I've been out working, riding and relaxing up north for two days, but just before I left an email press release arrived. I called the number, no one answered but Mark and Ellis of Mac Motorcycles called back later. I had a good chat with Mark of Xenophya Design. His company is half of Mac Motorcycles, a new Brit firm who is hoping, well. here's what they say... Read it then check the website. It's a nice place to hang out.
Worcestershire, Great Britain, 28/05/09 -A collaboration between one of the UK’s leading motorcycle design studios, Xenophya Design and Ellis Pitt has led to the launch of a new British motorcycle company called ‘Mac Motorcycles’.
Ellis has collaborated with the team at Xenophya for the past 9 months to design a small range of lightweight, air-cooled singles using the 500cc Buell ‘Blast’ motor in a tubular backbone frame.
Ellis explains “Between us we’d designed, modified, built and ridden all sorts of motorcycles over the last 30 years and thought it was time to produce a motorcycle that reflected our philosophy. Our influences have been diverse and we’ve made unusual connections between genres of motorcycles such as choppers, Italian singles from the 1950s, flat-trackers and competition specials. What underpins Mac Motorcycles’ philosophy though is the belief that the riding experience and the stories that go with motorcycle journeys seem to have been hijacked by technology and plastic.”
There are 4 different models ; ‘Spud’, for dossing about on, ‘Ruby’, the motorcycle equivalent of ‘the girl-next-door’, ‘Peashooter’, for squirting to your favourite pub and gassing with your mates and the ‘Roarer’, a modern-day dinosaur-chaser! The company initially plans to produce a few hundred bikes in small batches increasing production as appropriate.
Based in the small English town of Upton-Upon-Severn in Worcestershire, Mac Motorcycles plan to market this unique new range of motorcycles throughout the world. Bikes will be made in small batches for markets in the UK, North America and Japan, with customers in France and Australia in-mind too. Depending on your preferred specification and tuning options, you could expect to buy any one of these bikes for between £ 8k - £ 10k.
Ellis explains “We would welcome comments and enquiries from your readers and we’ll be happy to keep you posted as we start building a little more of Great Britain’s motorcycle history.”
Additional information is contained in the company's new web site at www.mac-motorcycles.com
8-10k? Feck! Why the Buell Blast motor? Rotax, Yam or Honda might have given more tuning potential than half an HD motor...
ReplyDeletelOve the rOund hOles flOw, the aCe spAces, the flOurished fOnt swirly serifed q's, the nick names - Spud Gun Murphy, Ruby Tuesday - and the use of the word 'mooch'.
ReplyDeleteI'm in a good mood. Spanish sun is shining and I've got a hired XR and a tall-mate's top-boxed Transalp, but in my head I'll be chipping a Spud with a high pipe and knobblies. Enamel effect white, I think, with heat taped pipes...
Suerte, Dan
Ampersand. That's the word I was looking for. Curvy like an ampersand. Which is ideal, because the cut-down Spud Murphy could become Bobber Amper-sands...
ReplyDeleteSuerte, Dan