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Hoffmann MP250-2 Gouverneur: The Rise and Fall of the Baby Boxer

May 12, 2026

A fascinating journey into the post-war German motorcycle industry, where ambitious entrepreneurs like Jakob Oswald Hoffmann reached for the stars with the unique “Baby Boxer”- and flew just a little too close to the sun. […]

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Triumph’s last gasp: the abandoned Bandit

October 18, 2019

Besieged and battered they may have been, but Triumph’s boffins could see that the middleweights were the way of the future. With the Bandit and its badge-brother the BSA Fury, they were on the right track, but… In the early 1970s, the world […]

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