{"id":44833,"date":"2016-05-24T13:11:13","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T12:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.influx.co.uk\/?p=44833"},"modified":"2022-06-22T16:07:35","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T15:07:35","slug":"zaeta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/blog\/zaeta\/","title":{"rendered":"Zaeta: Street Trackers with chops…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Artwork By Maxwell Paternoster, pics from El Solitario<\/em><\/p>\n

There\u2019s something perennially appealing about the street\/tracker setup. And none so appealing as the Zaeta. <\/strong><\/p>\n

And El Solitario MC recently blogged about a very special creation that hones the sit-up-and-beg format of dirt track racing perfectly.<\/p>\n

Zaeta is the brainchild of Paolo Chiala. He tells it like it is. “Zaeta was born in the seventies when, in Valpolicella, I used to ride around a field with a cherry tree in the middle on Piaggio Ciao moped, trying to drift the back wheel,” he says. “The joy of precarious balance is a primitive one and is linked to some of the earliest challenges of youth as far back as a child\u2019s first steps. Then, in December 2008, a meeting with Graziano Rossi gave the project the spark of life. We spoke of a lightweight bike that could be drifted through both left and right turns and be used for training MotoGP riders. I was talking about a light, simple bike that could be ridden on the dirt or the road.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The result was Zaeta. Beautiful, stripped down Short Track bikes that are road legal and very desirable – especially if you inhabit the rural corners of the planet.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re the sort of rider who like to use their bike rather than simply look at it, it’s difficult not to see an adaptable bike like this to be bang-on. It can be ridden on the rough lanes and potholed byways of the world. Proper commuter thrills, these too – if you live in any sort of smoke. But rest assured these bikes will roar and reach like the best of them when you get out onto that dual carriageway.<\/p>\n

Sure, your average enduro machine from someone like KTM or any of the mainstream Japanese manufacturers would do an awesome job – but they\u2019re too purposeful in a way – and too covered in racing stickers and stripes and logos – all the paraphernalia of the off-road racing scene, to catch a proper stylish dash.<\/p>\n

El Solitario are unveiling their own custom Zaeta at the Wheels and Waves\/Sideburn magazine<\/a> event in beautiful San Sebastien on June 6.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s going to be a proper do.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\t\t