More than 20 years in the bike trade as owner of Flitwick Motorcycles
and a veteran TT campaigner on some seriously oddball bikes,
Steve Linsdell tells us how it is, was, and still could be
“The story began in 2002, that was the time we had finished the Adventure and we thought about other ideas to use the V-twin engine. We outsourced it to Kiska to make a prototype, in late 2002 the first prototype was finished and it was rideable. I believe it still exists.
“The RC8 shares only the gears from the LC8. We started with a list of common parts to make the project quicker and reduce costs, but at the end of the day only the forgings for the gears remained the same, the rest is totally new.