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The Sinnis Trackstar 125 has been listed first in the small bikes category of MCN’s What Bike? Magazine. Quoting the price as it’s biggest selling point they go on to mention it’s looks and charm potential – especially to scooter riders.
You have to admit it is a good looking bike. A little small admittedly but I would have been more than happy to own one of these machines when I was 17 and as MCN say:
It’s easy to lean around corners, has a fantastically small turning circle… It’s extraordinarily light and manageable, making it good for the commuter, rookie and petite alike.
They go on to mention it’s lovely retro styling, with a stitched brown seat and ‘pleasing’ little speedo before commenting on the quality which is really good for a budget bike. In fact Brighton-based Sinnis have enough faith in all of their products to offer a standard 24 month warranty with all the machines they produce…
Crazy what you can stumble across these days. Here’s a company offering a ‘Build Your Own Bike’ service. They get you to design it from the ground up and then they build it through to mock-up stage. Once it’s all ready all you need do is book your holiday in sunny Florida, pick up a spanner (sorry, wrench – it’s America after all) and set to on the final build! The world truly is your oyster too. They do trikes, japs, harleys, anything. I don’t imagine they’re that cheap though and I dread to think what the import tax would be like to get it back here to the UK…
Still, the idea’s sound. What’s a mere technicality between bikers?
Go check out their site Art in Motion
Someone took a secret phone picture of the new Moto Guzzi V7 Scrambler the other day and leaked it on the internet. Moto Guzzi responded by publishing some official pictures. So here it is, the new Moto Guzzi V7 Scrambler:
Official Image of the Moto Guzzi V7 Scrambler
Dunno. Looks to me like someone’s fed my old SS50 some steroids. I certainly don’t think BMW will be trembling at the prospect of this as competition to their GS Adventurer, do you?
What an odd looking machine. Don’t you think?
I’m sitting here all wrapped up like Boris Karloff in an Egyptian tomb trying desperately to stay warm and yet sunlight is streaming through the window from a picture-postcard blue sky and I hear the sound of bikes roaring past my window. Lots of bikes. It’s all a bit disconcerting to be honest. My body’s telling me it’s freezing and yet my eyes and ears tell me it’s a lovely sunny day…
It’s the sound of motorbikes which confuses me the most. Though it really shouldn’t. I’ve never been one to leave my bike in the garage just because it’s a bit chilly, heck I’ve ridden to work in the snow only to stop and find I couldn’t walk across the car park it was so icy and another time I caught hypothermia and almost died trying to visit my Mum in the middle of winter. In Yorkshire. So why does it surprise me to hear bikers riding past my window?
Because the majority of us think of winter as the domain of the car. We wrap our pride and joy up in the garage, plug in the Optimate and dream of the summer. And why do we do this? Because winter means cold. Winter means snow. And Winter means salty, wet roads. The bikes which do venture out are often cheap winter hacks. Old ‘crossers, ratty 400′s or hard core mopeds, and it changes the sound of the traffic.
In the last few weeks however I’ve been hearing the return of the four cylinder roar and the bark of the throaty twins. Take a look around you if you’re stuck on a bus in the morning or caught up in traffic in your warm little tin box. There’s more and more of us taking to the roads and it bodes well for the Summer. It seems some of us feel that the Winter has already past and well, what can I say? Here comes the Spring!
Tiniest sniff of fog and some folk seem to believe their 1.5 tonne steel box becomes invisible! In the middle of a well-lit city centre…? Honestly. Can you see the road? Can you see the car in front? Yes you can? Incredible.
So why on earth do you feel it necessary to blind me with your bloody fog light?
I appreciate that on an A-road in the middle of nowhere fog lights are a fantastic idea. But why oh why do so many idiots feel it’s necessary to switch the damn things on in the middle of the city?
The other day I was following a jeep in rush hour. We were never further than 2 metres apart and yet the idiot driver seemed to think it necessary to switch his fog lights on! Strangely enough mate, I could see you perfectly well before you switched it on. Then you decide to blind me. Nice one.
Not only that but now I can’t see your brake lights either. Aaaagh. Go read your highway code, which clearly states that you MUST NOT use front or rear fog lights unless visibility is seriously reduced as they dazzle other road users and can obscure your brake lights. You MUST switch them off when visibility improves.
Which as I’m sure you’ve all noticed is the biggest problem of all. Once they’re switched on it takes someone else to point out to these fools that they’ve forgotten to turn them off. Do us all a favour and next time you see fog forget where the bloody switch is will you?