Classic Bike Guide

Twinshock Siesta

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There has been a new breeze blowing around motorcycling for a few years now and it seems to always include the word ‘adventure’. Adherents to the classic scene may have thought that this was, like all fads, something that would pass and bore little relevance to the pages of this magazine. Well, it’s been that way till now…

Readers may well be aware of a bike trip that happened 20 years ago, named ‘Mondo Enduro’. This was the first group of riders from anywhere in Western Europe to ever reach the legendary eastern Soviet prison town of Magadan, along

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