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  • Honda 125 Series: A level playing field

    Honda 125 Series: A level playing field

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    Photographs: Mortons Archive and Russ Lee At the beginning of the 1977 road racing season, an all new championship was added to the road racing calendar – the Honda 125cc series. Phil Wain reflects on a

  • 1971 revisited: The first ever Anglo-American match races

    1971 revisited: The first ever Anglo-American match races

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    Words: Bruce Cox – Pictures: Mortons Archive and Bruce Cox Collection In more than a decade and a half of racing, the Transatlantic Trophy Series introduced no fewer than seven American World Champions to British fans.

  • And now for something completely different: The Eldee Velocette

    And now for something completely different: The Eldee Velocette

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    Words and photographs Chris Swallow Eagle-eyed observers visiting the Honda museum in Motegi, Japan, will notice soon after paying their yen there is a racing motorcycle devoid of the familiar winged Honda vector. The emblem

  • The 1974 500cc Italian Grand Prix: A gamble that didn’t pay off

    The 1974 500cc Italian Grand Prix: A gamble that didn’t pay off

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    Words and photographs: Jan Burgers A calculated gamble by Yamaha failed at the Italian Grand Prix. The mistake was in the estimation of the fuel consumption of the 500cc Yamaha four. Jan Burgers continues his

  • Honda 125 Series: A level playing field

    Honda 125 Series: A level playing field

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    Photographs: Mortons Archive and Russ Lee At the beginning of the 1977 road racing season, an all new championship was added to the road racing calendar – the Honda 125cc series. Phil Wain reflects on a

  • 1971 revisited: The first ever Anglo-American match races

    1971 revisited: The first ever Anglo-American match races

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    Words: Bruce Cox – Pictures: Mortons Archive and Bruce Cox Collection In more than a decade and a half of racing, the Transatlantic Trophy Series introduced no fewer than seven American World Champions to British fans.

  • And now for something completely different: The Eldee Velocette

    And now for something completely different: The Eldee Velocette

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    Words and photographs Chris Swallow Eagle-eyed observers visiting the Honda museum in Motegi, Japan, will notice soon after paying their yen there is a racing motorcycle devoid of the familiar winged Honda vector. The emblem

  • The 1974 500cc Italian Grand Prix: A gamble that didn’t pay off

    The 1974 500cc Italian Grand Prix: A gamble that didn’t pay off

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    Words and photographs: Jan Burgers A calculated gamble by Yamaha failed at the Italian Grand Prix. The mistake was in the estimation of the fuel consumption of the 500cc Yamaha four. Jan Burgers continues his

  • Letter: A Manx With History

    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

  • Brilliant Brackley

    Brilliant Brackley

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    Words: Bruce Cox Photograph: Roger Cooper The Brackley Festival of Motorcycling is a genuinely unique event in that it is the only town on the British mainland that is closed off to allow racing motorcycles

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