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The Ducati-Powered Swiss Army Motorcycle

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The Ducati-Powered Swiss Army Motorcycle

The Condor A350 was developed in the early 1970s as a motorcycle for the Swiss Army, the 350cc engine from the Ducati 350 Scrambler was used and they built the rest of the motorcycle around it locally. It was designed to be tough, simple, and mountain goat-like in its ability to traverse steep mountain passes.

It’s believed that just 3,000 examples of the Condor A350 were ever made, with the last examples retired by the Swiss Army in the 1990s. They’re now considered highly collectible in vintage motorcycle circles.

Fast Facts – The Condor A350

  • The Condor A350 was produced in Switzerland in the 1970s as a motorcycle exclusively for the Swiss military. The design earned a reputation for its toughness and its ability to go anywhere, and it remained in military service well into the 1990s.
  • For strategic purposes, Condor-Werke AG was tasked with building as much of the
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Pinarello goes electric with their new Nytro-E Road, Gravel, and Allroad

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Pinarello goes electric with their new Nytro-E Road, Gravel, and Allroad

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Pinarello has launched a new lineup of electric bikes, both for road, gravel, and urban options. Dubbed Nytro E, these e-bikes share that typical Pinarello design language, adapted just enough to meet the needs of electric assist. Importantly, all three model lines use the new TQ-HPR50 motor. 

Pinarello goes electric with their new Nytro-E Road, Gravel, and Allroad
Your first hit of the Royal Forest colorway, courtesy of a downtube big enough to fit a 350 Wh battery.

Hot on the heels of the recently-released Pinarello F-Series road bike and Grevil F gravel bike, the new Nytro E lineup seeks to capitalize on the brand’s unique design language with what feels like an “acoustic” bike, just with a bit of electric assistance.

Goldilocks found their match with the TQ HPR-50

Pinarello’s original electric road bike, the Nytro, used a Fazua Evation drive unit and motor. However, that

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Dubai hosts another record-breaking stunt as pilot makes history with “Bullseye Landing” of a plane on the iconic Burj Al Arab helipad – Lifestyle – Travel

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Dubai hosts another record-breaking stunt as pilot makes history with “Bullseye Landing” of a plane on the iconic Burj Al Arab helipad – Lifestyle – Travel
  • Dubai hosts another record-breaking stunt as pilot makes history with “Bullseye Landing” of a plane on the iconic Burj Al Arab helipad

  • With no visual cues to guide him in, Red Bull Air Race Champion Luke Czepiela expertly lands a nitrous-powered fixed-wing aircraft 212 metres above the ground on the world-famous hotel.

  • Luke Czepiela: I am grateful to Dubai and to the people and organisations who helped me achieve my dream. It is an honour to become a part of the Burj Al Arab’s impressive history.

  • “My greatest passion is aerobatics. I have flown under bridges and landed on piers. But the Burj Al Arab landing was different. It was an 11 out of 10 in difficulty.”

  • Burj Al Arab, known for hosting incredible events such as Federer and Agassi’s 2005 tennis match and Kriss Kyle’s 2019 BMX stunt, strengthens its position as a top
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Bike industry turmoil continues as Forme bikes and Lake cycling shoes distributor enters liquidation

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Bike industry turmoil continues as Forme bikes and Lake cycling shoes distributor enters liquidation

More evidence of challenging times for the bike industry as Moore Large — the UK distributor for brands such as Tern Bicycles, Lake, Forme, ETC, Emmelle and MeThree — has entered liquidation.

road.cc has contacted Moore Large for comment and there has been no official word from the brand, but the news was first reported in a post on LinkedIn by Greg Connell of InfolinkGazette who notes the distributor “filed a Notice of Appointment to appoint an administrator in the High Court” on Monday.

Prominent active travel journalist Carlton Reid has since tweeted about the situation, saying: “Went last night. Staff meeting today at 10am. All redundant. 20 staff being kept in accounts and admin. Company cars being collected today.”


Bike industry turmoil continues as Forme bikes and Lake cycling shoes distributor enters liquidation

The company formed from the bike shop opened by John Moore in 1947, the Derby-based distributor was founded 30 years later and owned by the Moore family up until last

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Leaked! Wireless Campagnolo Super Record WRL with 10-tooth cassette

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Leaked! Wireless Campagnolo Super Record WRL with 10-tooth cassette

Campagnolo looks set to go fully wireless with its new 12-speed electronic groupset, dubbed Super Record WRL, while also ditching the brand’s iconic thumb shifter, according to an FCC licence filed by Campag and product leaks seen on retailer websites.

It’s no secret that a Campagnolo road groupset update is overdue, given the brand hasn’t updated any of its line-up since 2019.

Now Campagnolo appears to be following SRAM in going full wireless and that appears, from this leak at least, to mean a whole new shifter design.

The new groupset also appears to use a 10-tooth starting sprocket on the cassette, new chainring sizes, Campagnolo’s ProTech bottom bracket and new disc brake rotors.

While all of this points to a revamped electronic groupset, the future of Campagnolo’s mechanical groupsets is unclear and it remains to be seen if Campagnolo will produce a rim brake variant of the new groupset.

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