[AzCal Retred]

Birmingham-based Mutt Motorcycles launch new Stravaig 401 twin-cylinder adventure bike

https://www.motorcyclenews.com/news/new-bikes/2024/august/mutt-motorcycles-stravaig-401/

Mutt Motorcycles, famed for their laid-back low-capacity retro nakeds, are branching out into the adventure bike segment with a new 36.2bhp Stravaig 401 twin priced at £4995 plus OTR costs.
Said to be available from September 2024, the bike comes in a choice of matt green or matt black and is designed to slot into the rapidly expanding accessible A2 licence adventure segment – facing off against established competition including the £6599 KTM 390 Adventure and £6579 Honda CRF300 Rally, as well as Chinese produced alternatives like the £5699 CFMoto 450MT.
The Stravaig is the Birmingham-based company’s largest motorcycle to date, featuring a 401cc liquid-cooled, 8v, DOHC parallel twin-cylinder engine. Maximum power comes at 8500rpm, with a claimed 23.6lb.ft of torque arriving at 6500rpm.
It’s a step away from the norm for the company, who were established in 2013 and have established a reputation for largely producing affordable air-cooled retros, using engines inspired by Suzuki’s old GN125 unit.
However, if the Stravaig looks at all familiar, that’s because the bike shares some traits with the former Sinnis Terrain 380. First launched in the UK back in 2020, the bike was built by Zongshen in China, before being re-badged as a Sinnis.

[him a layin]

former Sinnis Terrain 380.

sinister rain 380. i rather like it.

[AzCal Retred]

Sinister Rain - your preferred musical choice! 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYQ4TeuWOc8

https://www.visordown.com/reviews/road-test/adventure-motorcycles-sinnis-terrain-380-2021-review

https://www.motorcyclenews.com/bike-reviews/sinnis/terrain-380/2020/

[him a layin]

Sinister Rain - your preferred musical choice! 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYQ4TeuWOc8

oops sorry, didn't know that was a thing. they may call that music, sounds like noise to me. but then that's what my parents said about purple haze.

[tooseevee]

sinister rain 380. i rather like it.

 It's a beautiful, accidental, play on words, isn't it?

  Sort of Pier Anthonyish. Kinda. Maybe? No? Sorry   

   It is VERY seriously determined looking, isn't it? The Mutt. "I am VERY serious"   

   I have a tattoo that is similar in concept to their album cover (Sinister Rain).

[tooseevee]

oops sorry, didn't know that was a thing. they may call that music, sounds like noise to me. but then that's what my parents said about purple haze.

    With me it was BH & The Comets, Elvis, John Lee Hooker & Miles Davis. & then in1959..... OMG!*

    Now I'll STILL crank A/C-D/C whenEVER they come on  or Needle &TDD.

   * & I NEVER say OMG!

[him a layin]

    With me it was BH & The Comets, Elvis, John Lee Hooker & Miles Davis. & then in1959..... OMG!*

before my time, you're obviously older than i am. '68 or 69 when i first started driving to and from school, cruising with the car radio on was my wake-up call.

[Leofric]

before my time, you're obviously older than i am. '68 or 69 when i first started driving to and from school, cruising with the car radio on was my wake-up call.

You drove to school !
When I was at school no pupils ever drove to school , even if they were old enough to have a driving licence.

[him a layin]

You drove to school !

yes, i drove a 5 yr old rattletrap dodge dart. that car's a classic now, back then it was near-junk..

[tooseevee]

You drove to school !
When I was at school no pupils ever drove to school , even if they were old enough to have a driving licence.

    I drove to school Sophomore, Junior & Senior years because I had a job. We who had jobs had Home Room 6th Period & were allowed to leave. '40 Ford DeLuxe Sedan, Hunter Green, chrome grille, Southwind heater. I graduated in 1956. James Dean & Bill Vukovich died the year before. We wore black armbands. Sterling Moss was in his prime.

[AzCal Retred]

I rode my 500cc H1 Kamakazi triple to high school. Winter is pretty mild in the low desert, but I still got to see my instruments frost over while passing thru low lying areas where cold air had gathered over night. Summers were brutal, I remember having the skin peel off of my wrists in two 2" bands from windburn where my gloves ended and my all-weather levi jacket had ridden up on a 130 mile round trip to Kingman. Amazingly the big Kaw never missed a beat, hot or cold.

[him a layin]

I rode my 500cc H1 Kamakazi triple to high school. Winter is pretty mild in the low desert, but I still got to see my instruments frost over while passing thru low lying areas where cold air had gathered over night. Summers were brutal, I remember having the skin peel off of my wrists in two 2" bands from windburn where my gloves ended and my all-weather levi jacket had ridden up on a 130 mile round trip to Kingman. Amazingly the big Kaw never missed a beat, hot or cold.

i didn't know you had an H1 too! superb motorcycles. i paid $500 for a slightly used 75 in maybe 1978 rode it around central fl, then once to denver and back, never failed me. superb motorcycles, did i already say that?

[tooseevee]

I rode my 500cc H1 Kamakazi triple to high school. Winter is pretty mild in the low desert, but I still got to see my instruments frost over while passing thru low lying areas where cold air had gathered over night. Summers were brutal, I remember having the skin peel off of my wrists in two 2" bands from windburn where my gloves ended and my all-weather levi jacket had ridden up on a 130 mile round trip to Kingman. Amazingly the big Kaw never missed a beat, hot or cold.

    My brother-in-law had one of those for a while in the early '70s. I think it scared being any kind of biker out of him because he never rode any more after he sold it.

[him a layin]

    My brother-in-law had one of those for a while in the early '70s. I think it scared being any kind of biker out of him because he never rode any more after he sold it.

supposedly the suspension was pretty rough the first couple of years, which was how it earned the moniker "widow maker". i suspect it had more to do with how you rode it. i'm sorta looking for another one, or a kh400, or an s3 or s2, nothing else quite measures up, certainly not the himalayan.

[AzCal Retred]

As a snot-nosed kid I enjoyed opening the volume control and watching the speedo rocket up to 100. Niceties like tire/tube condition, cross traffic, road surface condition, animals or people wandering into my path, collecting a raven/dove/quail to the chest at speed, I just rode on heedless of all of those possibilities - supremely confident that youthful cat-like reflexes would save me. After a year of being out on my own, paying my own bills and finally realizing the reality of the situation I toned it down. That and 6 weeks in traction.