MAXIM Australia December 2021

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DREAM WEAVER

Polyglot Nazanin Mandi has shined since the wizened age of 10, when she booked her first modelling gig. Only five years later the young star belted out Mozart’s “Requiem” to a crowded Carnegie Hall. It’s little surprise the half-Mexican/half-Persian beauty, who has 1.7 million Instagram followers, has lived a charmed existence, including marrying the love of her life, superstar R&B singer Miguel. But as the actress — who plays leading roles in Lena Waithe’s BET series Twenties and 2020’s The Last Conception, and can be seen in BET’s Games People Play — debuts her stunning lingerie line Elle Rêve, she reveals perhaps even more. How was your morning? Well, I woke up at 6:30 like I always do, that’s my routine. I give myself a good ‘me time’ hour. Me time includes…

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WILD TWINS

2022 ROYAL ENFIELD CONTINENTAL GT 650 TWIN (AND INTERCEPTOR 650 TWIN) ENGINE: 648cc air-cooled parallel twin TRANSMISSION: Six speed constant mesh POWER: 34.9 kW @ 7150 rpm (Int 34.6kW @ 7100 rpm) TORQUE: 52.3 Nm @ 5150 rpm (Int 52 Nm @ 4000 rpm) DRY WEIGHT: 212 kg (Int 202 kg) SEAT HEIGHT: 820 mm (Int 804 mm) FUEL CAPACITY: 12.5 litres (Int 13.7 litres) 2022 ROYAL ENFIELD CONTINENTAL GT 650 (COLOURS/RIDE AWAY PRICING) ROCKER RED: $10,990 BRITISH RACING GREEN: $10,990 DUX DELUXE: $11,290 VENTURA STORM: $11,290 MR CLEAN: $11,590 2022 ROYAL ENFIELD INTERCEPTOR 650 (COLOURS/RIDE AWAY PRICING) ORANGE CRUSH: $10,790 CANYON RED: $10,790 VENTURA BLUE: $10,790 BAKER EXPRESS: $11,090 DOWNTOWN DRAG: $11,090 SUNSET STRIP: $11,090 MARK TWO: $11,390 For 2022, both will come Euro 5 compliant and adopt new retro-inspired colour schemes, adding an added aesthetic for their riders in Australia and NZ, of which there are 2500 — and counting. Inspired…

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Black Beauty

2021 TRIUMPH ROCKET 3 GT TRIPLE BLACK ENGINE: 2458cc DOHC Inline 3 cylinder TRANSMISSION: 6 speed wet, multi plate POWER: 123 kW @ 6000 rpm TORQUE: 221 Nm @ 4000 rpm DRY WEIGHT: 294 kg SEAT HEIGHT: 750 mm FUEL CAPACITY: 18 litres PRICE: $33,990* (*est) The bike in question is the Triumph Rocket 3, whose 2,458cc inline triple turns out a peak 163 pound-feet of horsepower. Most of us would be pretty chuffed with that, but that wasn’t enough for the big kahunas at Triumph, so they decided to slap their Rockets with darker paint and call them the Rocket 3 GT Triple Black — to get even more attention. The carbon fibre front fender gets the dark treatment, so do the 47mm cartridge Showa forks, the handlebar clamps, and so on. It would be easier to list the parts…

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NEPLUSULTRA

I was suffering mild panic attacks, with euphoria and trepidation thrown in. And that was before I’d even swung a leg over. It wasn’t COVID-19. It was two wheels with a power-toweight ratio more than twice that of a Bugatti Chiron. Weighing in at 159 kg, not far north of where I tip the scale after a good 12-hour lunch at Balthazar, with 224 horsepower on tap from its highly tweaked V4 motor. The beast was the Ducati Superleggera V4. An Exocet missile of a superbike built to annihilate everything in its class, with that Bolognese panache and character unique to Ducati — the most powerful, fastest, and most technologically advanced production bike they’ve ever produced. I’d been chasing this most recent holy grail of superbikes for some time. A global pandemic…

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Get to the Carcopter

Conceptualised as the first hydrogen Formula One flying car of tomorrow, the Carcopter is a hydrogen-powered flying vehicle designed specifically for high-speed racing. It’s neither car or a plane — it’s actually a bit of both. Definitely don’t call it a drone though, it’s manned by a human driver pushing the hydrogen-fed electric-driven craft to speeds over 240 km/h — good luck doing that in a drone. The eco-friendly design comes from the minds of two aviation experts: ex-fighter pilot Thierry de Boisvilliers and former Airbus executive Michael Krollak. The duo went with hydrogen fuel cells to reduce the harmful F1 carbon emissions — in the process creating a greener ride that literally flies. It still boasts an aerodynamic body that resembles today’s F1 vehicles. With six 35 kW motors it will be…

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The Tale Of THE WONDER MARE

Horse races are ranked according to an international system, with Group 1 races being the most prestigious. Several classic races link the careers of the Immortals, with the Melbourne Cup (3,200m) being probably the most well-known race although not every Cup winner is a champion and plenty of great horses could not win the Cup. The WS Cox Plate (2,040m) is run on the turning Mooney Valley track under the weight for age (WFA) scale in which horses of the same age and gender carry an equal weight. This one race has been the making and breaking of many champions over the years. There are sprinters (1,000m to 1,400m), middle distance horses (1,600m to 2,000m) and dyed-in-the wool stayers (2,400m to 3,200m) in the list of Immortals covered in my…

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