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  • Editor’s Intro: Old meets new

    Editor’s Intro: Old meets new

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    “I still love the Stafford show, there’s always something different and it makes you feel like you’re part of a much larger classic world.”

  • A potted history of the Reynolds story

    A potted history of the Reynolds story

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    As ‘The Reynolds Man’ I was interested in a letter in the on ‘Renold and Reynolds’ and feel that it called for an account of the Reynold’s side of the story.

  • A pair of Matchless G3s

    A pair of Matchless G3s

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    Hello from New Zealand and thanks for producing the Classic Bike Guide mag. I enjoy reading the articles and find them very interesting. I started riding British bikes at an early age, but as usual,

  • The changing classic times

    The changing classic times

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    Please forgive the tardiness of this little missive but with mounting concern I reread Neil AC Wyatt’s ‘It’s Time To Wake Up’ in February’s Readers’ Letters, page 14. Among other concerns, the excitable Mr Wyatt’s

  • Technically speaking

    Technically speaking

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    Technospeak crops up in many aspects of our lives. My column this issue was going to be about the insides of a Montesa 200 engine, which belongs to a relative of mine who was a

  • Correction: Jones brake

    Correction: Jones brake

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    With reference to the Jones racer, in the April 2019 issue of TCM, Dennis Jones did indeed make his own front wheel but it was not a disc. The front wheel he made is in

  • Post Office Bantams

    Post Office Bantams

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    I read the April 2019 edition of The Classic MotorCycle with interest, particularly the article about the Post Office Bantam. I started as a Post Office Telegram boy in 1966 and after a brief spell

  • JUNE 2019

    JUNE 2019

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    Contents: Archive photograph 6 News 8 Pioneer Run 12 Letters 16 Subscribe and save 22 BSA Gold Star 24 DJ Rally 32 Gilera B300 34 Triumph special 40 Velocette KSS 46 Tom Arter story –

  • Good, good, slip

    Good, good, slip

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    “Good article about the ex-Frank Perris machine in issue 195. A handful of these made their way down under in the late 1960s; Melbourne rider Peter Jones rode one to many wins.”

  • Gonna get me a Bullet

    Gonna get me a Bullet

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    I’m not as deeply into motorcycles as I once was and I plan to let all subs other than Motorcycle Classics expire, but I check all the Brit mags when I get to Barnes &

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