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  • YZR500 The OW60 family line

    YZR500 The OW60 family line

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    Yamaha’s RD56 factory racer which took Phil Read to the 1964 250cc World title really did use a disc-valve motor which profited from MZ technology – purloined by Suzuki from the DDR’s MZ, by enabling

  • Lone Rider: around the world by BMW

    Lone Rider: around the world by BMW

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    Back in the early 1980s, Elspeth Beard took her broken heart, packed up her BMW airhead boxer, and rode it

  • Sexy Suzuki RGV500 rebuilt!

    Sexy Suzuki RGV500 rebuilt!

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    Kevin Schwantz’s 1989 Pepsi Suzuki RGV500 was restored to full working order at the recent Motorcycle LIVE event. The iconic Grand Prix machine was completely stripped, before being carefully and meticulously restored by Team Classic

  • Anniversary Blade book coming!

    Anniversary Blade book coming!

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    The 25th anniversary of the Honda FireBlade (or Fireblade post-2004) was in 2017 and a new Mortons’ bookazine is coming along in 2018 to celebrate this fact. Written by our own editor Bertie Simmonds, it

  • Mackenzie Hodgson Insurance

    Mackenzie Hodgson Insurance

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    Triple British Superbike Champion Niall Mackenzie and World Superbike Champion Neil Hodgson have become insurance salesmen! With many race and former race stars fronting up big bike insurance companies for their own gain, this is

  • Honda Valkyrie

    Honda Valkyrie

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    Honda’s six-cylinder ‘power cruiser’ certainly turned heads when it arrived two decades ago. It turned out to be an inspired

  • Vincent Black Shadow

    Vincent Black Shadow

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    When the Vincent Black Shadow was announced in 1948 it wowed the world with a top speed of 125mph. Since

  • Torrens: the classic motorcyclist

    Torrens: the classic motorcyclist

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    Back in the days of black and white, when the Green ’Un and Blue ’Un ruled the motorcycling roost, journalist,

  • Ride Of My Life

    Ride Of My Life

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    In Ride of My Life, racer and writer Frank Melling tells of a few of the bikes and experiences, bad

  • In balance

    In balance

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    Loading the shed The prospect of planning a new workshop is exciting. How often do any of us have the chance to lay out a workshop from scratch? A chance to build what we want


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