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  • Reference: Triumph IR ‘Ricardo’

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    When Triumph decided its range needed expanding and an overhead valve model should be added, the firm decided on awarding the task to an ‘outside’ consultant, Harry Ricardo

  • Henderson’s Fours

    Henderson’s Fours

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    In production for 20 years, Henderson’s four cylinder model changed engine three times. Tim Holmes details the alterations…

  • Road Test: Norvil Commando

    Road Test: Norvil Commando

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    Sometimes steady modification and improvements aren’t just quite enough and a radical rethink is necessary. Rod Ker tells the tale of how Norvil continues to prove that the twin is anything but dead…

  • Kawasaki KX500: ‘A real smoothie’

    Kawasaki KX500: ‘A real smoothie’

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    How special are works bikes? Just ‘special’ or ‘very special’? CDB asks the question and Dave King answers

  • Buying Guide: Honda Bros

    Buying Guide: Honda Bros

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    Various manufacturers have tried and revisited the V-twin formula (in fact some have never ventured from the sacred V) and Honda made a pretty neat job with the Bros back in 1988. Launched on the back of the development of the RC30, Honda’s V-twin-powered Bros is a competent allrounder…

  • Buying Guide: Yamaha FZ750

    Buying Guide: Yamaha FZ750

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    Never a visual treat, but Yamaha’s FZ750 won friends with its 145mph top speed and amazing power spread

  • Road Test: Harley-Davidson Electra-Glide Classic

    Road Test: Harley-Davidson Electra-Glide Classic

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    2003 was the centennial year for America’s legendary Harley-Davidsons and Rod Ker gets a taste of the unique (and sometimes downright scary) motorcycling experience that 800 lbs-worth of Milwaukee V-twin provides…

  • Buying Guide: Suzuki RE5M

    Buying Guide: Suzuki RE5M

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    Suzuki’s rotary-engined RE5 was a high tech but heavy and thirsty alternative to conventional piston-engined superbikes. Not surprisingly, it didn’t catch on…

  • Road Test: Matchless ‘Golden Eagle’ G50CSR

    Road Test: Matchless ‘Golden Eagle’ G50CSR

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    ‘Why, oh why, didn’t AMC produce it?’ asks Peter Dobson. Whatever the reason, it remained a homologation special for its brief life…

  • Buying Guide: Pre 65 trials bikes: Francis-Barnett

    Buying Guide: Pre 65 trials bikes: Francis-Barnett

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    Pre 65 trials bikes these days bear little or no relation to the way such sporting bikes actually were pre 1965, Classic Dirtbike has a look at a bike ‘as ridden’ in the day…


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