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Where BSAs Dare! by Norman Vanhouse
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Back in 1952, three workaday BSA A7s beat the world to win gold medals in the ISDT and secure the Maudes Trophy. This new book tells the inside story, written by one of the competitors…
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1962 Ariel Arrow
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If you like your British bikes to be a little bit different to the usual pushrod parallel twin, then John Walton’s 250 two-stroke might just turn your head…
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The Last Hurrah
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Two travellers take a Panther 120 and a Norton Model 19 on a 10,000 mile trek along the old silk road. Did we find the book more enjoyable than the DVD?…
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1988 Honda Bros – Part 2
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There wasn’t meant to be a part two, but there’s a new problem for Bros-Rider’s diminutive Honda Vee-twin. Or Vee-single, it seems…
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1959 BSA A10 Rebuild – Part 2
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We left Shaun Gibbons with his A10 stripped-down, and awaiting a complete engine rebuild at the hands of a kindly Geordie named Mike. Enter the engineer…
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1956 BSA B31 Scrambler Rebuild – Part 12
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After months of work, Philip Rashleigh’s scrambler-special is coming home and it just needs an MoT and registration to hit the road…
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Royal Enfield Continental GT 250 – Part 4
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Kel Boyce tells us what happened once he’d completed his rebuild, and how he learned to live with an ‘oilfield’…
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Three Italian 350s: Ducati, Benelli & Morini
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What do you call an assortment of three lively Latin classics? Russ Gannicott compares and contrasts the various components of his Red-Eye collection…
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Bikes: Royal Enfield Sixy-5
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You need to possess a certain sort of Something to really enjoy owning and riding a classic bike. Does Steve The Toast have that Something? He’s probably going to self-destruct in the attempt to find out…
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The Encyclopaedia of Classic Motorcycles, by Richard Rosenthal
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If you like dipping in and out of an old bike book, rather than following a lengthy narrative, then you probably enjoy the ‘great big list’ formula. Here is possibly the greatest, biggest list we’ve ever encountered…
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