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Icon's new ride: Death or Glory
By Ben Cope on 23/06/2010 11:54:34
'Created with a complete lack of common sense'. Icon, we salute you.
AMERICAN CLOTHING brand Icon don't just do clothes. They do bikes as well. Sort of.This is their latest creation, dubbed Death or Glory. Here's what Icon have to say about it. It's quite funny:For some people life is best lived when the choices
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Icon: George Formby
By Visordown on 22/10/2002 15:10:47
One of motorcycling's icons, would you believe it..
laughing for 65 years. That's a pretty good effort Mr Formby - you are a true biking icon.Comedy straw bowler hats off to the man.
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Icon: Che Guevara
By Bertie Simmonds on 22/10/2010 16:52:09
A political icon from the Swinging 60s and owner of the second most famous beret in the world (after Frank Spencer's) it's little known that Che was a very keen motorcyclist and biking author. Good on him...
was that in 1997, finally, one of the great American icons of motorcycling - Harley-Davidson - was allowed to set up shop in Havana. Maybe Che would have approved, after all, bikers everywhere know that there's no substitute for Cubas.Motorcycle Diaries: A Journey
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Bike Icon: Ducati 888
By Mark Forsyth on 08/09/2010 15:09:22
The Ducati 888 is the Great Grandaddy of the 1198 and its awesome racing pedigree bred a road legend whose racing history is crucial to its status
The 888 appeared out of necessity from under a leaky roof in Borgo Panigale, home of the Ducati factory. It was 1986. Ducati, then owned by the Castiglioni brothers, were skint but under the brilliant guidance of engineer Massimo Bordi they hatched a bike to speed them to racing ...
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Bike Icon: Norton Commando
By Mark Shippey on 14/09/2010 17:53:35
Much-loved and much maligned, the Norton Commando both saved and then helped to kill the British bike industry
importing in great numbers to the UK were suddenly being replaced with iconic bikes such as the CB750.The Commando was designed as a direct replacement to the ageing Atlas 750, even using the same 750cc vertical twin engine (which could be traced back still
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Icon - Peter Purves
By Warren Pole on 28/10/2010 15:32:01
A legend. Peter Purves has been in tons of cult TV shows and a stable of British television in Blue Peter and anchoring the Crufts dog show, but it is his role as the face of Kickstart for its entire 13-series run that we find Mr Purves here as an icon
If you don't remember Kickstart and Junior Kickstart (shame on you, what the bloody hell were you doing between 1979 and 1991?) it involved young, fearless pint-sized trials riders tackling ever-more improbable obstacles to the point where, by the final series, it was next to imp...
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Icon: David Essex
By Stuart Barker on 18/05/2009 13:05:41
He may have had 23 top 30 hits, but David will remain a one-race wonder
. And for inspiring all those '80s youngsters to have a crack at the 500 Grand Prix title on bikes they found in sheds. We salute you Mr Essex. You are a biking icon.This feature was first published in the February 2002 issue of TWO
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Icon - Lewis Collins
By TWO Staff on 15/05/2009 10:41:56
Professional Hard Man - In 'Who Dares Wins', Collins roared around on a Harris Magnum
In his rollercoaster career, Lewis Collins went from being the coolest action hero of the late '70s through to Bovril ad boy in the early '80s to Widow Twanky in panto in the '90s.We'll forget his later indiscretions - he had to earn a living, after all - but to young lads in the...
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ICON!
By Visordown News on 05/09/2006 17:33:40
Clint Eastwood rides again
Images don't come much more iconic than this. Ingredients: a helmet-less Clint Eastwood, export-spec Norton P11 and Big Ben. That's it - we don't need any more words because this picture is already worth a thousand of 'em
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Bike Icon: Kawasaki KR-1
By Harriet Ridley on 22/10/2010 10:44:42
Looking like it had been waved out of pitlane and on to the road, the KR-1 arrived in a puff of blue smoke back in 1988
For a few unforgettable years, Kawasaki dominated the 250cc two-stroke and 400cc four-stroke classes in Britain with one small stinkwheel - the mad, bad KR-1 250.The origins of this great motorcycle can be traced back to the late 1970s, when Kawasaki's tandem twin (one cylinder d...
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