Issue Vol 67 Issue 12 (2024)

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In This IssueGenerosity is our thingWELCOME TO THE Yearbook, the culmination of 12 months of hard work by the AMCN team. Producing a mag of more than 220 pages and featuring Motorcycle of The Year in just 10 normal working days takes a superhuman effort. I say normal working days, although they are anything but that here at Gassit HQ. Thank you, everyone.The extra surge of speed felt like I’d just hit the ton. From that moment on I was hookedThis is my third Yearbook as editor, and you may notice a pattern emerging with my Ed’s Desk. Christmas holds so many fond childhood memories for me, almost all courtesy of my parents, but this memory is about my first experience with the generosity that is the hallmark of motorcyclists.My old 1974 Honda XL175 has…2 min

Regulars2017 the know the year that was…THIS YEAR WILL be remembered for a lot of things. Not least Jason Doyle’s world championship, or Johnny Rea’s history making third world title, or Jorge Lorenzo’s brave switch from the sweet-handling Yamaha to the notoriously difficult Ducati.Then there was KTM’s campaigns in all three classes of MotoGP, and the controversial reverse grid for Race 2 of the World Superbike Championship. No one will forget an Aussie leading off the start line of the Isle of Man TT on a number-one plated Norton, or when Daryl Beattie was inducted into the AMCN Hall of Fame.It was a year of too much human loss, a year of so many new bikes, a year of shift and a year of triumph and tragedy.Even if we never got the highly anticipated on-track battle…5 min

RegularsNew KTM 790 Adventure spiedJUST A FEW WEEKS ago KTM’s 790 Adventure R prototype was a concept bike starring at the EICMA show in Milan. Now the production version is on test and looking very close to showroom-ready.It’s a machine that will surely give makers of other middleweight adventure bikes some sleepless nights. While KTM hasn’t revealed the specs, we know it’s closely based on the new 790 Duke. It shares the same 77kW RC8c parallel-twin engine and appears to have much the same chassis and similar WP suspension, albeit jacked up to give the right off-road ability and appearance.That means it should also be close to the 790 Duke’s 189kg ready-to-ride figure. Or, to put it another way, the 790 Adventure promises to blow its rivals out of the water in terms of…3 min

RegularsIndian FTR production bike looks likelyINDIAN IS LOOKING increasingly likely to build a showroom version of its FTR1200 Custom concept bike. It would celebrate the brand’s success in flat track racing and offer a sporty naked alternative to established European and Japanese rivals.The FTR1200 concept appeared at EICMA, featuring the 1133cc V-twin from the existing Scout models bolted to a tubular-steel frame similar to that of the race-only FTR750 which dominated the 2017 American Flat Track Series.Now it seems almost certain that Indian will create a production version of the FTR for the street. As well as showing the FTR1200 concept, the company has just trademarked the name ‘FTR’ for use on ‘motorcycles and structural parts thereof’ in both America and Europe.It’s understood that the AMA has approved the current FTR750 for flat track use…1 min

RegularsWhere’s the ’Bus?OUR SOURCES IN Japan say that the reason for Suzuki’s modest crop of new models for 2018 is a delay in the development of the next-generation Hayabusa.The Busa’s replacement was previewed with the Concept GSX (pictured) two years ago. Shown at the 2015 Tokyo Motor Show, the Concept GSX was a sculpture made of pulped paper, but despite its weird construction it left little doubt as to the bike it represented.The norm for such previews is for the production machines to appear about two years later, so expectations were high for the new Hayabusa to appear in late 2017 as a 2018 model.The first indication that might not happen emerged earlier this year when Suzuki type-approved the existing 1340cc Hayabusa as a 2018 model in America. When the Tokyo Motor…1 min

RegularsTriumph Daytona 765, anyone?TRIUMPH HAS FILED a brace of trademark applications recently, and the most enticing of all is the application in both America and Europe for the name ‘Triumph Daytona’.While British records show that Triumph has owned the name since 1995, it doesn’t appear to hold those rights in the key European and American trademark databases, hence the new application. Of course, the name ‘Daytona’ alone has been used by other firms, notably Moto Guzzi, which also offered a Daytona model during the 1990s.The new application is interesting because it comes just as Triumph appears to be losing interest in the Daytona 675. The current model doesn’t meet Euro 4 emissions limits, and as such is being sold in Europe under end-of-series rules designed to offload old stock. Its permissions under those…2 min

Issue Vol 67 Issue 12 (2024)

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