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stripes against the green livery. Pretty
models aside (as usual the Big K had
its share) the new Zed caught a lot of
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HARLEY DAVIDSON
Harley has hogged (there I go again)
enough of the limelight with the
new Softail range (see Australian
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Expansion) so let’s skip to the
EICMA-launched FLSB Sport Glide- The box said Glide and Sport
and open the packet and you can also
see some touring pretensions with
the soft-shell panniers and the mini
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the Glide range. Nice attempt, too,
D. I liked the wheels, the upswept
into 1 and, knowing how well the
ew Softail frame handles, I think
the Sport will be a great addition to
the range for 2018.KTM
Well, colour me Orange. The roll
call of KTM hero riders took quite
a while since the Austrians had
(again) won so many titles this year,
ut the standout for me was not
e blokes but the new 790 platform
twins. The LC8c twin cylinder is
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rket gap between the singles and
heavy hitting plus-1090s and up
he 1290s. The promise is exciting
l-world performance and, most
ortantly, agile handling with some
lt in excitement out of the 77kW
allel twin. Torque of 86Nm and
t weight of 169kg for the 790
Duke leads me to think that the term
The Scalpel might be quite apt!SUZUKI
Pretty much the opposite of KTM,
Suzuki stayed away from anything new
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unless the SV 650 X could be worthy