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  • Workshop: Engine timing

    Workshop: Engine timing

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    There’s a time and place for everything in life, including that all important spark for your bike’s engine. This month Steve Cooper talks us through flywheel magneto engine timing…

  • Workshop: Engine timing

    Workshop: Engine timing

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    There’s a time and place for everything in life, including that all important spark for your bike’s engine. This month Steve Cooper talks us through flywheel magneto engine timing…

  • Dutch TT 1948

    Dutch TT 1948

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    The photograph shows the start of the 350cc race, which began the day’s programme in dramatic fashion as a trio of riders crashed in a heap…

  • Sammy’s 180mph marvel joins Bristol line-up

    Sammy’s 180mph marvel joins Bristol line-up

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    A machine ranked as one of the 10 greatest motorcycles of all time and regarded as a technological marvel of its time will be displayed at Bristol’s best bike show for the first time…

  • Ariel Leader

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    The modern motorcycle, so proclaimed Ariel advertising slogans – and when the Leader was introduced, the firm could really be considered the makers of such a thing…

  • Buying Guide: AJS Porcupine

    Buying Guide: AJS Porcupine

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    One of the world’s rarest classic racers goes under the hammer this summer. Could this be a million dollar motorcycle?

  • Help Chris go pure NUTs

    Help Chris go pure NUTs

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    The pre First World War era saw loads of development in the motorcycle world as the devices changed from bicycles with an engine bolted to them to properly designed and constructed machines in their own right…

  • Isle of Man to see its first Chinese TT entry

    Isle of Man to see its first Chinese TT entry

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    History will be made this summer when Hampshire-based firm WK Bikes races the first Chinese bike ever to enter the Isle of Man TT. Australian rider David Johnson has been signed up to ride the 650cc twin in the Lightweight TT Race due to be held on Friday, June 8, the final race day…

  • The way we were: February 1938

    The way we were: February 1938

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    Under the headline ‘motor cycles for all’ The Motor Cycle’s editorial informed there were 320 motorcycles included in the year’s buyer’s guide published on February 10…

  • Steve’s BSA Bantams

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    Steve Mitchell’s classic interest is for BSA Bantams – the rare Competition models to be precise. He defines the appeal: “They are unmistakeably Bantams, but the bikes carry nothing that isn’t absolutely essential”


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