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  • Striking Gold!

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    A conversation between Robert Davies from CBG and restorer Peter Collins provides much food for thought for potential rebuilders….  

  • Scrambled egg

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    Take a tall frame, add a torquey twin engine, high bars and high pipes, and head for the countryside! 

  • The new Noir

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    Triumph’s new Bonnie looks best in black, so we’re told. We’re also told that the new T120 is close in spirit to the original T120. Hmmm… 

  • Farther, faster

    Farther, faster

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    For some high mileage sports riders of the 1970s, the standard R90S wasn’t quite sufficient 

  • Four play

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    In a large shed at Kitts Green, a few miles from Birmingham city centre, Dennis Poore assembled a team to try and save the British motorcycle industry. 

  • In full flight

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    Some bikes are icons from the outset. Not so this idiosyncratic 350. But it’s strangely successful as a classic steed… 

  • A social history of motorcycling- Part 4: The One Percenters (1947-1950)

    A social history of motorcycling- Part 4: The One Percenters (1947-1950)

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    In this series of extracts from his forthcoming book, Mike Lewis looks at the evolution of social motorcycling in Britain and the USA. 

  • The first twin

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    Valentine Page designed a 650cc Triumph four years before Edward Turner’s 500cc Speed Twin. In many ways, the earlier machine was the more advanced.  

  • When two men go to work

    When two men go to work

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    The enthusiasm, passion and hard graft of a father and son duo has resulted in a museum dedicated to charting the history of one France’s ‘big four’ motorcycle makers. 

  • Green day

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    Aermacchi’s road going efforts have never enjoyed much publicity, which, as this rare five-speed Ala Verde (Green Wing)  


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