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  • Book Review: Giacomo Agostini – A Life in Pictures

    Book Review: Giacomo Agostini – A Life in Pictures

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    Book reviewed by Jonathan Hill Giacomo Agostini is, still, Italy’s most successful and most glamorous motorcycle road racer and, some would argue, the greatest riders of all time. They would have good reason too, when you

  • Vincent Motorcycles: The Untold Story since 1946

    Vincent Motorcycles: The Untold Story since 1946

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    GIVEN THE VINCENT’S reputation as one of the most remarkable motorcycles ever manufactured, any book which attempts to cover the subject needs to be similarly accomplished. This massive hardback, which runs to 400 fact-packed, full-colour

  • Book Review: ‘Sox’ Gary Hocking – the forgotten World Motorcycle Champion

    Book Review: ‘Sox’ Gary Hocking – the forgotten World Motorcycle Champion

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        Gary Hocking was born near Newport, South Wales in 1937 but grew up in Southern Rhodesia, now known as Zimbabwe when his family emigrated in 1947. Nicknamed ‘Sox’ because of his aversion to

  • Far Horizons by Andrew Earnshaw

    Far Horizons by Andrew Earnshaw

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    f you’re going to ride around the world in instalments, then America would seem like a fairly safe place to

  • 1956 Norton Dominator Diary, Chapter 10

    1956 Norton Dominator Diary, Chapter 10

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    Jim Algar was galloping on with his restoration on a Norton twin. And then he discovered that his cylinder head has… shrunk!

  • Royal Enfield Bullet 500

    Royal Enfield Bullet 500

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    Emm collects her new classic bike. Emm loves her new classic bike. The new classic bike wasn’t yet available for comment…

  • 1954 150cc Gilera Rebuild, Part 2 (of about 50, at this rate!)

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    First rule of restorations: be certain you know what you’re dealing with. Initially, Russ Gannicott was certain he was dealing with a 153cc Rossa. Now he’s certainly… confused!

  • Harley Davidson FXST Softail Standard Anniversary

    Harley Davidson FXST Softail Standard Anniversary

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    You want a modern bike with classic style. How do you choose? Steve The Toast explains how he ended up with a Harley Softail…

  • The People

    The People

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    This handsome hardback aims to captures the spirit, excitement and danger of the world’s most famous motorcycle road race series. We asked Bill Nelson to read it and he went quite quiet (for a while)…

  • Laverda SF750

    Laverda SF750

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    In the 1970s Dave Minton first greeted the idea of a high-speed, high-mileage 750cc parallel twin with suspicion, but he was fast won over. Here’s how, and why…

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