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Filling in the gaps between issues

Go to WHSmiths or Buy Direct

Andy H 3rd May 2022 American-V 4 Comments

Yes, we have got a lot of work to do, catching up with ourselves on the Social Hub – we’ve been a little distracted, getting …

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American-V 107!

Breaking News: American-V 107 is in production!

Andy H 15th November 2021 American-V 14 Comments

It has been a long time coming and we’re not quite there yet, but we have been too quiet for too long! What’s going on? …

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Harley-Davidson Sportster S: a new dawn for an old name?

Andy H 14th July 2021 Harley-Davidson, New Models 8 Comments

Hang on to your hats, folks, this is going to get complicated. It’s going to get a whole lot more complicated in the next issue …

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New Harley-Davidson “Sportster S” announced

Andy H 13th July 2021 Harley-Davidson, New Models 3 Comments

==  P R E S S   R E L E A S E  == Oxford, UK (13th July 2021) – Ushering in a new era of …

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National Cycles Touring Screens

Fon 2nd July 2021 New Products Leave a Comment

Long gone are the days when a simple screen rising up from a Bat Wing was considered to the ultimate weather protection. Now you can …

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Le Pera King & Queen seats for classic hardtail choppers

Fon 1st July 2021 New Products Leave a Comment

The Baron II is a true Le Pera Classic that will look great on any classic rigid custom, and are a universal fit. With the …

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2021 Iron and Lace Calendar

Fon 30th June 2021 New Products Leave a Comment

If you’re workshop is missing a bit of colour and you don’t mind your view of a great looking motorcycle being partially obscured by a …

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HP Series Air Cleaner for Milwaukee Eight

Fon 29th June 2021 New Products Leave a Comment

Zodiac’s own High Performance air cleaner kit has been designed to fit all 2017-up Touring and 2018-up Softails powered by the Milwaukee Eight motor. Kits …

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Meet the Guvner

Fon 28th June 2021 New Products Leave a Comment

If you’ve got a nice bike – and we’ve got every reason to suspect that you might – you want to make sure you look …

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Elephant’s head nacelle kits

Fon 27th June 2021 New Products Leave a Comment

I freely admit that I’m biased, but reckon that this – as fited to 1960 Duo Glides right through to the last of the 4-speed …

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New S&S High Flow Air Stinger kit

Fon 25th June 2021 New Products Leave a Comment

Never a company for resting on its laurels, S&S Cycle continue developing their product range, and even excellent sellers like their Stealth don’t sit still. …

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Agid Super Fat T-Bars

Fon 24th June 2021 New Products Leave a Comment

Whether you are running early or late brake master cylinders – that changed in 2018, in case you were wondering – these T-Bars could be …

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Sport Eyes MX

Fon 23rd June 2021 New Products Leave a Comment

It has taken a few years and a new generation of riders to sneak motocross goggles into the custom bike world, and while they’re still …

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TORCing Heads

Fon 22nd June 2021 New Products Leave a Comment

I’m not totally sure why these have come round again, but either they’ve secured ECE certification or there are new models … or maybe just …

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Harley-Davidson’s Custom on the Horizon

Andy H 21st June 2021 Harley-Davidson, New Models 1 Comment

Under the banner of “Evolution to Revolution”, The Motor Company are inviting interested parties to pre-register for the announcement on the 13th July – 16:00 …

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Fork Enduro Fairings

Fon 19th June 2021 New Products Leave a Comment

Slotting somewhere between the new for-1967 XLH Sportster headlamp nacelle and the front number board from a Paris-Dakar racer, this one-of-a-kind Enduro-style fairing, fabricated by …

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Reduced Reach Forward Control Kits For Dyna

Fon 18th June 2021 New Products Leave a Comment

When Harley reintroduced the Low Rider back in 2014, they made a feature of its one-size fits all adjustable nature. Sadly it ruined a perfectly …

