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NOVEMBER 2022 (# 280 )
COMMENT - A Nice Bunch of Tumbleweed .................................. 4
Robin Bradley is saddened by the outcome of some 20 years of ' Show Wars ' between Cologne and Milan finally appearing to have taken its first fatality , with INTERMOT suffering a near death experience despite holding the key to accessing the valuable north European market where the highest spending riders in the world are to be found .
TRIUMPH - MX Race Team Plans .......................................... 24
Recent years have seen UK based ' Triumph , Second of its Name ' comeback iteration ( a legendary British marque founded by two German guys ) getting ultraambitious . It has followed up becoming the spec engine for the Moto2 World Championship class , ambitious plans for electrics and off-road market entry , by now confirming a team for the 2024 MX World Championship .
BILTWELL - " Nobody Went to jail " ........................ 54-58 Always adventurers at heart , Biltwell founder Bill Bryant tells the story of their recent Alaskan ' Operation Numbnuts ' derring-do - " blown motors , bear scat , wolf tracks , sceptical locals , broken generators and dead batteries , but nobody went to jail or hospital ."
TECMATE - A Gamechanger ...................................... 34 It ' s an often used and often overused concept , but the simplest of ideas has made the new OptiMate solar charger a true gamechanger in terms of the practical utility of that most abundant and versatile of power sources .
Now They Are Going For It ... Initially , the Japanese manufacturers ( of all people ) appeared to be tentative about plans to embrace an electric future , uncertain of the direction to take and appearing to want to ' read the runes ' before committing themselves . That is all changing now though ...
HONDA - Ten New Electric Motorcycles by 2025 ....................... 26 KAWASAKI - Near-Production Electrics and Hybrids ................. 64
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