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  • Buying Guide: Bridgestone 175SR

    Buying Guide: Bridgestone 175SR

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    Bridgestone motorcycles established a reputation for solid engineering. The disc valve engines were well designed, simple to service and used the very best cutting edge materials including chromium plated bores in alloy cylinder castings…

  • Buying Guide: Suzuki XN85 Turbo

    Buying Guide: Suzuki XN85 Turbo

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    If you really fancy something a little different, something with a little extra bolted on, then try Suzuki’s XN85 Turbo, arguably the best looking bike of the genre…

  • DMW P200 De Luxe

    DMW P200 De Luxe

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    Not every concours champion needs to be a multi-cylindered superbike. Mick Knowles took top honours with his Villiers-powered DMW a little while ago…

  • Road Test: Triumph Speed Twin

    Road Test: Triumph Speed Twin

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    Writing about a 1952 Triumph Speed Twin, arguably the most handsome and sleek member of a line that began in 1937 and set a fashion, it’s difficult not to repeat what has gone before too many times. Over to Jim Reynolds…

  • Sunbeam September Challenge a success

    Sunbeam September Challenge a success

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    This year’s Sunbeam September Challenge in Yorkshire proved to be a tremendous success. The event was graced with a wide variety of attractive and interesting old motorcycles, and also with some good, clear weather…

  • Road Test: BSA Super Rocket

    Road Test: BSA Super Rocket

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    BSA’s well loved pre-unit twins culminated with the Rocket Gold Star, pretty much a hot Super Rocket twin engine in the Gold Star cycle parts. Overshadowed by its Triumph Bonneville counterpart, the Super Rocket was arguably as good a machine. Jim Reynolds takes a ride out on one, which is probably as good as it…

  • Road Test: BSA Super Rocket

    Road Test: BSA Super Rocket

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    BSA’s well loved pre-unit twins culminated with the Rocket Gold Star, pretty much a hot Super Rocket twin engine in the Gold Star cycle parts. Overshadowed by its Triumph Bonneville counterpart, the Super Rocket was arguably as good a machine. Jim Reynolds takes a ride out on one, which is probably as good as it…

  • Gentleman’s spirit of adventure night

    Gentleman’s spirit of adventure night

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    Suffolk-based custom motorcycle emporium Krazy Horse is joining up with Ravenwood Children’s Charity Trust and premier menswear brand Trotter & Deane to stage an evening of adventure for gentlemen based around ‘the need for speed, style and adventure’…

  • Metzeler’s classic tyre

    Metzeler’s classic tyre

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    Metzeler has announced a tyre aimed at motorcycles built from the 70s, claiming the new compound and construction is in all respects a performance upgrade on traditional ‘classic’ rubberware and raises the level of performance to modern equivalents…

  • A new dawn for Cadwell Park, August bank holiday 1961

    A new dawn for Cadwell Park, August bank holiday 1961

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    Cadwell Park launched the newly extended 2.25 mile circuit with a star studded International meeting in August 1961, in front of more than 25,000 spectators…


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