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Road Test: Yamaha RD twins
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Motorcyclists who grew up in the Seventies and had more than hint of fire in their veins would have had to try a Yamaha two stroke twin. In whatever size they came – 125cc, 200cc, 250cc, 350cc or 400cc – they were fast and furious and could punch much more than their weight…
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Road Test: BSA A7
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Some motorcycles are the ruffians of the two-wheeled world. The BSA 500 twin is instead one of motorcycling’s gentlefolk…
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BSA Gold Star video
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The Classic Motorcycle reader Viny Parkinson celebrates BSA’s Gold Star with ‘Halcyon Days’, a song written and performed by him on YouTube…
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Vincent Super ‘D’ Black Shadow for sale
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Johnnie Sawyer died last year, aged 82, and now his family has decided to sell his Vincent Black Shadow, built in 1955, one of the last from the Stevenage factory…
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Road Test: Suzuki GT500
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When Suzuki’s 492cc two stroke twin was revealed in 1967 for the domestic Japanese motorcycle market it looked like a 250cc T20 Super Six on steroids. But it was doomed to become extinct before its time, John Nutting recalls the bike that started the Hamamatsu factory’s big-bike era and the last of the line…
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BMW: sixty years of flat twins
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One of BMW’s first satisfied customers was none other than Manfred von Richthofen. The legendary first world war German air ace, nicknamed the ‘Red Baron’ because he painted his aircraft scarlet, wrote in 1917 to thank designer Max Friz for the
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Road Test: Suzuki GT500
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When Suzuki’s 492cc two stroke twin was revealed in 1967 for the domestic Japanese motorcycle market it looked like a 250cc T20 Super Six on steroids. But it was doomed to become extinct before its time, John Nutting recalls the bike that started the Hamamatsu factory’s big-bike era and the last of the line…
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Peter Starr takes book signing ‘to the limit’
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Ground-breaking film maker Peter Starr will reflect on 20 years of shooting movies about motorcycle racing during an evening event in Coventry…
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Watsonian centenary rally
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Watsonian sidecars celebrates its centenary this year and to mark the occasion the British manufacturer is throwing a party at Stoneleigh Park near Coventry on 18-19th Aug 2012…
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Norton Commando AMC gearboxes
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Complete Norton Commando AMC gearboxes are now available from Andover Norton, made from original drawings but with improved specification materials…
