partly speculation, but it is a
good story nonetheless.
When Neil Armstrong
entered the lunar
module to go to the
moon, he had with him
a small box of personal
belongings. Obviously, all items had
to be recorded but it is believed that
Armstrong had some undisclosed
items with him. Probably items that
reminded him of his daughter Karen
“Muffie” Armstrong who passed away
at the age of two and a half. Once on
the moon, Armstrong was allowed
to switch off all communication for
about twelve minutes to be by himself
in complete silence. He walked
to the edge of a crater and left some
of his personal items there. We will
never know what he left, or what
went through his mind in that short
period, yet every time he looked up at
the moon, he felt a connection with
whatever he left there. With this story,
the Stars and Dust tour to Verneukpan
was born. It was the brainchild
of Jacques Koning, a physician from
Pretoria. He was involved in a massive
motorcycle accident at the beginning
of the year that nearly ended his life
and wanted to undertake this almost
spiritual journey to Verneukpan.
We would travel to Kenhardt to
stay two nights and then head to the
pan. There, a pyramid shaped monument
was erected and left open at
the top. Each rider had to bring along
a memory, good and bad, and place
it in the monument’s cavity. We were
to take our twelve minutes too, and
just reflect on the contents of our box.
That way, when we visit the monument
again, we will feel a connection as it
contains a part of us.
I own a BMW G 310 GS and I
thought the ride would be a good test
for the little GS. However, Zontes
offered me their baby adventure bike,
the 310-T, for this epic trip. This was
the same bike that featured in the
Adventure “lite” article in the August
edition of Superbike magazine.
For this trip, I asked Zontes to
add a luggage system to the bike as
I had quite a lot to pack. The luggage
system that Zontes offers is of quite
remarkable quality. The panniers are
lined and lockable. More importantly,
after spending 1700 km on the road
and on the pan itself, they were completely
dustproof and waterproof.
The Zontes 310-T looks every bit
like an adventure bike but it shares
the same mechanics as the road going
versions. So, it is essentially a street
bike with camo cargo-pants. Verneukpan
is around 1000 km from my house
and I was about to embark on an epic
journey on a tiny 310 cc bike. Some
people just shook their heads, yet I set
out to prove that you can have adventure
style motorcycling at an affordable
price. I was not about to admit
insanity.
A few things you need to consider
though is that you have to change your
attitude to travel on a bike like this.
You have to measure your distances
carefully as your average speed will
be considerably slower than normal.
The Zontes gets quite buzzy at around
the 120 km/h mark, so you must
either do 110 km/h or 130 km/h. At
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Sunset on Verneukpan
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Vanrhyns Pass
Flowers in Nieuwoudtville
The bikers arrive at Kenhardt hotel
The Zontes 310T on the road
Coffee near Biesiesvlei
Putsonderwater
higher speeds I felt really sorry for
the bike, so I settled around the 110
km/h mark. At this point many people
would simply bow out, but I was
adamant to do this trip going slow. I
left with a friend on a Tiger 955i and
we headed west and stopped in Sannieshof
for coffee and scones. The
one thing about the Zontes is that
people are curious about the bike.
Wherever we stopped people asked
about it and were surprised to hear
this is a Chinese product.
As we headed further west, I was
reminiscing about the content of my
little blue box that I would place in
the monument. My dad was a land
surveyor and every time I passed one
of the familiar trigonometric beacons
at the side of the road, I think of him.
How he worked tirelessly to provide
for us. I would remember the first
motorcycle he bought me. He was a
good human being and, in my box, I
had a memory of him.
We rode to Kathu and booked into
an overnight accommodation. So far,
the little Zontes held up, apart from
the hugger over the rear wheel. It
took a knock in the shootout ride to
Dullstroom and was probably not in
a good shape to start with. As it contains
the indicators, we could not just
discard it, and we had to employ a
few cable-ties to ensure it stayed put.
The next morning, we set off for
Kenhardt. We were one of the first to
arrive and we checked into the Kenhardt
hotel. Later that day the bikes
started trickling in, and soon the
hotel was full of very tired bikers. The
next day I went to one of my bucket-list
places, namely Putsonderwater.
It is really a one-horse town
and if you remove the two signboards
that proclaim the town’s name it will
probably no longer attract visitors.
On Heritage Day, we began the
exodus to Verneukpan. We were 77
souls in total. The gravel road to the
pan is in a fairly decent state but I
still felt sorry for the little Zontes.
With its small front wheel and limited
suspension travel the road proved
challenging. Yet, it soldiered on. We
went through many gates that had to
be opened and shut again. It was as if
the gate makers were playing a game
with us, as each gate had a different
opening mechanism. After what felt
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Aerial view of the campsite
Straight road for miles
Camping under the stars on the
Verneukpan
The Verneukpan
bell
like an eternity, we were suddenly
on the pan. We rode to the campsite
that had the most rudimentary
facilities. It was baking hot, and I had
a quick nap under what little shade
there was while we waited for the
others to arrive.
I took the Zontes onto the pan
and that was an amazing experience.
So much open space and completely
flat. Malcom Campbell tried to set a
world land speed record here in 1929
and I can understand why he chose
this location. I went as fast as the
little Zontes could go with nothing to
run into for miles on end. As the other
bikes arrived, the sun was setting,
and we just rode around on the pan.
In the final minutes of sunlight one of
our party had a huge accident, hitting
a bump on the pan which sent his GS
high into the air. It landed on the rider,
seriously hurting him. Dr Koning
was on hand to assist. Ironically, he
worked in Kenhardt for a few years
and the only times he visited the pan
was to fetch a patient. And here he
was again, looking after a patient.
The boy was airlifted out and we
were left thinking even more about
the significance of our monument. It
will now forever be a monument to a
fallen rider.
The next morning, we headed
back to Kenhardt again and from
there I rode with two ladies to Cape
Town. This is a part of our country
that I have never ridden through and
I must admit that I still have so much
to see. Hopefully there will be more
tours in my future, and I will gladly
take a Zontes again. You ride slower
and appreciate more.
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By Roland Brown
TRIUMPH THE LAST 30 YEARS
The unexpected invitation on Triumph-headed notepaper had been intriguing, but I was not expecting much when I
arrived at an anonymous building on an industrial estate outside Hinckley in the English Midlands in June 1990.
After all, Triumph had finally
gone bust seven years
earlier; a final nail in the
coffin of a once-proud
British motorcycle industry
that had struggled through the 1980s
in terminal decline.
