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  • Triumph factory insight

    Triumph factory insight

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    The author of Tales of Triumph Motorcycles and the Meriden factory, Hughie Hancox, was a Triumph factory man who started work in the repair shop as a teenager and worked his way up through the

  • No MOTs for 40-year-old bikes!

    No MOTs for 40-year-old bikes!

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    From May next year, MOTs for cars and bikes 40 years or older will be abolished. That means that any bike registered before or around 1978 will be exempt from the yearly safety check and

  • Classic Bikes, modern times

    Classic Bikes, modern times

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      Before the interweb, dreams couldn’t be realised quite so easily. When I started riding, my evening ‘blast’ (as much as you can on a Suzuki ZR50, albeit with a slightly tired 80cc big-bore) would

  • The Carole Nash Classic Mechanics Show gears up for another huge turnout

    The Carole Nash Classic Mechanics Show gears up for another huge turnout

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    It’s just over a month until the world’s biggest and best celebration of classic motorcycles comes to Staffordshire County Showground. The Carole Nash Classic Mechanics Show takes place over the weekend of October 14-15 and

  • Suzuki Village at Stafford Classic Bike Show to display a whole host of rare machines

    Suzuki Village at Stafford Classic Bike Show to display a whole host of rare machines

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    VISITORS to the upcoming Carole Nash Classic Motorcycle Mechanics Show – October 14-15 – will have the opportunity to get up close to a variety of rare Suzukis, including the two RG500s which Barry Sheene

  • BIKES AT THE BAY SUCCESS!

    BIKES AT THE BAY SUCCESS!

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    It was another amazing weekend at the Bikes At The Bay event, down in sunny Kent. The August weather just about played ball and an amazing array of machines turned up over the two-day event

  • The beginnings of a wonderful relationship

    The beginnings of a wonderful relationship

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    So why would Bob turn down these works rides and instead decide to stay with Joe, working at the back of a funeral parlour in Bellshill, Glasgow? The answer: Bob was a man of his

  • BHR Cadwell Moore has it

    BHR Cadwell Moore has it

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    Close finishes, a dominating performance and something of a find in the ‘chairs’ added to the memorable BHR meeting for round two of the championship in Lincolnshire. Read more News and Features in the September/October issue of

  • Gear up for the Dirt Bike Show!

    Gear up for the Dirt Bike Show!

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    You really can’t miss Europe’s very best off-road event: the Dirt Bike Show! The event is once again being held across four days – October 26-29 – at its traditional home of Stoneleigh Park in

  • Breathing life back into Clara

    Breathing life back into Clara

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    Initially, the cammy Velocette was anonymous. The bike came about as the result of a discussion between two of the company’s top engineers. It was based on a standard, 350cc overhead camshaft KTT engine but


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