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Tommy & Sons 1998-2013 Batwing Style Fairings

Fon 17th June 2021 New Products Leave a Comment

Whether it’s to replace a damaged outer or just to give you a fresh start for a custom paint job, these precision moulded Batwings from …

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Fehling Groovy

Fon 16th June 2021 New Products Leave a Comment

It’s that time of the production process when all decorum goes out of the window, and it was all I could do to stop myself …

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Daytona Connecting Rod Set For Twin Cam

Fon 15th June 2021 Harley-Davidson, New Products Leave a Comment

While Harley-Davidson will supply a complete flywheel assembly for Twin Cam models, they don’t sell a connecting rod set for those who have the ability …

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Arlen Ness MX Floorboards

Fon 14th June 2021 New Products Leave a Comment

Remember when MX footpegs first appeared on Harley customs, looking a little out of place or not downright lost? They’re commonplace now, and I doubt …

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Harley-Davidson tops the podium in Round 2 of Moto America / Mission’s King of the Baggers!

Andy H 13th June 2021 Harley-Davidson Leave a Comment

I’d say more but why spoil it? Enough to say that Tyler O’Hara on the Indian Challenger was having fun in some tight racing with …

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Arlen Ness ‘Method’ Forged Fork Brace

Fon 13th June 2021 New Products Leave a Comment

Running a Mk2 Dyna with 49mm forks? Then perhaps more cosmetic than functional – certainly than in the early seventies when 35mm forks needed all …

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This Sucks Too: Replica Linkert M88 Carburetor

Fon 12th June 2021 New Products Leave a Comment

Built in Europe from all new parts this replica carburetor looks identical to the original Linkert found on 1940 and later WLA and WLC 45ci …

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PM Mid Controls for Milwaukee-Eight

Fon 10th June 2021 New Products Leave a Comment

Okay, so the idea of a performance Bagger might still seem alien to some, but the frames are taut, the suspension is good and can …

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Kellermann Atto Integral Turn Signal and Stop/Tail/Turn Lights

Fon 9th June 2021 New Products Leave a Comment

Having reinvented indicators over the last ten years, switching people on to the magic of tiny LED on short stems, Kellermann’s popular Atto LED lights …

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Fat tyres for narrow spaces

Fon 8th June 2021 New Products Leave a Comment

If you want to put a 120/70×21 tyre on the 21×3½-inch wheel in the front of your bike – for an improved footprint or just …

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Supertrapp Megaphone For XG Models

Fon 8th June 2021 New Products Leave a Comment

The aftermarket world hasn’t been desperately kind towards Harley-Davidson’s 2014-on Revolution X models – the XG750 Street cruiser and its sportier XG750 Street Rod sibling …

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Too Hot to Trot?

Fon 7th June 2021 New Products Leave a Comment

Is your oil-cooled Milwaukee Eight overheating? It’s not something I’ve experienced but then I don’t live in a city or the Mojave desert, in which …

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Ultimate Puncture repair tool

Fon 4th June 2021 New Products Leave a Comment

Like an army knife for punctures, this might seem to be overkill except that it’s small enough to carry and will invaluable when you need …

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Size matters

Andy H 4th June 2021 Indian Leave a Comment

Having banged on for at least five years about the gap in the Indian range, between the Scout models and the Touring platform, it has …

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S&S Roller Rockers for Milwaukee Eight

Fon 3rd June 2021 New Products Leave a Comment

Here’s the one we’ve been waiting for since the Milwaukee Eight’s 4-valve heads were announced, except it’s not the one that most people expected: it …

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Roadmaster vs Roadmaster

Andy H 3rd June 2021 Indian Leave a Comment

Dropped in to MidWest Moto to get the first service on the Roadmaster and bumped into Bill from the Facebook Elites, Roadmaster and Chieftain group …

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What’s in a name: Softail Standard roadtested in American-V 106

Andy H 1st June 2021 Harley-Davidson Leave a Comment

Launched last year as a plain finish Street Bob, the FXST Softail Standard may well be the obvious name base entry level model in the …

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American-V 106 is on the digital high street!

