SuperBike Magazine June 2020

2 Editors Note
WELCOME TO THE JUNE ISSUE
This Covid Lock
down has seriously
hampered our
forward progress, everything we
do has just ground to a halt but
we are slowly starting to get our
forward planning together and
although we can’t race yet, we can
test bikes and we can do a little
training. We are planning on going
back to print for the July issue
and that should make a lot of you
happy,(thank you to all the guys
phoning and finding out if we are
still O.K.). What this did was make
me realise that with this electronic
magazine we are reaching
a whole lot of new people we have
not reached before and unfortunately
we are also not getting to
many of our old loyal readers, a
lot of whom did not know what
was going on. Most of the guys
who phoned were not aware of the
electronic version available for free
and only once they phoned did we
make it available to them. Strange
how many are not on Facebook
and websites. There is actually a
lesson here for all of us who want
to reach the actual bikers who buy
motorcycles.
Good news to all of you electronic
wizz kids, we will carry on
with the free down loads going
forward and all back issue will
also be available on our newly
revamped web site also for free. So
please go to www.superbikemag.
co.za and go and have a look at
what we have done for you.
To all the guys who do love
print, please support us by taking
out a subscription with our Arai
helmet offer. We now have a
system that couriers the magazine
straight to your door before it hits
the shelves as long as you are on
the newspaper delivery routes.
This system has proved much
more reliable than our Post Office
system. So for R349 for 12 issues,
you won’t find better service and
price anywhere.
So onto our June electronic
magazine.
In this issue I’ve had a glimpse
into future this last month and
I’m not convinced I like it. Yes I’m
talking about electric bikes. We
had the opportunity in this month
to try out arguably the words best
electric motorbikes from Energica
and although I was very impressed,
I left the test with a funny
feeling, it did not stir my soul,
the technology and performance
is staggering but something is
lacking, more about that later in
the magazine.
Something that did stir my
soul was the new 1290R Super-
Duke. We’ve run the world launch
articles previously but this was
my first ride on one and yes, on
paper everything is fairly similar
to what was before but in reality,
all the fine tweaks have made this
into one of the best, smoothest
all rounded road motorcycle
out there. It’s got a little bit of
everything in it, for sure a split
personality bike and all of them
available with just a little further
twist of the throttle. We got the 2
previous generation versions out
at the same time just to see if we
remembered them correctly.
This is also the month of the
Isle of Man, or should be and we
share with you what Peter Hickman’s
bike was going to be and
what it takes to prepare this bike.
We had our first ride on the new
Triumph Rocket 3R and GT, Daniel
rides the R49k Suzuki 250 Gixxer
and we report on MotoGP and what
our SA lads are doing in the USA.
Till next time, stay safe and go
buy the bread and milk on your
bike, it’s great being out on two
wheels again.
Clinton Pienaar
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Bill Hunter
Adam Child
Roland Brown
Mat Oxley
Wes Reyneke
Michael Nicolaou
Michael Mann
Phil West
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