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  • Frank Melling: The Flying Penguin

    Frank Melling: The Flying Penguin

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    Frank Melling tells a mean tall story. You’d seek him out on Friday night, pint in hand, to hear ripping

  • AJS and Matchless, Post-War Singles and Twins, The Complete Story

    AJS and Matchless, Post-War Singles and Twins, The Complete Story

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    After the Second World War, Associated Motor Cycles’ range of AJS and Matchless models helped put the British worker back on the road. With 350cc and 500cc AJS and Matchless-badged singles based on the military

  • Book Reviews: The Flying Penguin:

    Book Reviews: The Flying Penguin:

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    More stories of a freelance motorcycling journalist IN THIS SECOND part of his autobiography, Frank Melling continues telling the ripping yarns which he started in A Penguin In A Sparrow’s Nest. The Flying Penguin takes

  • Book Review: Giacomo Agostini – A Life in Pictures

    Book Review: Giacomo Agostini – A Life in Pictures

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    Book reviewed by Jonathan Hill Giacomo Agostini is, still, Italy’s most successful and most glamorous motorcycle road racer and, some would argue, the greatest riders of all time. They would have good reason too, when you

  • Vincent Motorcycles: The Untold Story since 1946

    Vincent Motorcycles: The Untold Story since 1946

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    GIVEN THE VINCENT’S reputation as one of the most remarkable motorcycles ever manufactured, any book which attempts to cover the subject needs to be similarly accomplished. This massive hardback, which runs to 400 fact-packed, full-colour

  • Book Review: ‘Sox’ Gary Hocking – the forgotten World Motorcycle Champion

    Book Review: ‘Sox’ Gary Hocking – the forgotten World Motorcycle Champion

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        Gary Hocking was born near Newport, South Wales in 1937 but grew up in Southern Rhodesia, now known as Zimbabwe when his family emigrated in 1947. Nicknamed ‘Sox’ because of his aversion to

  • Far Horizons by Andrew Earnshaw

    Far Horizons by Andrew Earnshaw

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    f you’re going to ride around the world in instalments, then America would seem like a fairly safe place to

  • Ducati 750 Sport

    Ducati 750 Sport

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    If you’re a Ducati fan then we have something of a Sport fest lined up for you. And it starts here, when Ozboy encounters a true Ducati ‘passionisti’…

  • Royal Enfield 500 Bullet Electra XR

    Royal Enfield 500 Bullet Electra XR

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    Alan Cole bid farewell to his old classic bikes, and road tested a pre-production special edition Enfield Electra in his search for a really practical classic. Did he like it enough to part with his cash?

  • Moto Guzzi 850 T3

    Moto Guzzi 850 T3

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    Warren L Mutz tried to buy a BMW but they wouldn’t sell one to him, so he ended up with a Moto Guzzi T3. And a blister on his toe…


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