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The Voxan is handsome, but I think I'd prefer a Guzzi powered Saxon.

 

:mg:

Awesome Machine!

Is that made by the Saxon Motorcycle company that makes choppers and S&S engined bikes?

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What about a Wakan? http://www.engmore.com/home.html

 

I wish I had never got involved in this thread: I'm thoroughly unsettled now! I had never heard of the Wakan, which looks like a motorcycle designed in someone's favourite motorcycle-designing dream. And it's French! The Saxon looks gorgeous, too.

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Awesome Machine!

Is that made by the Saxon Motorcycle company that makes choppers and S&S engined bikes?

no this is an english saxon. They made/make frame with a hossack front like the swallower guzzi has, first with Laverda engines, and later with the triumph 3 cil. The last one was raced by Alan Cathcarth.

LAter they have done something on the Muz scorpion design. Motodd is a name cole to that and I think Nigel Hill was the designer.

 

http://www.saxonracing.co.uk/

http://www.richtea.demon.co.uk/laverda/gallery/mark5.htm

http://www.biker.co.nz/Reviews.asp?id=154

http://www.motorcycle.com/mo/mcmail/bears/saxon.html

http://www.btinternet.com/~nigel.hill4/saxtrakforks.htm

 

maybe our english members know more about recent things from saxon, because all I can find is pretty old.

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i rode a Voxan Cafe Racer a couple of years ago. The engine was potent enough but comes with a very annoying metallic ticking note. It's bulky to ride, but the handling was ok.

All the people I know who own one had troubles with it, and terrible service apres vente...

 

now, i think the price isn't bad considering it's really a bike that won't sell many numbers so it's a collector already and that isn't cheap.

 

the new look is ok, if it wasn't for the fairing that is obviously a LM copy.

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All the people I know who own one had troubles with it, and terrible service apres vente...

 

That's something to remember. Thanks. <_>

 

The local Voxan dealer is also my Moto Guzzi dealer. All the same.............

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nice enough looking bikes, but I've made a personal boycott of french goods. :ninja:

 

Very sensible: we send foreigners all the rubbish, anyway!

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You are mistaken. The Hesketh is a fine motorcycle,.... uncanny.

Hesketh – uncanny indeed.

 

 

uncanny adjective: 'the Hesketh was uncanny' eerie, unnatural, unearthly, preternatural, supernatural, otherworldly, ghostly, mysterious, strange, unsettling, abnormal, weird, bizarre, surreal, eldritch; informal creepy, spooky, freakish, freaky.

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Hesketh – uncanny indeed.

uncanny adjective: 'the Hesketh was uncanny' eerie, unnatural, unearthly, preternatural, supernatural, otherworldly, ghostly, mysterious, strange, unsettling, abnormal, weird, bizarre, surreal, eldritch; informal creepy, spooky, freakish, freaky.

 

So, sounds like an ideal ride for an evil fairy like me.... Don't you think?

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an evil fairy like me....

I din't know that you're evil

:rolleyes:

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I din't know that you're evil

:rolleyes:

 

Well, I try to maintain a facade of evilitudinousness. As a delicate elven creature with pretty wings, it is essential to my masculinity. Were I to allow my good side to come to the fore, I would probably be expected to give up the Buell and the V11 and go about in an MX 5 or a soft top Street Ka

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Well, I try to maintain a facade of evilitudinousness. As a delicate elven creature with pretty wings, it is essential to my masculinity. Were I to allow my good side to come to the fore, I would probably be expected to give up the Buell and the V11 and go about in an MX 5 or a soft top Street Ka

 

Can I come and see you for a tint next time I'm in the UK? You did say you were self-employed, so you'll have your own kit if I need a blow-dry?

 

Edit: I said blow-DRY

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