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Top tips for selling your classic motorcycle
Try to consider your own bike - the bike you're selling - through the eyes of the buyer.
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September 9, 2021
Learner’s guide to motorcycle insurance
Right, so you’ve passed your CBT, bought some kit and found a bike you like – what’s left to do before you can ride on the road legally? That’s right. You’ve still got to sort some insurance.
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September 9, 2021
Is the future electric?
As the electric bicycle/motorcycle concept increases in popularity, will it go the way of pioneer motorcycling... or autocycles?
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September 9, 2021
50 Years of the Super Glide
Take a trip back in time with the 1971 H-D Super Glide Boat Tail...
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August 5, 2021
Weird and wonderful
This amazing photograph of a Wallis-JAP at Brooklands is noteworthy for its unusual subject, and its clarity. The rider-designer, George Wallis, was later the man who initiated the concept which spawned the Ariel 3.
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May 18, 2021
Archive: In search of sunshine
Despite the economic hardships of the time and the fact the exchange rate was terrible, a European tour was still undertaken.
Features - Shannon Butcher
May 12, 2021
The first modern motorcycles?
With an overhead camshaft engine and fully circulating oil system, plus sparkling performance, the first generation ‘cammy’ Velocettes certainly make a case.
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May 10, 2021
Where does the passenger go?
Dictionaries inform the sidecar is: ‘a jaunting-car; small car attached to the side of a motorcycle; kind of cocktail.’ We’ll forget jaunting-cars and cocktails, but how did the world arrive at the sidecar? And what came before?
Features - Shannon Butcher
May 7, 2021
International Women's Day: Celebrating women in motorcycling
Forget about motorcycling being a lads’ world. There are – and always have been – plenty of women riding fast and far.
Features - Sam Hewitt
March 8, 2021
On this day: Beryl Swain was born
On what would have been her 85th birthday, we take a look at back at the first woman ever to achieve a solo finish in a TT race, Beryl Swain.
Features - Sam Hewitt
January 22, 2021
John Newbold: From Darley Moor to Grand Prix winner
John Newbold, born in Jacksdale, Nottinghamshire on December 14 1952, but he was raised in South Normanton where his parents ran a butcher’s shop.
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December 15, 2020
Our Black Friday magazine subscription sale is now on!
Black Friday is here and we’ve been busy driving down the prices on some of our favourite products for a limited time only.
Features - Sam Hewitt
November 26, 2020
Rev your engines, Classic Superbikes by Frank Melling is here
There are many great books about classic motorcycling which are packed with fascinating technical information and critical dates in a bike’s production life. Classic Superbikes, by Frank Melling, isn’t one of them.
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October 8, 2020
The story behind the name: Sunbeam
It is a wonderfully provocative and positive name, Sunbeam, isn’t it?
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September 18, 2020
Barry Sheene: Life and career in pictures
Tributes to the late Barry Sheene have been paid on what would have been his 70th birthday. Here are some of the best photos of Sheene in action.
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September 11, 2020
On this day: TT winner Reg Armstrong born
A rash of chain breakages hindered his title aspirations – luckily the TT one happened at the right moment!
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September 1, 2020
Does BSA's Clubman DB32 have a claim as the best Gold Star?
There are myriad different Gold Stars, each with acclaim as being the ‘best’ – but the late 350cc version, the Clubman DB32, makes a strong claim.
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August 24, 2020
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