Strange as it now seems, back
in those pre-internet days there had
barely been a rumour that something
was stirring at Triumph. We knew the
failed firm had been bought from the
liquidator by a builder. The site of its
famous old factory at Meriden, 25km
to the south-west, was a housing
estate with roads called Bonneville
Close and Daytona Drive.
I had no suspicion that anything
exciting was going on at Hinckley,
despite having spent many days at a
proving ground just down the road,
speed-testing the latest, mostly Japanese
bikes. There I had occasionally
glimpsed a prototype rotary-engined
Norton, but no Triumphs. A Triumph
dealer had been using new spare
parts to assemble small numbers of
750cc Bonnevilles, antiques compared
to modern GPZs and GSX-Rs.
But that had ceased. Triumph was
dead.
Then, on that June morning in
1990, a man in a grey uniform opened
a door in that Hinckley industrial
building to reveal a remarkable
scene. Inside Triumph’s new factory
were rows of huge, state-of-the-art
manufacturing machines. There were
also two motorcycles, prototypes of a
new range of three- and four-cylinder
superbikes with capacities ranging
from 750 to 1200cc.
The set-up was mind-blowing
and the bikes were hugely impressive.
Their liquid-cooled engines and
steel-framed chassis were modern,
inspired by Kawasaki’s GPZ900R, the
top superbike of a few years earlier.
The faired sports-tourer and naked
triple looked almost production
ready, though the faired bike’s paintwork
was split between red and white
to show alternative colour choices.
This was clearly not some under-funded
enterprise, inspired by
a mix of patriotism and passion for
motorcycling, like several previous
revival attempts. It was a hugely serious
operation that had been years in
the making. Meeting John Bloor, the
company’s 47-year-old owner and
driving force, confirmed that view –
although despite his obvious brains
and track record I still struggled to
understand his incentive for investing
so much effort and money in an industry
with such a disastrous record.
Three decades after that June
day – still the most memorable of my
career – it’s perhaps Bloor’s vision
and belief that stand out most of all.
Triumph is now a global concern that
employs more than 2000 people and
last year produced around 65,000
bikes. Perhaps the man who made it
all happen is the only one who might
have predicted that level of success
all those years ago.
In 1990 Bloor and his small team
had already spent several years and
tens of millions of pounds building
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and equipping the factory, and developing
a range of bikes. He’d been
to Germany and Japan to invest in
ultra-modern tooling, determined to
prevent the quality control problems
that had plagued Triumphs produced
at Meriden on ancient, worn-out
machinery.
This had all been done in great
secrecy, as related by Gary McDonnell,
a former Meriden worker who
was among Bloor’s first employees
at Triumph. “After the old factory
closed, a lot of us used to meet up
and some ex-Meriden people were
at the new Triumph factory,” McDonnell
recalled. “They were tight-lipped
about it, but I was told there was a
job for me there if I wanted one.
“I started around Christmas 1987
and joined a very small, dedicated
team of about 12 people. It was the
most fantastic, memorable and exciting
part of my whole work career.
It was a brand new factory – well
financed, clinically clean and cavernous.
With the designs I saw, I knew
this was the start of the resurrection
of the British motorcycle industry
– something very, very special was
about to unfold.”
That small team was hard at
work. The purchase of Triumph had
included an R&D department project,
code-named Diana. “But when
we appraised it we found it wasn’t
viable, so we had to do something
else,” Bloor said. “I was told that
they’d spent x pounds on it but within
two months of buying the firm we’d
arranged to go and have a look at
how people who do it better operate.
We came back, scrapped the lot and
started again.”
Bloor’s early models were
designed using a modular concept
similar to one proposed by legendary
BSA-Triumph engineer Bert Hopwood
shortly before that firm went
bust in 1973. This involved the majority
of engine and chassis parts being
shared between several models, substantially
reducing development and
production costs. The system allowed
one basic engine and chassis layout
to generate six first-year models,
from naked 750cc Trident triple to
faired 1200cc Trophy sports-touring
four.
Those first production Triumphs
created a stir when unveiled at Intermot
in Cologne in autumn 1990, and
even more excitement at the home
Birmingham show shortly afterwards.
“Before the show doors were
opened there was a terrific pounding
with the chant, ‘Triumph, Triumph’
echoing around the halls,” recalled
McDonnell. “The doors burst open
and everyone made a beeline for the
Triumph stand. Blokes were jumping
on the bikes and punching the air,
shouting, ‘They’re back!’ It was quite
an emotional time.”
The bikes reached showrooms
early in 1991, to enthusiastic reviews
– I and others judged the powerful,
fine-handling Trophy 1200 an improbably
close rival to Kawasaki’s mighty
ZZ-R1100. The Trident 900 that
followed later in the year was a lively
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1994 Triumph Speed Triple
1993 Triumph
Tiger 900
1993 Triumph
Daytona 1200
Triumph Trophy Prototype 1990
naked triple, though the short-stroke
750cc variant was less impressive.
The modular concept, though largely
successful, had its limitations.
Bloor’s fledgling firm soon established
a reputation for solid if unspectacular
engineering. But things
were far from easy for Triumph. As
well as facing cynicism from motorcyclists
who had seen previous revival
attempts fail, the firm encountered
resistance from British-bike loyalists
who thought the multi-cylinder
machines too Japanese. Some cynics
even claimed Triumph had links with
Kawasaki.
Sales in Germany, the first export
market, were disappointing. And the
modular format made Triumph’s
Daytona sports models uncompetitive,
especially when Honda’s Fire-
Blade arrived in 1992. “That was the
tough year,” recalls Bruno Tagliaferri,
who had joined the firm from
Honda UK in 1990 as sales manager,
and would stay until retiring last year.
“The honeymoon was over. The press
had been very positive but became
more critical, saying the bikes lacked
style and were top-heavy.”
Triumph proved to be good
listeners and fast to react. The
Daytona was successfully revamped
with more power and bright yellow
paintwork. By 1994 sales had risen
from the first year’s 2414 to over
10,000, boosted by the launch of the
first Speed Triple. The 885cc naked
three-cylinder sportster was essentially
just a stripped-down Daytona,
but its raw look and character hit the
mark and gave Triumph a stronger
identity, aided by memorable advertising
featuring a Rottweiler.
