Retro rides
Hello and welcome to the January/February issue of Motorcycle Classics. While we tend to stick mostly to covering older motorcycles around here, since the very beginnings of MC way back in 2005, we’ve kept an eye on new-to-market, retro-styled motorcycles. We’ve covered many of them over the years, from several Royal Enfield Bullet singles all the way up to the more recent Continental GT and INT650. We’ve looked at the many iterations of the modern Triumph Bonneville family, along with Kawasaki W650s and the newer W800, a few Urals, Moto Guzzi V7s, and even bikes from U.S. upstart Janus Motorcycles. Ducati had their line of Sport Classics back in 2006, which were somehow short-lived. They may have been ahead of the curve. Today, since the reintroduction of the now popular Ducati Scrambler…