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Triumph T120V and T120TT
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The debate hots up. Which is the Best Bonnie of all time? Jon Tait has some opinions, based around his three T120s
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‘Travelling With Mr Turner’ by Nigel Winter
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A modern rider retraces a trip taken in the 1950s by Triumph’s top man, Edward Turner. This book tells the tale of both journeys, touching on how motorcycling and Britain itself have changed over half a century…
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Fettling of Parts
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There are those who believe that classic motorcycles are poetry in motion. Marc Buffery proves that classic bike poetry can inspire all manner of emotions…
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It Takes All Sorts
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Steve Cooper of the VJMC considers collectors, fettlers and hoarders of classic Japanese motorcycles…
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Riding Reminiscences 3
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Back in the day, the young lads of The Paddock weren’t averse to a quick sprint to demonstrate their riding prowess. Ian Caswell remembers ones particular evening when things got a tiny little bit competitive…
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Famous Last Words 20: Emerging Classics
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Why do so many of us apparently need to categorise everything? Frank Westworth is bemused by the notion of an emerging classic…
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‘Touching the World’ by Cathy Birchall
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An 18 year old BMW. A trip across five continents, 31 countries and 26,000 miles. The first global circumnavigation by a blind person on a motorcycle. And a cracking read, says Dave Blendell…
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2004 Triumph Bonneville Thruxton 900
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So the caff-race Bonnie has a strange riding position, dodgy stoppers and is more than a little lethargic? BikerBabe reckons you shouldn’t believe everything you read in the papers…
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1957 Triumph Thunderbird
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‘Complete 1957 Thunderbird but in pieces’ read the advert. Roy Stockham wouldn’t usually reply to adverts that don’t give a price but the phone number indicated that the bike was only 20 miles away…
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Suzuki 650 Katana
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Four-pot Japanese classics are over-complicated, tricky to maintain and expensive to run, right? Not quite. Steve Bergman has clocked up over 120,000 miles on the cut-rate Katana and reckons it has real classic cred…
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