Reviews
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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‘The Dragon Motorcycle Rally’, by Carol Morgan
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Only the brave can boast that they’ve attended the mid-winter Dragon Rally. This book explains how it started and what makes it so special…
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Royal Enfield Bullet Sixty-5
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After reading various roadtests, Aged P actually bought one. He shares his first impressions of the Enfield Sixty-5 and gives some Real Classic Motorcycle advice to other prospective returning riders…
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‘Granville Bradshaw: a flawed genius?’ by Barry Jones
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The man behind the popular Panther single was also responsible for various aero engines and the Sopwith ABC. Plus he had a passion for toroidal engine design. We enlisted an engineer, Jacqueline Bickerstaff, to read and unravel his life’s story…
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