Andy H 31st May 2021 American-V Leave a Comment

Yes, we did hope this would be a paper edition but the world hasn’t woken up enough for that to happen, and everything here is …

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Indian Project Scout 3K Voting

Andy H 25th May 2021 Indian 1 Comment

It’s five years since the last Project Scout competition was held, to both show the custom potential in Indian’s then-new middleweight models and celebrate the …

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A day of respite from deadlines …

Andy H 14th May 2021 American-V Leave a Comment

… well, nearly. I should be beating my head against a keyboard but I needed to get the Indian Vintage back to their UK base. …

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Quick quick, we’ll miss the ferry!!

Andy H 3rd May 2021 Harley-Davidson 2 Comments

Apologies for having lost the original video here: the privacy settings changed, so we can only share the edited highlights with you. You will all …

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Electra Glide Icon with the spirit of ’69

Andy H 27th April 2021 Harley-Davidson, New Products 1 Comment

If you caught our 2021 model news announcement in January, you might remember us wondering if the central console with “Revival’ script was something to …

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Another Vintage Year

Andy H 12th April 2021 Indian, New Models 1 Comment

Just when you thought you could write off another bit of parts bin engineering as … well, a bit of parts bin engineering, along comes …

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Indian Scout Bobber Twenty tested in AmV105

Andy H 31st March 2021 Harley-Davidson, Indian Leave a Comment

High bars and a low seat on a powerful middleweight are the ideal ingredients for a bobber designed to compete on the mean streets, and …

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Harley-Davidson Livewire tested in AmV105

Andy H 24th March 2021 Harley-Davidson Leave a Comment

The bike we said we wouldn’t cover got the most comprehensive roadtest of any bike we’ve ever taken on: no Harley-Davidson has looked less, gone …

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American-V talks to Ola Stenegärd: the man behind the new Indian Chief

Andy H 22nd March 2021 Indian, New Models 1 Comment

While best known in Europe for his work with a certain Bavarian motorcycle manufacturer, Ola Stenegärd has been a custom bike builder for all his …

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American-V 105 is on the superhighway

Andy H 15th March 2021 American-V Leave a Comment

Yes, sad to say the current issue of American-V is another digital issue because of the constraints of lockdown. BUT as with the digital issues …

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Harley-Davidson’s Pan America takes things back off-road!

Andy H 25th February 2021 Harley-Davidson, New Models 3 Comments

We’ve known about the arrival of Harley’s new Pan America for a while now, and throughout that time the world has focused on Harley’s audacity …

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New Indian Chiefs for 2021 raise the game!

Andy H 9th February 2021 Indian, New Models Leave a Comment

It has been a long time coming – and not for the want of us imploring Indian to do more with their Thunder Stroke motor …

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Indian misses the chance to formalise the Chout with the Chief Bobber …

Andy H 9th February 2021 Harley-Davidson 2 Comments

… but who cares: this is the Indian streetbike that we’ve been waiting for! More to follow: lots to get our heads round.

Indian 2021 part 2: FTR1200s

Andy H 26th January 2021 Indian, New Models 1 Comment

If you wondered why there was no mention of the FTR1200 in last year’s 2021 model year announcement, that’s because they weren’t ready to tell …

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Harley-Davidson 2021

Andy H 19th January 2021 Harley-Davidson, New Models Leave a Comment

  So, we now know what’s coming out of Harley-Davidson for 2021, most of which comes down to reading between the lines coupled with some …

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Harley 2021 model range announcement will be virtual, international and inclusive

Andy H 13th January 2021 Harley-Davidson 1 Comment

If you’re wondering why we still don’t know what Harley-Davidson’s MY21 range looks like, a combination of Covid and changes at the top of Harley-Davidson …

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