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Buying Guide: Ducati 900s
Long wheelbase and lazy steering made cornering with the Ducati slow, but on twisty A-roads a Duke will still give a modern bike a run for its money
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II Mulo Meccanico
In the early 1960s the Moto Guzzi factory produced a three-wheel military vehicle – but it bequeathed to the motor cycle world the now familiar transverse vee-twin power unit
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Buying Guide: Honda CBX
Honda’s six cylinder 24-valve CBX was ground breaking when launched. And even now, its tech spec is rarely bettered
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Buying Guide: Yamaha FZ600
A parts-bin stop-gap measure it might have been, but Yamaha’s FZ600 turned out to be an absolute sensation
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Seventies hero: Dave Potter
In the heady superbike days of the Seventies the battles between the big 750cc two strokes were legend…
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Honda CB450 v Triumph 500
Jewels of the orient. We test Honda’s ‘Black Bomber’ CB450 against Triumph’s 500
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Buying Guide: MZ TS150
MZs were rarely treated with derision. Amusement, yes, but scorn, never. MZs were simple, robust, characterful, and actually performed pretty well
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Buying Guide: MZ TS150
MZs were rarely treated with derision. Amusement, yes, but scorn, never. MZs were simple, robust, characterful, and actually performed pretty well
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FN Four: engine profile
Belgium’s National Armanents factory produced a motorcycle that was well ahead of its time in 1905. But by 1926 it had fallen beind the opposition…
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McQueen’s Brough sold
What’s a good Brough Superior worth these days? If your answer to that is ‘a lot’ then you’re dead right!
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Harley Sporton – hand-built special
Tony Ingreys Harley-powered Sporton is the latest in a long line of hand-built specials to emerge from his dark, satanic workshop. Rod Gibson braved the Yorkshire Moors to find out more.
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Suzuki Katana 1260cc Project Bike
120bhp and an 11.42 second standing quarter from our project 1260 Katana.
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Honda CB750 Project Bike
Our Project CB750K1 hits the road as Editor Rod adds the finishing touches to the restoration.
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Wheel building
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Workshop: AJS-Matchless 500 twins
Service notes specifically for the AJS and Matchless 500cc twins, although it will generally apply to all AMC twins
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Buying Guide: Honda C50 step-thru
Don’t knock them. Honda’s C50 step-thru was on every street corner not long ago. Economical, reliable and cheap – they still have a lot to offer
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Buying Guide: Suzuki GT750
Reader Andy Jones had been after a Suzuki GT750 for ages to restore. Then, like buses, two came along at once
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Buying Guide: Honda C50 step-thru
Don’t knock them. Honda’s C50 step-thru was on every street corner not long ago. Economical, reliable and cheap – they still have a lot to offer
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Buying Guide: Suzuki GT750
Reader Andy Jones had been after a Suzuki GT750 for ages to restore. Then, like buses, two came along at once
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Workshop: AJS-Matchless 500 twins
Service notes specifically for the AJS and Matchless 500cc twins, although it will generally apply to all AMC twins
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BSA Gold Star Scrambler
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Yamaha RD200
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Norton 40 International
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VMCC Racing Lydden
The VMCC road race circus, otherwise British Historic Racing, visited Lydden, Kent on July 30-31 for a championship meeting. With the tight operating conditions imposed on the circuit, meetings have to be slickly run to complete a 47-race programme, but it means there’s hardly a break in the entertainment and the race format rolls around…
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The Classic Dirt Bike Experience
The gentle art of trials riding doesn’t generally include climbing over a car but, looked at objectively, the skills needed in normal trials are all on display in this stunt.
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The Bayley-Cole Douglas
This seminal sprint and hillclimb bike is based on a 1926 Douglas TT frame fitted with a 1928 600cc DT engine. CT Atkins raced it at Brooklands. Avid race enthusiast Dr Joseph Bayley bought it in 1929, although he never rode it in competition.
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VMCC Sprint Section Wroughton Speed Trials
On August 21, the VMCC Sprint Section returned to Wroughton airfield, near Swindon, for the second of this year’s Speed Trials, which was also an ACU Championship round. Conditions were dry with a tailwind for the standing start, quarter-mile course on the broad tarmac runway.
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British Masters Grass Track
Many former racers could be found among the crowd at this year’s British Masters Grass Track, held on August 16. They were guests of the organising Astra Club and the idea was to celebrate the return of grass track to Lydden, but problems over availability led to a late switch to the more recently established…
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Akrapovic pipe dreams
Exhaust manufacturer Akrapovic has announced plans to re-issue a series of previously discontinued systems for its 20th anniversary.
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