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  • India, The Shimmering Dream by Max Reisch

    India, The Shimmering Dream by Max Reisch

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    In 1933, two students were the first people to ride a motorcycle overland from Europe to India. Their epic adventure aboard a 250cc two-stroke has finally been published in English…

  • 1967 Moto Morini 250 GTI Settebello

    1967 Moto Morini 250 GTI Settebello

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    Bill Wood took a real risk with his first Italian classic bike. A basketcase rebuild – and a really unusual model, at that. Is he please with the results?

  • Famous Last Words 19: A Sociable Activity?

    Famous Last Words 19: A Sociable Activity?

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    Everyone should be more sociable. Riding a classic motorcycle is a sociable activity. We’re told. Frank Westworth’s ears have become very bent…

  • Reasons For Motorcycling

    Reasons For Motorcycling

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    Dave Wooding recalls his time spent with a Triumph 3T, a BSA B31 (and a Reliant but we won’t mention that) among other old bikes, and ponders the attractions of motorcycling in general…

  • Famous Last Words 35: Motorcycles Old, New, Classic and Retro

    Famous Last Words 35: Motorcycles Old, New, Classic and Retro

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    Old bikes are old bikes are old bikes, says Frank Westworth. Except, of course, when they’re new…

  • Classic Japanese Motorcycle News

    Classic Japanese Motorcycle News

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    Steve Cooper from the VJMC brings us up to date with some information about next year’s Uttoxeter Show, and contemplates the value of originality…

  • Famous Last Words

    Famous Last Words

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    ‘Tell us what you think’ and ‘have your say’ seem ubiquitous these days. Magazine editors listen closely to every word you tell them. Whether magazine editors act upon those words is another matter entirely. Frank Westworth admits defeat…

  • Showing Off

    Showing Off

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    Steve Cooper of the VJMC gets controversial with his feelings about show-going trophy-hunters whose classic bikes don’t… actually… work…

  • Seeley Honda 750

    Seeley Honda 750

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    When we put together a feature for the magazine about the Seeley Honda 750 of the late 1970s, there were some photos which we didn’t have space for. And then, even more info arrived…

  • Yamaha XJ750 Seca

    Yamaha XJ750 Seca

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    Yamaha’s 750-4 from the early Eighties was never top of the best-seller list, but then Jim Peace has never been one to run with the herd. He reckons you could go a lot further and do a lot worse…


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