Reviews
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Overland to Vietnam
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On his earlier expeditions, Gordon G May rode a BSA Bantam to the pyramids of Egypt, and then a Royal
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Book Review: “Isle of Man TT – The Golden Years 1947-1962 Volume Two”
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Author: Mick Duckworth Published by: Lily Publications Ltd, PO Box 33, Ramsey, Isle of Man, IM99 4LP www.lilypublications.co.uk Fax: +44 (0) 1624 898 446 Hardback, 210 x 205mm (landscape); 96 pages with over 110 photographs
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Book Review: A truly Matchless apprenticeship
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Pete Kelly reviews Bill Cakebread’s newly-reprinted and wonderfully-evocative story of life in London during and just after the war, and his apprenticeship and early working life at AMC’s long-vanished Plumstead Road factory. Every now and
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Book Review: The Panther Story
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The Story of Phelon & Moore – Revised edition Author: Barry M Jones Published by: Barry M Jones, Unit 2, Rustic Crafts Workshop, Bixley Lane, Beckley, Rye, East Sussex TN31 6TH (First published by
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Tritons, TriBSAs and much more besides…
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Mention the words ‘café racer’ and many of us will go all bleary-eyed as we remember the Tritons and TriBSAs of old, gleaming in the sunshine with their race-style alloy tanks, clip-ons and rear-sets, alloy
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Book Review: The Honda Gold Wing
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Classic Four-Cylinder Bikes Author: Peter Rakestrow Published by: Amberley Publishing, The Hill, Merrywalks, Stroud, Gloucestershire GL5 4EP Tel: 01453 847823 Email: [email protected] www.amberley-books.com Softback, 165 x 235mm (portrait); 96 pages with approx. 100 photographs.
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The Motorcycle Files: insider info
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As you might imagine, after decades in the business of thrashing fast bikes around race tracks, journalist Alan Cathcart has
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Frank Melling: The Flying Penguin
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Frank Melling tells a mean tall story. You’d seek him out on Friday night, pint in hand, to hear ripping
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AJS and Matchless, Post-War Singles and Twins, The Complete Story
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After the Second World War, Associated Motor Cycles’ range of AJS and Matchless models helped put the British worker back on the road. With 350cc and 500cc AJS and Matchless-badged singles based on the military
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Book Reviews: The Flying Penguin:
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More stories of a freelance motorcycling journalist IN THIS SECOND part of his autobiography, Frank Melling continues telling the ripping yarns which he started in A Penguin In A Sparrow’s Nest. The Flying Penguin takes