Another important advance came
in 1995, with the start of exports
to America and the launch of the
Thunderbird 900 triple, the firm’s
first classically styled model. Bloor
had been cautious about exploiting
Triumph’s history. He was desperate
to earn his company a reputation for
modern, high-quality engineering;
and to shed the marque’s old reputation
for unreliability. The Thunderbird’s
success – it was by far
Triumph’s best selling model in 1995,
contributing over 5700 of the total
production of 13,500 – confirmed the
brand’s enduring appeal.
Triumph went to the next level
in 1997, with two very different
models. The T595 Daytona sportster
and naked T509 Speed Triple were
Hinckley’s first bikes to abandon the
modular concept. The Daytona, in
particular, was a major statement:
the first ever British super-sports
bike designed to compete head-on
with the Japanese and Italians. Its
955cc three-cylinder engine, tuned
with help from Lotus Engineering,
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produced 128bhp. Triumph’s traditional
steel spine frame was replaced by
twin oval-section aluminium tubes,
holding a single-sided aluminium
swing-arm.
The Daytona handled well and was
stylish and fast. Despite its confusing
T595 name (taken from its factory
code number, a Meriden tradition) it
was a big success, contributing almost
half that year’s best yet production
of just over 15,000 bikes. When its
aluminium frame was found to be
prone to cracking near the headstock,
Triumph turned potential disaster into
a PR success with a policy of rapid
replacement, and earned customer
loyalty by often adding a free service
or fresh tyres at the same time.
Triumph’s other, more surprising
success story of 1997 was the T509
Speed Triple, a revamped version of
the original naked sportster. With its
new pair of bug-eye headlights the
rowdy T509 surfed the streetfighter
craze with perfect timing. Two
years later Triumph attacked the
sports-tourer market with the Sprint
ST, which held a detuned, 955cc triple
motor from the Daytona in the firm’s
first twin-beam aluminium frame.
Magazines including the influential
Motorrad in Germany voted it the best
in class, ahead of Honda’s yardstick
VFR800FI – another landmark
achievement.
Further proof that Triumph was
moving in the right direction came in
2000, when it posted a profit for the
first time. A year later the firm finally
launched a retro-styled parallel twin,
complete with iconic Bonneville name
and unashamedly nostalgic look. The
new 790cc twin made a modest 61bhp
and barely out-performed its inspiration
from the late ’60s, but it handled
well and was fast enough for its target
audience.
By this time Triumph was going
from strength to strength, with
production up to 29,082 in 2001. But
the following March saw a major
setback when much of the factory was
destroyed by one of Britain’s largest
ever industrial fires. Production was
halted for five months, costing more
than 20,000 bikes and many millions
of pounds’ worth of sales. But nobody
was hurt, and the insurance payout
helped Triumph move more quickly
than had been planned into a larger,
more modern T2 building on an
adjoining site.
BrunoTagilaferri
After that blip, production
resumed its upward direction, and
was boosted the following year when
Triumph opened the first of three
factories in Thailand. Meanwhile
the Hinckley R&D department was
preparing a string of outstanding
models for very different areas of
the market, starting with the big,
bold 2.3-litre Rocket III that was the
world’s largest-capacity production
roadster in 2004.
Triumph’s approach in this
period was influenced by the work
of consultancy firm McKinsey, who
had been hired by Bloor to give a
thorough appraisal of his business.
Perhaps their most valuable advice
Hinckley Factory 1992
was to focus on models that Triumph
did best and was known for – which
meant triples and twins. A planned
four-cylinder superbike was dropped
despite being close to production
readiness.
In 2006 Triumph ended its string
of under-performing four-cylinder
middleweight sports models and
launched the Daytona 675 – a slim,
agile and most of all unique triple.
The following year’s naked Street
Triple derivative was another success
that confirmed Triumph’s ability
to make high-quality bikes with
distinctive character. It contributed
to 2008’s record production total of
53,890, which passed the highest
John Bloor
Triumph Factory - Thailand
figure ever achieved by Meriden in
the glory years of the ’60s.
Although the global recession
that followed shortly afterwards affected
every manufacturer, Triumph
emerged from it in better shape
than most rivals. In recent years the
firm has been well placed to exploit
the popularity of retro bikes, as
its back-catalogue of stylish bikes
and famous names has combined
with technical advances that allow
powerful, smooth-running parallel
twins. The Bonneville family was
overhauled in 2016 and has since
generated outstanding models in the
Thruxton R, Bobber, Scrambler 1200
and Speed Twin, to name just four.
And Triumph’s growth has not
been all about new metal. Bloor was
initially reluctant to get involved in
racing, but a series for the Speed
and Street Triple proved popular. The
Daytona 675 has been very successful,
notably winning the Supersport
TT, British Supersport title and Daytona
200 in 2014, and powering the
765cc Moto2 grid last season. The
firm held a string of Triumph Live
events, and in 2017 opened a Visitor
Experience at Hinckley comprising
museum, shop and café.
Triumph has long been profitable,
and turned over more than
£500k last year, but the business
challenge is constantly evolving, not
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least through increasing globalisation.
In January, CEO Nick Bloor (one of
John’s two sons, the other of whom,
Adrian, runs Bloor Homes) announced
a long-term partnership with Indian
giant Bajaj Auto, to develop engines
and bikes from 200-750cc. In February
he confirmed that all volume production
will soon be moved to Thailand,
leaving the Hinckley factory for prototypes
and factory customs, as well as
an expanded R&D facility.
Inevitably the pandemic that
spread worldwide shortly afterwards
has affected those plans. This year’s
sales will be seriously hit, and bike
firms including Triumph might take
years to recover fully. But if any
manufacturer looks in good shape to
weather the storm, it’s possibly the
historic yet relatively youthful British
marque that was reborn in such stunning
fashion 30 years ago.
John Bloor – Mr Triumph
Triumph’s modern story is one of
teamwork over more than three
decades, but most of all it’s about
one man: the remarkable John Stuart
Bloor, or JSB as he’s known to staff
at Hinckley, some of whom have been
there since the earliest days. Bloor
founded Triumph Motorcycles Limited
after buying the old marque from the
liquidator, and still owns it although
he’s now well into his seventies (he
turns 77 on 16 June) and spends less
time at the factory.
Bloor is a fascinating, down-toearth
character who became hugely
successful from a humble background.
A coal-miner’s son from a village
in Derbyshire, in England’s East
Midlands, he left school at 15 to work
for a local builder. Two years later he’d
become a self-employed plasterer,
and by the age of 20 he’d built his first
complete house, already showing the
combination of sharp mind and appetite
for hard work for which he would
become renowned.
