Motorcycle Sport & Leisure

Paranoia and the passing of time

We find ourselves rapidly approaching the end of 2023, a year which has been rather important for motorcycling, mostly down to the number of anniversaries that have been celebrated more than for any monumental model launch or change in political strategy that enforces everyone over the age of 17 to take their motorcycle test (we can but dream).

Aside from the obvious one of Harley-Davidson’s 120th, with the pinnacle being the massive rallies in Hungary and the ‘Homecoming’ event in Milwaukee, and BMW hitting their Centennial (of which I feel they’ve been surprisingly quiet), there are also a handful of other, perhaps slightly less significant milestones such as it

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