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  • From the Archive: Made in Japan – The ‘Black Bomber’ and beyond – what went wrong?

    From the Archive: Made in Japan – The ‘Black Bomber’ and beyond – what went wrong?

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    Steve Cooper pulls no punches as he looks back on the 1965 UK debut of Honda’s first technically brilliant ‘big twin’, the CB450, and the enlarged 500T that followed. Someone once opined that, to know

  • From the archive: Festival of Legends at Hawkstone Park with Cumbria Twinshock: September 10/11, 2016

    From the archive: Festival of Legends at Hawkstone Park with Cumbria Twinshock: September 10/11, 2016

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    Words: Tim Britton Pics: Fiona Watson The weather is a major concern for any event organiser and the track record for the UK recently hasn’t been that good and as CDB pitched the gazebo and

  • The 2015 Bikers’ Classics Spa: July 3-5

    The 2015 Bikers’ Classics Spa: July 3-5

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    During the 13th edition of the Bikers’ Classics on the legendary circuit at Spa-Francorchamps competitors and spectators suffered from a heatwave with temperatures up to 37ºC. Jan Burgers suffered the heat to bring us the

  • Triumph TR6: The great escape artist

    Triumph TR6: The great escape artist

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    Words: Frank Melling Photos: Carol Melling The TR6 was born for the USA and enjoyed its moment of glory in an American movie. It was the Americans who pressed Triumph for a bigger capacity machine

  • From the Archive: Make yourself at home at the Victoria Bikers’ Pub

    From the Archive: Make yourself at home at the Victoria Bikers’ Pub

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    If you like the company of fellow motorcyclists in an atmosphere of live music, real ale and no-fuss British food, lots of rideouts and bike gatherings throughout the year, the Victoria Bikers’ Pub could be

  • From the archive: Born to perform?

    From the archive: Born to perform?

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    Pete Kelly turns to the Mortons Motorcycle Archive once again to see how the reporters of the day saw three entirely different kinds of motorcycles named after famous race circuits.

  • A brief history of motorcycle sidecars

    A brief history of motorcycle sidecars

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    Uncommon as they are today, sidecars are an interesting footnote in motorcycling history…

  • From the Archive: Memories of Mike

    From the Archive: Memories of Mike

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    We asked Racer readers to send us their recollections of the young Mike Hailwood. Sydney Webster and Jock Leyden sent us theirs…

  • Debut of a King

    Debut of a King

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    The location is San Carlos in Venezuela and it would be an inauspicious start to their 500 campaign as a mechanical issue side-lined rider Kenny Roberts and reigning champ Barry Sheene would win. It wasn’t

  • Gregg Hansford

    Gregg Hansford

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