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metropolis feature
august/september 1998


best bikes


best bikes



Few people, certainly, would have bet on Starck's designing a motorcycle, let alone a beautiful, successful bike like the 1995 Aprilia 6.5 Moto.
(Courtesy Guggenheim Museum Soho)


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David Robb's BMW R1200C Cruiser has the utilitarian tradition of BMW motorcycle design, in which a bike's style emerges (if at all) gradually, out of the machine.

(Photo by David Heald, Guggenheim Museum Soho)


best bikes



John Britten's machine, released in 1994, was hand-built for racing and assembled around a light, immensely strong, incredibly smooth 1000cc 60-degree V-Twin engine of his own design.
(Photo by David Heald, Guggenheim Museum Soho)
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