Who doesn’t love race duplicate? Be it on or off-road, motorbike producers leverage the success of their racing initiatives by making homages of their racing machines accessible to us mere mortals. This is undoubtedly most evident within the off-road scene, the place dirtbikes are sometimes adorned in loud and rambunctious liveries that mirror their racy counterparts everywhere in the world.
The newest on this lengthy line of fashions is from French off-road and enduro model Sherco, and its 2024 300 SEF Hamish Macdonald Replica.
If you’ll be able to’t guess from the title, this race duplicate has been designed utilizing the livery of two-time Enduro World Champion Hamish MacDonald, and can be produced in restricted portions to set itself other than the usual 300 SEF Factory.
The Sherco 300 SEF completed in Hamish MacDonald’s racing livery
But the race-inspired goodies go effectively past only a fancy livery, because the bike comes with Sherco Factory enduro bolstered wheels, measuring 21 inches up entrance and 18 inches on the again, and so as to add additional rigidity, the wheels are laced by way of blue CNC-machined mass-cut hubs.
The blue parts proceed with a bunch of CNC goodies corresponding to chain tensioners, an ignition cowl cap, grasp cylinder covers, entrance axle puller, and oil filler cap. Of course, the 300 SEF is already a succesful machine out of the field, and the Hamish MacDonald Replica will get all the usual parts of the race-ready machine.
It’s powered by a four-stroke DOHC, four-valve engine displacing 308.68 cubes respiration by way of a full Akrapovic exhaust system. Suspension {hardware} can also be top-tier, with a KYB closed-cartridge fork up entrance, and a KYB 50 shock on the rear.
It breathes by way of a full Akrapovic exhuast system
Matchy blue CNC goodies adorn the bike
The 300 class of enduro bikes is taken into account by many as the right center floor on the subject of off-road using, as they’re a lot succesful, however not too overbearing to throw you off when issues get dicey. As somebody who rides off-road, I do know full effectively {that a} 300cc dirtbike is greater than sufficient to have tons of enjoyable with on the paths.
Meanwhile, on the racing facet of the equation, the success of racers like Hamish MacDonald aboard 300-class machines is a testomony to the flexibility of the category, and the truth that Sherco is providing a race-replica of his bike to the general public will certainly rile up enduro lovers.