Features
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Here’s a car showroom – turn it into a bike shop!
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Concluding the story about motorcycles in his life, Tony Proctor tells how he set up a brand new Yamaha Centre 38 years ago.
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Agricultural it wasn’t – farmer Jack’s Zundapp-Arrow special
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When OBM reader and Adler to Zundapp Club member Bernie alerted us to a long-forgotten Zundapp-Arrow special, it was a simple matter to visit the Mortons Archive and turn up the original report.
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Music to the ears! Suzuki’s GT550 triple
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Steve Cooper fondly remembers Suzuki’s largest air-cooled two-stroke triple – the excellent but often overlooked GT550
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The ‘lightweights’ that time forgot
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Time was slowly running out for Associated Motor Cycles when it launched its new-style 250cc overhead-valve singles in 1958 – but were the sturdy and neat-looking AJS and Matchless models the best they could have offered? asks Pete Kelly.
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The story of the Ormonde
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Modern literature often relates the decline of the British and continental motorcycle industry in the 1950s and 1960s. Arguably the rot set in before the First World War.
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Vitesse with finesse
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An exhaustive search led to the resurrection of an incredibly rare, but quite fabulous, model.
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Henry’s Cat
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It’s a Triumph of course, but Henry Pinney’s 500 twin is more than it appears to be
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Make it so
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It takes some audacity to dismantle an original old bike to create your first classic custom – but the results of a good build can be simply brilliant. Go on. Be brave…
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Standing tall
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As the new Bonnevilles go on sale, so the old Scrambler will be discontinued. No problem: just build your own
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Gentleman’s relish
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Tired of clip-ons and rearsets? We recommend something altogether more refined
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