MCN Magazine 1-Mar-2023 Vorige editie

Are the Chinese finally arriving?
The assertion that we’d ‘all be riding Chinese bikes soon’ has been voiced repeatedly for decades – but it’s never actually happened. Of course, many bikers may well be blissfully unaware that the bike they think is Italian, or even German, is actually built or powered by a Chinese production – but the full package has never quite been
full enough. Is that now changing as Euro-backed CFMoto rise up?

Honda twins – separated at birth
Take one Africa Twin, strip it of its True Adventure aspirations and wrap it in a shroud of touring tropes, et voila! One Honda NT1100. So do the clothes maketh the bike? With shared chassis parts, engine, fundamental electronics and dash packages – are these two Honda ‘twins’ playing with smoke and mirrors, or is one clearly the better option in the battle for our roads (and hearts, and minds)?

Street Triple 765 RS is full of spirit
Ever since Triumph whipped the fairings off their Daytona 675 and settled on the Street Triple name for their funky naked inline-triple, we’ve been lapping it up in our thousands. Simple; cheeky; packed with enough midrange to make it a joy on the road, and enough top-end to wail like a banshee on track; and with looks that are somehow masculine and delicate all at the same time... it’s hard not to love. And learnings taken from four years as the engine supplier to Moto2 mean the updated 765 RS is better than ever.