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LOOKING FOR ADVENTURE! The opening few bars of Steppenwolf’s ‘Born to be Wild’ often pops into my head when I’ve been riding, especially if I’m on my Harley. I know, sad. But it’s been rattling around my brain for a few days while I’ve been office-bound, packaging this issue up for Stewy, our art director. You know how it goes, “Get your motor runnin’, head out on the highway, looking for adventure, in whatever comes our way…..” Ya’ll be humming that for days now! Anyway, the cataylst for my rambles is that we’ve got some mental adventure rides in this issue, but what’s different is that all of them are veering away from the Tarmac and heading off into the boondocks in that constant search for freedom, from not only…

CALL OF THE WILD WHEN FUEL MOTORCYCLES EMBARKED ON THEIR NO MAN’S LAND ADVENTURE IN CHINA (SEE p12) THEY LAUNCHED A NEW RANGE OF ENDURO RIDING GEAR TO SUIT THE TERRAIN… Photography courtesy of Fuel Motorcycles RALLY RAID JACKET, £450 Made to the highest specifications, this invokes the spirit of the heroes from the golden age whose goals were to have life-changing adventures, not just win races. This jacket has Smoothways CE level 2 body at the elbow, shoulder and back. Tough outer layer of canvas Cordura Reinforced with genuine Kevlar panels on all abrasion and impact areas Waterproof membrane Cotton blend Polyester fabric color inner Thermal liner (removable) Smoothways CE level 2 body at elbow, shoulder and back YKK Zippers Sealed pockets CE approved EN 17092-3:2020 Class AA + UKCA…

CAKES AND VOLCANOES Ø ITALY 4 BIKES 2 VANS 7 DAYS AND 2 VOLCANOS † CAN YOU RIDE OFF-ROAD FROM VESUVIUS TO ETNA ON ELECTRIC BIKES? BUILT DECIDES TO FIND OUT… PHOTOS BY Fabio Affuso WORDS BY Fabio Affuso After witnessing the first Elektrafuture – the electric off-road motorcycle festival in St Tropez – I thought of a challenge. Could some mates and I ride electric bikes between the two most dangerous volcanoes in Europe – Vesuvius and Etna – using solar power alone? My plan is to use my ‘motohome’ as the back-up vehicle (I’ve converted a former ambulance and equipped it with solar panels) and use its solar power to charge the Cake bikes we’ll be riding. We’ll wild camp too. Bonkers? Possibly. But who likes normality? Me and…

MALLE BEACH RACE Ø MARGATE / UK THE BEACH RACE TIDE CHASING Words and photos by Kevin Bennett Images “ The level of madness is was inspiring. Not only are 250 bikes on the beach, but they’re racing flat out ” In 2020, the defining feature of The Malle Mile Beach Race was the atrocious weather – motorcycles, riders, marshals and spectators were battered by gale-force winds, mini sand storms and 10ft waves, as the race carried on regardless. For 2021, the weather was kinder – not hot, but it was dry at least. So what would be the defining feature of this years race? Could it be the new Malle Beach Race Gallery? Situated on the boardwalk over-looking the race track, there was an art exhibition and fantastic live music. Or…

TOURING Ø GREECE GREECE LIGHTNING BUILT READERS LUCIA AUCOTT (LEFT) AND DOMINIKA GRNOVA RIDE TO A TINY GREEK ISLAND AND DISCOVER THE DELIGHTS OF THE COUNTRY’S BACK ROADS WORDS AND PHOTOGRAPHY BY Lucia Aucott Dominika Grnova Every biking holiday should include flat track, so that’s what my friend Dominika and I arranged. Two days practice in Sparta and a week of riding the back roads sounded like the perfect holiday. Arriving in Athens, Dominika had organised the bikes – a KTM 390 Adventure for me and a Ducati Desert Sled for her. Back home in the UK I live in the sticks and on a busy day I might see a pheasant and a tractor, so Monday morning in the Athens rush hour was an experience. The Greek traffic is…

KEVIN’S XS650 Ø UK RED HERRINGS, KICK BACKS SHORT CIRCUITS IT TOOK A PROPER INVESTICATION TO GET TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS CHOPPER'S MURKY PAST BUT THANKS TO ITS LATEST OWNER IT'S NOW A LONG-DISTANCE HAULER-AND SHOW WINNER PHOTOGRAPHY DEL HICKEY Kevin is the most recent of 17 owners, riders, builders, bodgers, tinkerers and tale-tellers who have laid their hands on this bike in the last 41 years. In 1980 when she rolled off the production line, looking just as Yamaha intended, Kevin was riding a 1976 Honda Chaly around Cambridge as an 18-year-old copper blissfully unaware how the bike would eventually change his life. By the time this 1980 Yamaha XS650 had found its way into the possession of an RAF fast jet pilot in the north of England its…

