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  • Old Bike Mart Unearthed – August 2012

    Old Bike Mart Unearthed – August 2012

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    This month’s unearthed readers bikes and finds

  • BSA Bantam D1 – back to basics

    BSA Bantam D1 – back to basics

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    To many, the BSA Bantam is familiar and often overlooked – though it still makes an excellent, enjoyable, value for money classic, as explained…

  • Reference: NVT rotary

    Reference: NVT rotary

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    It’s fifty-five years since the first practical Wankel rotary engine was built by NSU in Germany. John Nutting was one of the first journalists to ride a rotary-engined motorcycle when Norton-Villiers-Triumph revealed its ultra-smooth prototype in the 70s…

  • Reference: NVT rotary

    Reference: NVT rotary

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    It’s fifty-five years since the first practical Wankel rotary engine was built by NSU in Germany. John Nutting was one of the first journalists to ride a rotary-engined motorcycle when Norton-Villiers-Triumph revealed its ultra-smooth prototype in the 70s…

  • Seat re-covering

    Seat re-covering

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    When it comes to restoring motorcycles, you can almost bet your hat that the seat is going to be a bit tatty around the edges and requiring a bit of tlc. This month Steve Cooper brings us a guide to re-covering them…

  • Road Test: Velocette LE/Valiant Special

    Road Test: Velocette LE/Valiant Special

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    This Velocette Special takes the engine from the LE and slots it into the rolling chassis of the Valiant, creating a tidy little lightweight…

  • Road Test: BSA B30-4

    Road Test: BSA B30-4

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    Mike Dixon’s rare, tuned example of the BSA B30-4, denoted by a small star red star stamped onto the crankcase, was described to him as being similar to the machine campaigned in competitive trials by Marjorie Cottle during 1930…

  • Road Test: Velocette LE/Valiant Special

    Road Test: Velocette LE/Valiant Special

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    This Velocette Special takes the engine from the LE and slots it into the rolling chassis of the Valiant, creating a tidy little lightweight…

  • Road Test: BSA B30-4

    Road Test: BSA B30-4

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    Mike Dixon’s rare, tuned example of the BSA B30-4, denoted by a small star red star stamped onto the crankcase, was described to him as being similar to the machine campaigned in competitive trials by Marjorie Cottle during 1930…

  • Take a ride to the codebreakers’ mansion

    Take a ride to the codebreakers’ mansion

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    Classic motorbikes will take over Bletchley Park, Milton Keynes, the home of the codebreakers during the Second World War, on Sunday, August 5…


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