Langen Two-Stroke 250 Back to the Future

First ride on the debut model produced by Langen Motorcycles, the limited edition 250cc Two Stroke repli-racer produced by Britain’s newest manufacturer that’s now in production

- By Alan Cathcart. Photo by Kel Edge

It’s been almost two full decades since the much-loved road-legal ring-ding race replicas epitomised by the Suzuki RGV250 and Aprilia RS250 two-stroke twins disappeared from dealer showrooms in 2004, victims of ever-tightening emissions and noise environmental edicts. But now, thanks to a somewhat improbable tie-up between a group of current and former Ferrari engineers in Italy, and the British designer who invented the hardnosed hooligan-bikes now sold so successfully by England’s historic offroad brand, CCM, the wait for the strokers’ resurgence is finally over, thanks to an exciting new British manufacturer, Langen Motorcycles.