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Subject: New British Motorcycle Brand: ‘Mac Motorcycles’

Author: Bob

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 05:18:27 05/29/09 Fri Another new UK motorcycle company has announced plans to launch a range of bikes. Worcestershire based Mac Motorcycles – a collaboration between design studio Xenophya Design and Ellis Pitt – is to produce a small range of 500cc, single-cylinder models. The four models – designed around the Buell ‘Blast’ engine and featuring a tubular backbone frame – are described by Pitt as “‘Spud’, for dossing about on, ‘Ruby’, the motorcycle equivalent of ‘the girl-next-door’, ‘Peashooter’, for squirting to your favourite pub and gassing with your mates and the ‘Roarer’, a modern-day dinosaur-chaser!” Pitt said “Between us we’d designed, modified, built and ridden all sorts of motorcycles over the last 30 years. Our influences have been diverse and we’ve made unusual connections between genres of motorcycles such as choppers, Italian singles from the 1950s, flat-trackers and competition specials. What underpins Mac Motorcycles’ philosophy though is the belief that the riding experience and the stories that go with motorcycle journeys seem to have been hijacked by technology and plastic.” The plan is for each model to be built in small batches. Depending on preferred specification and tuning options, the expected price for any of the bikes is between £ 8k - £ 10k. For more information: http://www.mac-motorcycles.com [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]