The Design Story

Four cylinders that changed everything

In 1969 a motorcycle arrived that rewrote the rules: the first mass-produced inline-four superbike, with a front disc brake and electric start, wrapped in a shape anyone could ride. Overnight the exotic became attainable, and the roar of four cylinders became the sound of a new era.

This design renders that machine in full — a café-racer built on the four-cylinder engine that started it all — drawn like a plate from an old workshop manual, the year 1969 struck beneath it in red.

• The Inline-Four
• Café Racer
• Disc Brake & Electric Start
• 1969

The Print

Front & back

Plate I · Front chest — DLF hexagon badge

Plate II · Full back — The Four Cylinder Revolution, 1969

The chest wears the De La Forme hexagon badge in tonal black; the back carries the full archive plate — the café-racer, the four-into-four exhaust, and the year 1969 — printed to sit quietly against the pigment-dyed ground.

Fabric & Fit

Specifications

Care

Keeping the wash

Machine wash cold, inside out, with like colours. Tumble dry low or hang to dry. Do not iron directly over the print. Because the fabric is pigment dyed, a gentle, gradual fade is part of the design — it will keep looking better the more you wear it.