Bloor Homes grew rapidly to become
one of the UK’s largest privately
owned house-building firms, and by
the early ’80s its boss found himself
featuring above the likes of Elton John
in lists of Britain’s richest people, his
fortune running to over £100 million.
But Bloor wasn’t satisfied with that,
and looked for a new business opportunity.
When purchasing the Meriden
site for housing he became aware that
the Triumph name was available, and
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bought it for a reported £150,000.
He had ridden motorcycles in his
youth but his experience of Triumph
was largely negative, as he later
recalled: “When I was 16 I used to
have a Tiger Cub. To be honest I didn’t
think a lot of it, as water used to get
into the points. I’d be coming back
home from work on a winter’s night
at 6pm and was always having to pull
over and start fiddling with the points.
I wasn’t best pleased!”
A motorcycle firm appealed, he
said, partly because its products are
tangible and, unlike houses, have
the potential to be exported worldwide.
(As he has proved, they can
also be made reliable.) “Bikes are an
end product and I like end products.
They’re engineering and I like engineering.
There’s no bloody ego trip for
me,” he told me on that day in June
1990. That is undoubtedly true. Bloor
is uninterested in personal publicity,
and has barely agreed to an interview
with any journalist since. He rarely
appears at Triumph functions, and
used a disguise to visit bike shows
anonymously.
He is famously blunt speaking
but inspires great loyalty. “He’s an
immense figure – a real one-off with
incredible vision and commitment,”
says Bruno Tagliaferri. “He has a
tremendous memory – he knew
everyone on the site – and a great
knowledge of the product, engineering,
sourcing… He’d always know
how much parts would cost. He’s a
very good reader of people. He’s also
a good listener but once he makes a
decision he sticks to it.”
Many have wondered why Bloor
has not been knighted, though he
was honored with an OBE (Order of
the British Empire) for services to the
motorcycle industry in 1995. He does
not have a lavish lifestyle despite last
year being reportedly worth almost £2
billion. His precise wealth and motivation
might be hard to evaluate, but
what’s for sure is that very few people
have been more important to motorcycling
over the last three decades
and more.
Hinckley Hits
Trophy 1200, 1991 – Triumph’s powerful
sports-touring four was remarkably
competitive against the mighty
ZZ-R1100 and other rivals. It made
125bhp with strong midrange, and
1998 Triumph Sprint ST 2001 Triumph Bonneville
2000 Triumph
TT600
its steel-framed chassis gave sound
handling.
Speed Triple, 1994 – The original
Speed Triple was essentially a Daytona
900 with fairing removed, and with
a five- instead of six-speed gearbox.
The Triple’s raw look and character,
backed by clever advertising, made it
a hit.
Thunderbird 900, 1995 – Released
in time to lead Triumph’s
attack on the States, the firm’s first
retro model combined its softly
tuned, 69bhp triple motor with high
bars, mouth-organ tank badge,
heavily finned motor and peashooter
pipes.
T595 Daytona, 1997 – Hinckley’s
first purpose-built sportster proved
the Brits could build a competitive
superbike. The classy 955cc Daytona
2006 Triumph Daytona 675
1995 Triumph Thunderbird
combined its 128bhp triple engine
with a sweet-handling aluminium-framed
chassis.
T509 Speed Triple, 1997 – Three
years after the original Speed Triple
came the aluminium framed T509
with its bug-eye headlights. It showed
just what a naked sports bike was all
about, and earned a cult following.
Sprint ST, 1998 – A high-quality
blend of 955cc triple motor and Triumph’s
first alloy beam-framed chassis.
Voted the year’s top sports-tourer
ahead of Honda’s VFR by Motorrad
and others, it was arguably Hinckley’s
first class-leading model.
Bonneville, 2001 – The 790cc, aircooled
Bonnie resembled a late-Sixties
T120, down to two-tone paint
and “eyebrow” tank badge. Its 61bhp
output and 205kg weight made it no
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2011 Triumph Tiger 800
2016 Triumph Thruxton R
quicker than the old Bonneville, but
that didn’t prevent its popularity.
Rocket III, 2004 – Triumph’s
growing confidence was shown by the
outrageous Rocket, whose 2.3-litre,
140bhp triple motor was motorcycling’s
biggest powerplant. A sound
chassis made it fun rather than
scary, and the latest Rocket is even
better.
Daytona 675, 2006 – After years
of struggle to produce a competitive
middleweight four, Triumph got
everything right with the Daytona
675, which matched the Japanese
for speed and handling, and added
unique three-cylinder charm.
Street Triple, 2007 – Stripping off
the Daytona 675’s fairing and softening
its power delivery gave a quick,
light, sweet-handling and competitively
priced naked roadster that
appealed to riders from novices to
grizzled veterans.
Tiger 800, 2011 – Triumph’s R&D
team worked with typical thoroughness
to develop a capable and
versatile middleweight adventure
triple, whose availability in road and
off-road focused versions continues
with the current Tiger 900.
Thruxton R, 2016 – Hinckley’s
first Thruxton predated the current
café-racer craze and became popular,
but it was the second-generation
model, part of a major Bonneville
family update, that hit the mark –
especially in high-spec R form.
Bonneville Bobber, 2017 – Triumph’s
growing design confidence
was highlighted by the Bobber, an
imaginative blend of 1200cc Bonneville
engine and apparently hard-tail
rear end that looked stunning and
handled improbably well.
Speed Twin, 2019 – Its namesake
sparked motorcycling’s twin-cylinder
era after World War II, and although
the modern Speed Twin can’t match
that impact its torquey engine and
fine handling show how far Triumph’s
parallel twins have come.
… And Misses
Daytona 1000, 1991 – Triumph’s
modular format meant the sporty
Daytona shared most engine parts
and its steel frame with softer models,
so the 119bhp four, like its 750cc
triple variant, struggled to compete
with purpose-built rivals.
TT600, 2000 – The 599cc
four-cylinder sportster initially suffered
from poor fueling, and never
matched its Japanese rivals for
performance or popularity. Triumph
found success only after swapping
four pots for three with the Daytona
675.
Thunderbird LT, 2014 – Triumph
has been attacking the big cruiser
market since launching the Thunderbird
in 2009, but neither that 1597cc
parallel twin nor its descendants
have cracked a sector that is still
dominated by US-built V-twins.