PEPO XTR Ø BARCELONA / SPAIN RUNNING WITH THE DEVIL PHOTOS Belen Piqueras Pepo Rosell is famous for turning all sorts of Ducati V-twins into lightweight, nimble and fast road burners. Now he’s at it with Royal Enfield twins. This is his first effort, a low-cost reworking of a mate’s crashed Continental 650. There’s a much more heavily fettled racer on the way but for now, Pepo is happy to just give the lowdown on a bike that’s been dubbed Lillith, the Devil’s first lady… How did this build come about? My friend and I both saw an opportunity to transform the crashed bike into a more extreme cafe racer in the XTR way. The idea was not to make a heavy transformation with frame modifications or stripping the bike to…

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MALLE MILE Ø LINCOLNSHIRE THE MALLE MILE LUCKY NUMBER 7 Words by Malle’s Robert Nightingale Images by Shane Benson When we were kids we’d pick up field bikes in the back of the Friday paper, stick dirt tyres on them, cover them in electrical tape as ‘race graphics’ and chase each other around the woods. It didn’t matter how old to bike, or what it was, as long as it almost worked and could be ridden, or better yet, raced. That was the pure joy of motorcycles. Then we got older and started exploring, racing, building and travelling on bikes, but you always need to remember that at the heart of it all, motorcycles are just fun. Some people can forget that and occasionally take it all too seriously, especially…

BLITZ Ø PARIS / FRANCE BLITZ THE BOOK FRENCH BUILDERS BLITZ AREN’T AFRAID TO TAKE A DIFFERENT APPROACH. SO, IN THE INSTA AGE, THEY’VE MADE A BOOK thehistorypress.co.uk blitz-motorcycles.com Fred Jourden and Hugo Jezegabel founded Blitz Motorcycles in Paris ten years ago to bring some simplicity back to motorcycling. We love their rustic builds and while they lack bling, they are very usable, honest motorcycles. And we love meeting Fred and Hugo – you couldn’t get two more contrasting characters. Fred is a great orator, with outspoken views on the meaning of life and bikes, while it’s hard work teasing much out of Hugo who prefers to work in the background while Fred acts as the mouthpiece. Fred was a marketing director who qualified as a motorcycle mechanic after doing…

SWANK RALLY Ø SARDINIA Swanky adventure WHETHER YOU OPTED FOR A CLASSIC DAKAR MOUNT OR HILARIOUSLY INAPPROPRIATE CUSTOM, THIS YEAR’S DEUS SWANK RALLY IN SARDINIA OFFERED SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE WORDS AND PHOTOGRAPHY BY FABIO AFFUSO Falling in love with Sardinia is no problem. Friendly locals, deserted mountains, beautiful beaches, warm weather, and wonderful food make sure of that. But if you’re riding the Deus Swank Rally of Sardinia, you can multiply all those factors by 10. Partly this is down to solid organisation, thanks to Renato Zocchi and Filippo Bassoli. Renato is an ex-Dakar rider and seasoned event organiser who created the Rally of Sardinia back in 1985, which then became a preliminary stage of the Dakar. Filippo is a Deus director and the mind behind most creative endeavours at…

LORD DRAKE KUSTOMS Ø SPAIN SURVIVOR EVER SEEN A SPRINGER-FORKED BAVARIAN BOOMER BEFORE? US NEITHER. FRAN FROM LDK EXPLAINS ALL PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY OF LORD DRAKE KUSTOMS Survivor is a BMW R100 springer cafe racer, the first unit of a limited edition of 10 that Lord Drake Kustoms (based in Miami and Spain) plans to manufacture. Lord Drake’s owner Francisco (Fran) Alí Manén says his idea was to “create a piece of art on two wheels and above all a custom BMW R that had not been seen to date. It is well known to all lovers of the world of custom motorcycles that the BMW R100 series are possibly the most demanded and customised cafe racer motorcycles in recent years, but if you look at the end, they all have…

MALLE RALLY Ø UK THE GREAT MALLE RALLY RIDE BRITAIN Words by Malle Rally marshall Ben Bowers Images by Shane Benson The Great Malle Rally is the longest motorcycle rally in the UK, with 1500 beautiful miles of riding from the southern tip of England to the very northern tip of Scotland. Held over six days, the route carves a path across the most scenic mountains, coasts and valleys in Britain, mainly on tiny B-Roads. And the bikes are hilarious – it’s for ‘inappropriate’ bikes, so no spangly GSs, just customs, classics, cafe racers, choppers and scramblers. My job was to help marshall this motley crew, though when I say ‘job’ it’s hardly coal mining is it? There were so many highlights. For example, as we enter the Peak District…

DEUS Ø INDONESIA AKA-TOMBO RED DRAGON FLY DEUS BUILD THE PERFECT WHEELS FOR INDONESIAN LIFE Words courtesy of Deus Ex Machina Photography by Didit Prasetyo Adiwibowo The Deus Temple of Enthusiasm’s Bengkel (meaning workshop in Indonesian), was chosen by Yamaha as one of four Bali shops to show what could be done to the XSR155. The only rule was: don’t touch the frame or the engine. Our final design reflects what we ask of our bikes on Bali. They need to carry us to the beach for a prework surf, head home afterwards and then head back into the office. And at night time they need to carry us into town with a partner on the pillion for a night out. The great thing about this build was that it…