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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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REVIVALISM
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A mysterious peculiarity of the magazine world is The Themed Issue. In these odd attempts, the editor (who should always be blamed for everything) decides to run several features with a common theme. Makes sense,
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Bike-mad TV detectives are on the hunt for hidden treasures in the sheds of Britain
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A BIKE-MAD pair of TV engineering detectives are on the hunt for forgotten and hidden treasures tucked away in the sheds of Britain. Travel Channel presenters Henry Cole and Sam Lovegrove are about to film
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NSU project
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Having had a chat with you at the recent Dirt Bike Show at Stoneleigh, about the motorcycle built for me when I was a wee lad, here’s a pic of me, my dad Robbie and
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The settling in process: Building a bike is only the first stage, you’ve to make it work after that.
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Hopefully many of you will recall the Can-Am project we did in these pages a few years back. I made no secret of it at the time that it impressed me in several ways, not
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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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HARDLY A HARLEY
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I’VE OWNED MY XLCR since 1991. Wanted one when I was kid, bought one in the States and shipped it back. I doubt there are many bikes that create the same intense feeling of riding
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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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Showing off
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I’ve just rattled back from a show. Any excuse to slope out of the office while the magazine’s in the final few days of production. Rode up to Shropshire from Cornwall on the Saturday. It
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Letter: A Manx With History
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Dear Malc The Mortons Archive photo (Classic Racer issue 181) of Rod Coleman on Douglas Quay shows my bike, which I have owned since 1995. Rod Coleman is shown being helped by fellow Kiwi NZ