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Mick Doohan
THE YEAR THAT MADE
RAINEY AND DOOHAN
The 1990 world championship ushered in the Rainey/Doohan era, just as the 500s seemed on the verge of collapse,
with talk of replacing them with four-strokes.
Story: Mat Oxley
The 1990 500cc world championship
was a pivotal
season that ushered in a
new era. ‘King’ Kenny Roberts
established his Marlboro-bankrolled
‘Evil Empire’, Wayne
Rainey won his first world title, Mick
Doohan won his first grand prix, Kevin
Schwantz had his best season so
far and reigning world champ Eddie
Lawson, the man who had dominated
the 1980s, didn’t win a single race.
The action at the front – Rainey,
Schwantz, Doohan and Wayne
Gardner was thrilling – but while
the 500 superheroes went about
their business the 500cc class came
closer than ever to extinction. The
1990 season was the summer of the
highside – a perfect storm created by
precipitous power curves and tricky
tyres – which kept the Clinical Mobile
busier than ever.
Injured riders depleted what was
already a half-empty grid: just ten
finishers at Laguna Seca, where the
last man home was lapped three
times by winner Rainey, and only nine
finishers at Rijeka, where the last finisher
took the flag four laps down. No
wonder there were demands from on
high that the 500s be axed in favour
of something safer and cheaper, like
TT F1 bikes or superbikes.
The season started with a fiscal
changing of the guard: ‘King’ Kenny
snatched the Marlboro millions from
factory Yamaha team boss Giacomo
Agostini, whose association with
Marlboro went back to the mid-
1970s, when Ago was the first motorcycle
racer to carry tobacco branding.
The deal also made Team Roberts
Yamaha’s number one squad, while
Agostini quit racing, leaving the paddock
that had been home since the
early 1960s.
Ago had made desperate attempts
to keep Roberts’ hands off the
Marlboro money, the richest budget
in bike racing. He offered Rainey $3
million to leave Roberts and join his
team for 1990, doubling the grid’s
biggest salary at a stroke. “Ago has
got more money than sense,” hissed
Roberts.
Rainey and Roberts were a double
act, so there was no way Rainey
was leaving. Once ‘King’ Kenny got
his hands on the Marlboro cash he
put Rainey and Lawson on 500s and
John Kocinski on 250s, with the
best technical back-up ever seen.
It wasn’t long before jealous rivals
came up with the ‘The Evil Empire’
tag.
No one was surprised when
Rainey ran away with the first two
GPs at Suzuka and Laguna, because
he hadn’t only swapped Lucky Strike
money for Marlboro money, he had
swapped Dunlop tyres for Michelins.
“I still haven’t got used to all the
drive I can get out of turns,” he said
after those victories. “And with the
tyres gripping better, they’re putting
more pressure on the suspension, so
I’m still figuring out how to set up the
bike.” Ominous talk!
This was Rainey’s and arch-rival
Schwantz’s third GP season.
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Wayne Rainey
Like Rainey, much was expected
of Schwantz, who had had a stellar
1989, thanks to Suzuki getting a lot
more power out of the RGV500 by
copying the Yamaha YZR500’s contra-rotating
crankshaft configuration.
Schwantz won six races in 1989 and
would’ve challenged for the title if the
RGV hadn’t broken in three, because
its engine internals weren’t up to the
power increase.
No doubt, Schwantz was going
to be a contender in 1990… but
didn’t help his cause by crashing
and breaking a wrist while chasing
Rainey at Laguna. The Texan came
back strongly a few weeks later, with
five victories from seven races in the
middle of the season, despite issues
with the 1990 RGV.
“It took longer than we wanted to
get the bike working well,” he said.
“Once we did that we could work on
putting some pressure on Wayne.
By keeping ahead of him in every
practice session I reckon we could
unsettle him into making a mistake.”
By the time they arrived in
Sweden for round 12 of 15 Schwantz
had closed the gap to 27 points. If
he could beat Rainey at the last four
races he might win the title. Instead
he crashed out at Anderstorp and
again at Brno, handing the crown to
his countryman.
Schwantz always admitted that
he didn’t have a very technical mind,
so he was unable to give the quality
of feedback that Rainey gave his
engineers.
“I don’t know why the bike is
working here,” he said after beating
Rainey by 11 seconds at the Nürburgring.
“It would be scary if I did!”
Team Roberts was unique in 500
GPs for pushing forward with all
kinds of new technology, from data
logging to chassis software and from
carbon brakes to upside-down forks.
The YZR500 may not have been the
best bike on the grid, but Roberts and
his engineers made it the best bike
to win the championship, using their
own know how.
Honda were never in the title
hunt in 1990. They had won the 1989
title thanks to Lawson and pricelessly
talented engineer Erv Kanemoto, but
Lawson went back to Yamaha with
the number-one plate.
“Honda and me just couldn’t
come to terms,” said the four-times
500 king. “Their offer was far below
what the other teams had offered,
plus they wanted me to do fourstroke
testing, the Suzuka Eight
Hours and this and that and the other.
I had Suzuki and Marlboro offering
me far, far more. So, shoot, if you’re
not wanted, it’s time to go.”
In 1990 Lawson went AWOL when
his brakes failed at 160mph during
U.S GP practice. “I came over the hill
and the brakes failed, then I forgot
whether the track goes left or right
and then this nun ran out in front of
me,” he joked. The injuries sustained
that day kept him home until mid
season.
Honda continued with their
1987 champ Gardner and Doohan,
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Rainey,
Roberts and
kosinski
who was still learning his way in
his second 500 season. The factory
had learned plenty from Lawson
and began the process of turning
the NSR500 into the motorcycle that
would dominate the 500 class for its
final decade. Most importantly they
retimed the NSR’s crankshaft, from
an even-spaced 90-degree firing configuration
to 180 degrees, which fired
cylinders in pairs to improve traction.
“During 1989 the engine character
caused a lot of what people
thought was a handling problem,”
said Kanemoto, who worked with
Gardner in 1990. “We got a big gain
with the 180, because the power hit
wasn’t so abrupt, so the rider could
start to open the throttle when the
bike was leaned over. A lot of that
was down to Eddie, because he’d
ridden the Yamaha, so he knew the
engine could be more friendly. I remember
saying to him at the start of
1990, you left one year too early! HRC
had their eyes opened – they realised
that this handling thing isn’t just the
chassis, it’s engine character too.”
