{"id":890,"date":"2014-10-18T14:32:40","date_gmt":"2014-10-18T14:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/american-v.cso2w.com\/?p=890"},"modified":"2018-02-26T01:17:46","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T01:17:46","slug":"44-magnum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/american-v.cso2w.com\/hub\/44-magnum\/","title":{"rendered":".44 Magnum?"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ll see Victory’s Magnum\u00a0\u2013 which we assume was named after the .357 caliber Magnum cartridge rather than the ice cream \u2013 at this year’s Motorcycle Live at the NEC, but while the folk in Spirit Lake were slotting a 21-inch front wheel into a Cross Country before applying a thick and lustrous layer of metalflake paint, Andy Malham at Thundercity in Leeds had been on the phone to Ness and they were swapping-out the front end of another Cross Country for Ness’ 23-inch kit! And while they were about it, they switched the chrome for matt black and repainted the originally black sheet metal in a Pearlescent White.<\/p>\n

Andy calls it the\u00a0Cross Dresser<\/em>: I prefer the\u00a0.44 Magnum<\/em>, as made famous by Harry Callaghan.<\/p>\n

Did we want to take it out for a quickspin, to see what difference an extra few inches made?<\/p>\n

Silly question really.<\/p>\n

\"OLYMPUS\"OLYMPUS\"OLYMPUS\"OLYMPUS<\/p>\n

The full shoot (no pun intended) and many more details will be in American-V issue 71! Out in early December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’ll see Victory’s Magnum\u00a0\u2013 which we assume was named after the .357 caliber Magnum cartridge rather than the ice cream \u2013 at this year’s Motorcycle … <\/p>\n

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