Lexmoto Vendetta
DO YOU OWN A CLASSIC MOTORCYCLE? GREAT, aren’t they? You’d ride them all the time, if you could. But sometimes, well, it’s just not practical. Perhaps it’s raining and your electrical system is troublesome. Or the farmers have been out spreading the contents of their fields over the roads. Or the nights are getting darker, and that six-volt headlight bulb isn’t exactly illuminating. The magneto is playing up, and the clutch needs a tweak. And those city streets are a bit slippery too and the five inch 50-year-old drum brake isn’t really up to it. And you just want to nip down the shops, or to the pub, and know the bike will start when you’ve got kitted up and when you want to go home, possibly after a 15 mile detour just for fun.
Lots of people solve this dilemma by buying a modern retro bike to do the job in such circumstances. But at £6k-plus a pop, the big ones swallow up a lot of money. And they