Wayne Rainey, Marlboro Team
Roberts Yamaha YZR500
1990 victories: Suzuka, Laguna Seca,
Misano, Rijeka, Spa, Anderstorp,
Brno
500 world titles: 1990/1991/1992
“Going into 1990 I knew I was racing
to be world champion. Going into
1989 I hadn’t known that – I knew
I was going to be close but I didn’t
know exactly where. In 1990 I knew
I could race with them and I felt
everything was real close, so it was
down to the rider. I was going for the
championship from the first race.
“I signed a three-year with Kenny
that year, because I didn’t know what
the market was going to do, so I
might as well get in there while it was
good. I knew Kenny’s team was going
to be a big force and I wanted to be in
the team that was going places. Kenny
was always coming up with new
things – he wasn’t afraid to go out
testing and come up with some crazy
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ideas. That kept me excited. It wasn’t
like Yamaha gave you the bike and you
raced what you got – Yamaha gave us
a bike and we had to make it better. I
liked that.
“I don’t know which of my three
championships was best, they were all
quite different and special. That first
one in 1990 we dominated. It was my
first year on Michelins and I couldn’t
believe how easy the other guys had
been having it. When I got on those
tyres I was like, ‘So that’s how these
guys do it’.
Mick Doohan, Rothmans Honda
NSR500
1990 victories: Hungaroring
500cc world titles:
1994/1995/1996/1997/1998
“Hungary 1990 was a turning
point. That was the first time I was
given equal tyres and bike stuff. Back
then Michelin gave their ‘A’ tyres to
the established guys, then whoever
qualified best after that got one set of
good tyres for the race. Hungary was
the first weekend I’d had the good
tyres from the start and it was the
first weekend where everything was
looking good.
“Winning was a relief, that was
for sure. It was good to finally get one
under my belt, because in my first
season I had done my left hand, lost a
finger and broken an arm in off-season
testing.
“Initially the NSR wasn’t that
great, especially the 1989 bike which
would understeer, which is a pretty
polite word for it. The bike would lean
over but it wouldn’t turn. It didn’t do
a great deal of anything good and it
didn’t have a lot of feel. Then the NSR
began to evolve. The 1990 bike was
a step forward and it evolved further
during the season, so by the end of
that year we started to get it on track
to become the bike that led 500 development
for the rest of the decade.
“We started changing the steering
head height, the engine position,
the rake, a whole bunch of things.
Although it looked similar from the
outside it was a completely different
bike. It started to become a bike that I
had better feel for.”
Kevin Schwantz, Lucky Strike Suzuki
RGV500
1990 victories: Nurburgring, Salzburgring,
Assen, Le Mans, Donington
500cc world titles: 1993
Gardner followed by Doohan
Niall Mackenzie
“1990 was another of those years
when it didn’t quite come together.
Most of the time I raced 500s I was
compensating for inadequacies in
the motorcycle, for a slight miss in
the set-up. I’m not blaming it all on
the bike and the team, but on myself
as well. I think every lap I did stuff
a little different from the lap before,
just from having so little experience.
I didn’t start road racing until ’84, so
my learning curve was pretty steep.
“I was always the guy who rode a
softer sprung bike, because I wanted
to get a little more feel from it, so
I could go, ‘Okay, now it’s moving’,
rather than having it just go, Yaaak!
and throw you.
“Wayne had a lot of bad luck in
1990. In Italy he had his race bike
seize in Sunday morning warm-up.
Then he had a brake disc crack in
the race, just before it was stopped
early. Then he crashed at 190 kays in
Germany and broke a finger. I fell at
60 kays at Laguna and broke a wrist.
“I kinda screwed up 1990 when
I broke that wrist at the US GP. Laguna
was one of those tracks where
I always had shithouse luck. The
benchmark was always Wayne and
he was next to impossible to beat
there. I tried full body sacrifice to
try to beat him there and even that
didn’t work.”
67
Rainey and Doohan
Kevin Schwantz
Carl Fogarty
Niall Mackenzie, Lucky Strike Suzuki
RGV500
“When Ago lost the Marlboro
money to Kenny at end of 1989 I was
out of a job. At first I thought I won’t
be getting on a bike for less than a
hundred grand, but in the end I had
to ride for free and put a bit of my
own money into setting up a team
with Chas Mortimer and a couple of
reverse-cylinder TZ250s.
“Then [Kevin] Magee got hurt
at Laguna and a few days after we
got home I got a call from [Suzuki
team manager] Garry Taylor, ‘Could
you come to London for a meeting?’.
There was the loyalty thing to the
people who’d helped me with the
250s, but as a rider there was no way
I was going to turn down a factory
Suzuki ride.
“The Suzuki was so fickle, which
was probably why Kevin didn’t win
more championships. It was the
weirdest bike – a weapon some
weekends, a pig others. By the time
we got to Donington for the British
GP I’d had a couple of podiums and
I thought I might have a chance of
winning, because I could make any
bike work at Donington. But I couldn’t
ride the Suzuki there – it wouldn’t
turn, wouldn’t do anything I wanted
it to do.
“During that period I was always
aware I was surrounded by legends.
You’d finish some races with just
Rainey, Lawson and Schwantz ahead
of you. It was a special time: great
atmosphere, great characters and
brutal bikes.”
Carl Fogarty, ROC Honda NSR500
“Pier-Francesco Chili got hurt at Spa,
so I got the call from Serge Rosset’s
team. I came back from the Suzuka
8 Hours and went straight to Cadwell
Park to test the 500. This was the
Wednesday before the British GP at
Donington. I jumped on the bike and
loved it. I was flying around Cadwell,
thinking, ‘I’m going to win the British
GP!’.
“The bike reminded me bit of
68 SuperBike
the RC30. I think the geometry of the
RC30 was taken from the NSR, and
I had the same problem with both
bikes. At some circuits they were fantastic,
others they were horrendous. I
loved Donington, but when I rode the
500 there it was like they’d given me a
different bike.
“The power didn’t worry me, I
didn’t even highside the thing, though
I came close a few times. It was the
front end, same as the RC30: you
braked, rolled into the corner and the
front tucked. I knew how fast I wanted
to go, but the bike wouldn’t let me do
it, it was so fucking frustrating!
“My style was a 250 style, my
strength was mid-corner speed.
