Motorcycle Mojo – July 2019

In Europe it’s common to ride small

bikes. Why not in North America?

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arbon fibre is the material of the moment, but the Ducati 1299

Superleggera and BMW HP4 Race, which come dripping with the

stuff, came a bit late to the party. One full year ahead of them was the

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début at the 2016 Goodwood Festival of Speed.

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strictly Hollywood, but the tale of how it made its public début in front of 150,000

people at Goodwood by gate-crashing Lord March’s annual three-day Motoring

Garden Party, staged on the lawns of his stately home on the sunny south coast

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dramatically appears out of thin air – and transpires to be a Force for Good.

“The Goodwood introduction was a really great stunt!” rejoices Sjors van der

Heide, 32, elder of the two Rotterdam-based brothers who,

together with brother Rolf, 30, was responsible for

constructing this two-wheeled symphony of carbon

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there anyway hoping to use the motorcycle as

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Monday before the festival and made a brief test

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on Wednesday we set off for Goodwood.

Thursday we turned up at the gate and

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• they’d sent out all the prized invitations

months prior and they didn’t have one

for us,” Sjors explains. “Eventually, we

managed to meet the people in charge of the

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That did it – we were invited on the spot! The other

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side and you [Alan Cathcart] were on the other. It was a nice way to meet!”

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50 MOTORCYCLE MOJO JULY 2019

Alan Cathcart brings us the most lust-worthy bikes from around the world

UNOBTAINIUM VANDERHEIDE V4

A childhood

dream of building

a high-tech

superbike really

can come true