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  • 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…

  • Musician donates motorcycles for auction

    Musician donates motorcycles for auction

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    Graham Coxon, British musician and lead guitarist for Blur, is donating seven of his prized motorcycles for sale through Bonhams auctioneers, with proceeds to benefit the UK’s leading children’s charity, the NSPCC…

  • New for October’s Stafford show

    New for October’s Stafford show

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    Cavalcade sessions on each day have been confirmed around the main ring for the upcoming Carole Nash Classic Motorcycle Mechanics Show – adding an additional live element to the hugely popular annual event at Staffordshire County Showground…

  • Gentleman’s ride out

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    This weekend, Sunday September 28th, hundreds of riders from across the country will meet together and give a two-wheeled ‘salute’ to prostate cancer – a disease that kills 10,000 men every year in the UK…

  • Workshop: Fit an ignition booster

    Workshop: Fit an ignition booster

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    If you ride a classic bike for any period of time you will inevitably and inexorably find yourself fettling contact breakers and possibly changing condensers. But it doesn’t have to be that way…

  • Road Test: Benelli 650

    Road Test: Benelli 650

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    Benelli’s 650 twin was a radical take on the British parallel twin design. But the Italian BSA beater arrived as the British industry went into decline, and it soon began to look dated against Japanese exotica. Rod Gibson tells the story…

  • Workshop: Fit an ignition booster

    Workshop: Fit an ignition booster

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    If you ride a classic bike for any period of time you will inevitably and inexorably find yourself fettling contact breakers and possibly changing condensers. But it doesn’t have to be that way…


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