The NSR didn’t do that. I remember
Doohan passing me a couple of
races later at Brno. He came past at
Turn One and I thought, ‘Where’s he
going?!’. He almost stopped the bike,
slid the bike on the power to turn it
and fired it out – totally the opposite
to how I rode.
“The 500s changed a few years
later and I reckon my style would’ve
suited them, because Max Biaggi,
Carlos Checa and all those guys used
a 250 style.
“I crashed out at Donington when
the front tucked. Then we went to
Anderstorp and the bike was really
different, maybe the camber in the
corners or something. I grew and
grew and got sixth in the race, so the
team said, ‘do you want to do the next
two races?’, which were Brno and
Hungaroring.
“I said I need the ’bars higher
up, otherwise I was over the front
of the bike too much. I got to Brno
and they’d done nothing to the bike. I
didn’t feel wanted and I wasn’t happy.
“At Brno I lost the front and
crashed twice in practice. The bike
was horrible to ride again. Same
again in Hungary – lost the front and
had a massive crash. I got ninth and
eighth in those races and they asked
me to do the last round in Australia.
I said, ‘No’, I need to do some British
races.
“I’ve not doubt what I would’ve
achieved on a 500s in the late nineties
because by then the bikes suited my
style a lot better. I had that meeting
with Kenny Roberts at the end of 1995
and he said he wanted me on his
500s in 1996, but Marlboro wanted
an American. I don’t know how close
Carl Fogarty
Max Biaggi
Carlos Checa
Doohan
69
70 SuperBike
2012 CRT bike with Aleix Espargaro
Synchronised highside for Chili
and Doohan
it got because you get told so much
shit. The Yamaha would’ve suited my
style – a couple of years on that and
I like to think I’d have challenged for
the championship.”
500 crisis: replace them with fourstrokes!
The 500 class was the premier category
in 1990; it just didn’t feel like
it. The grids were half empty and the
bikes and tyres seemed to have been
designed to put riders in hospital.
The problem wasn’t only horsepower,
but how the bikes delivered it
and the way the tyres handled it: the
race for more maximum horsepower
made the engines more aggressive
and Michelin’s race for more grip
made the tyres more aggressive.
That’s why there were so many
highsides in 1990, most famously the
Mick Doohan/Pier-Francesco Chili
synchronised highside at Nürburgring
and Wayne Gardner’s huge
shunt at Brno. In fact Gardner’s getoff
was caused by an overheated rear
disc, not the classic slide/grip/flick
scenario.
The situation got so bad that terminating
the 500 class was considered.
Honda came up with a formula
they thought would be safer and
more affordable, for 375cc triples.
FIM road racing chief Joe Zegwaard
preferred allowing fourstrokes
onto the grid, specifically TT
F1 bikes, with race chassis powered
by superbike engines. Funnily
enough, this was the template for
CRT bikes, introduced to MotoGP
in 2012. Others suggested the 500s
should be axed and replaced by
superbikes, like Ducati’s big v-twin,
Honda’s RC30 and so on.
In the end Yamaha and Honda
saved the day. In 1992 Yamaha sold
YZR500 engines to privateers, who
housed them in Harris and ROC
chassis, while Honda unleashed the
rider-friendly big-bang engine, which
allowed European ex-125 and 250
riders to handle 500s for the first
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Each year we run our annual survey to find out
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55% of you who don’t are thinking about it!
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If you do not attend trackdays, why not?
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39% say they don’t need to go faster
5% are too afraid
28% say the track is intimidating
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37%
NOT
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85
BIG RED
INJECTOR
By Bill Hunter
Pics: Meghan McCabe
Japanese classic motorcycles are becoming the most sought after bikes on
the planet, preferably large capacity air-cooled variants. Anything from the
1970s onwards are the most desirable and this particular model is one of the
most sought after of all. Why is that you ask, seeing as it’s ‘just’ an in-line, four
cylinder, Kawasaki?
Well, let me tell you
and it’s down to three
primary reasons. One,
it’s a one year only
model (1981). Two, it’s
the first 1100cc GPz. And three, most
importantly, this is the first ever fuel-injected
1100 Kawasaki. Now there
are three reasons alone to make this
one hyper-desirable collector’s bike.
Wouldn’t you like this sitting in your
garage? I know I would!
Anyway, let’s get back to the
biggest talking point here, the fuel-injection
system. Not the first time
Kawasaki decided to squirt into the
engine, that was the z1000H Mark2,
and a big shite cruiser thing from the
USA. Like I said, this was the first
1100 (1,089cc to be precise), to receive
injection but it was, or could be, a little
troublesome. Indeed, this bike had a
few problems when brought back from
dying in an old shed. It needed a new
fuel-pump, a full injection service,
and… but now it runs as sweetly as a
new syringe at a heroin party.
With only 28k on the massive and
comical ‘lunchbox’ clocks the engine
sounds like new with no horrific noises
from its 20-year old, 2-valve, lump.
A tribute to how well made these old
engines are, but predictably heavy.
Oh yes, this GPz1100 comes in at a
quarter-of-a-ton (250kg), but magically
doesn’t feel it to ride. You see new
bikes, like monster adventure bikes
for example, are huge. This B1 actually
feels relatively small when ‘back
in the day’ it was also a monster, how
times change, eh?
By today’s standards 108hp isn’t a
lot, but with a super-slick, five-speed
gearbox it certainly isn’t slow. Don’t
forget the B1 is only geared to reach
around 230km/h, so it will, or did,
cover the quarter-mile in the highly
respectably low 11-second zone. At
those speeds though it does get a bit
of weave on in top gear, which gives
you ‘owl-eyes’ if you know what I
mean?
Whilst in the saddle you enjoy a
really smooth ride. Yes, I’m not joking,
this thing simply wafts along the highway
with hardly any vibration, helped
by a seat that embarrasses most modern
bikes regarding plush comfort.
Have we gone backwards with today’s
seats? Answers to ‘my arse is killing
me’, PO Box Dead Buttocks!
So the B1 rides as well as it looks
but why was it a one-year only model.
Well in 1982 came the B2 with revised
Bosch digital fuel-injection because
the B1 had basic port-injection with
the injectors forced into the cylinder-head.
The B2 (basically the same
bike with a new bikini fairing), now had
the injectors inside the throttle body,
similar to modern bikes. Again the B2
was a one-year only model that was
then discarded in ’83 with the all-new
faired Uni-Trak variant (still injected)
arriving on the scene for a few years.
