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  • The yellow motorbike revived

    The yellow motorbike revived

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    This was a restoration with a difference, featuring two (self-proclaimed) grumpy old men and a workaday legend.  

  • Barred!

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    Zenith’s Gradua gear gave it such an advantage in the days of single speeders, that the authorities banned it. The Surrey-based firm, though, sensed an opportunity for publicity…  

  • Testing, testing! How the bike journos of old saw the Squariels

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    The uncanny flexibility of the Ariel Square Fours, from the 497cc and 597cc ‘cammies’ to the final pushrod-operated 997cc Mk. 2, always amazed those fortunate enough to road test these four-pot classics, as these excerpts from our archive bound volumes show.  

  • Two careful owners

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    That’s all this beautiful 1956 Tiger 110 Triumph has had. Though its original owner sold it in 1961, it was left to him in the second owner’s will. 

  • Bigger than ever!

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    The ASI MotoShow is a real celebration of motorcycling, with a hugely diverse amount of stunning machinery taking to the track.  

  • The camera does lie

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    The start of the 1967 Ulster Grand Prix. But all is not, perhaps, as it seems 

  • Different strokes for 80s blokes

    Different strokes for 80s blokes

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    Saying ‘Konnichiwa’ to Honda’s NS400R was not the ‘Banzai’ charge that other two-stroke race replicas offered in the mid-80s. But it was no shrinking violet either…  

  • A new hope

    A new hope

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    Triumph’s first Speed Twin. This really is where it all began… 

  • Something wicked

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    Smooth, sophisticated, almost civilised. But have the later Jotas lost their je ne sais quoi? 

  • Norton CEO discusses the future

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    Steady, But Sure 


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