Then everything changed when the
mighty GPz900R (16-valve) dawned,
which handled far better and was fast-
86 SuperBike
er, with carbs! In fact after 85/86 fuel
injection fell away for many years
when the Suzuki GSX-R750 SRAD
only adopted it in the late nineties,
correct me if I’m wrong?
Now before you fall off your
perch, spitting phlegm about Kawasaki’s
other ‘forgotten’ injected bikes,
I’m getting to them. Besides Honda’s
CX 500/650 and Suzuki’s XN 85 ‘weak’
turbo bikes, Kawasaki seemed to be
the market leaders with injection,
where their stunning GPz750 turbo
creamed them all. In ’83 they also
fitted a similar system to the gargantuan
six-cylinder z1300 to try to
improve appalling fuel consumption
figures, which helped a little. Then
it all dissolved into the history books
with the ZX and ZZR range, all now
with carbs. Basically, in those days
without the computing power of
modern bikes, carbs just made more
power, simple as that.
In ‘those days’ this bike was
Kawasaki’s best offering and even in
2020 it’s still a superb machine on
all counts, and thanks to my mate
Piet for trusting me with it. His B1 is
partly restored with new paint and
few parts cleaned and painted, but
nothing more, so 90% +/- original. If
you’re wondering about value, which
is always a difficult thing to asses, we
think well north of 150k, if not more,
it is a very rare bike after all!
Either way if you remember this
bike from the early eighties, or even
owned one, I guarantee you’ll wish
this was in your man cave, right?
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RSV4 1100 FACTORY MY20- R526 269
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G 310 GS- R88 800
C 400 X- R138 200
C 400 GT- R149 600
F 750 GS- R195 600
F 850 GS- R206 700
F 850 GS ADV- R237 700
R1250 GS- R286 800
R 1250 GS ADV- R314 400
R 1250 R- R230 300
R1250RS- R246 200
R 1250 RT - R275 400
R NINET PURE- R217 000
R nineT - R234 000
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K 1600 GTL- R348 900
K 1600 B- R337 600
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ZX-10R- R275 995
H2 SX SE- R289 995
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KTM 390 DUKE- R79 999
KTM RC390- R84 999
KTM 390 ADVENTURE- R93 999
KTM 690 SMC R- R168 999
KTM 690 ENDURO R - R168 999
KTM 790 DUKE- R159 999
KTM 790 ADVENTURE- R195 999
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MAXSYM 600I ABS- R121 995
CROX 125- R19 995
FIDDLE II 150- R20 995
JET14 200- R26 995
ORBIT II 125- R16 995
SYMPHONY 150- R19 995
X-PRO 125- R21 995
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STREET TWIN- R152 000
SPEED TWIN- R192 000
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BONNEVILLE T120- R179 000
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BONNEVILLE T120 BUD EKINS- R181 000
BONNEVILLE BOBBER- R179 000
BONNEVILLE BOBBER BLACK- R192 000
BONNEVILLE SPEEDMASTER- R189 000
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STREET SCRAMBLER- R179 000
THRUXTON 1200 R- R199 000
SPEED TWIN- R192 000
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TIGER 800 XCA- R205 000
TIGER 900 RALLY PRO- R229 000
TIGER 900 GT PRO- R215 000
TIGER 1200 DESERT EDITION- R259 000
TIGER 1200 XCA- R275 000
ROCKET R- R316 000
ROCKET GT- R332 000
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YBR125G- R31 950
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XT250- R69 950
X-MAX 300- R94 950
T-MAX 560- R214 950
XT1200Z- R224 950
XT1200ZE- R249 950
MT-O3- R94 950
MT-07 ABS - R134 950
MT-09 ABS - R169 950
MT-07 TRACER - R144 950
MT-09 TRACER - R179 950
MT-09 TRACER GT- R199 950
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YZF-R6 - R219 950
YZF-R1 - R329 950
YZF-R1M- R424 950
NIKEN- R275 000
FJR1300- R229 950
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ZT310-R - R66 900
ZT310-X- R72 900
ZT310-X1- R82 900
ZT310-T- R77 900
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CRF125F - R44 600
CRF250R - R98 999
CRF450R- R121 000
CRF250RX - R116 600
CRF450RX - R122 100
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TC 50 MINI- R50 699
EE 5- R67 699
TC 65- R65 699
TC 85- R79 699
TC 125- R102 699
TE 150 I - R119 699
TC 250- R116 699
FC 250- R127 699
TE 250 I- R140 699
FE 250- R142 699
TX 300 I- R145 699
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FC 350- R132 699
FX 350- R143 699
FE 350- R144 699
FC 450- R134 699
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FX 450 - R146 699
FE 450- R147 699
FE 501- R150 699
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KX 85 BIG WHEEL - R54 995
KX 250 F - R115 995
KX 450 F - R119 995
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KTM 50 SX - R51 999
KTM 50 SX FACTORY EDITION- R58 999
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KTM 85 SX - R78 999
KTM 125 SX - R100 999
KTM 150 SX- R105 999
KTM 150 XC-W TPI- R116 999
KTM 250 SX - R114 999
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KTM 250 XC-F - R136 999
KTM 250 EXC SIX DAYS TPI- R143 999
KTM 250 EXC-F - R137 999
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KTM 300 XC TPI - R139 999
KTM 300 XC-W TPI- R141 999
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KTM 300 XC-W TPI ERZBERG- R156 999
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KTM 350 EXC-F - R139 999
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KTM 450 SX-F- R132 999
KTM 450 SX-F FACTORY EDITION- R148 999
KTM 450 XC-F- R140 999
KTM 450 EXC-F - R142 999
KTM 450 EXC-F SIX DAYS - R135 999
KTM 500 EXC-F - R145 999
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SE 125 FACTORY 2T- R109 900
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SEF 500 FACTORY 4T- R147 700
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ST 250 RACING -
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TTR50E - R34 950
TTR110E - R46 950
YZ 65 - R66 950
YZ85 - R79 950
YZ125 - R84 950
YZ125X - R95 950
YZ250 - R99 950
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Kit valued at R50 000
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Demo available
2020 MV Agusta
Turismo Veloce
R289 950
2020 MV Agusta
Dragster 800 RR Demo
3 year Warranty and
3 year comprehensive
service plan
R279 950
Kit Included with Dragster models
Race ECU, SC Project Exhaust and more!
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1 Halifax St
Bryanston, Sandton
2191
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011 467 0737
011 465 4591
011 465 4212
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