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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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Road Test: Hesketh V1000
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The Hesketh V1000 was conceived from an aristocrat’s ambition to produce ‘the finest motorcycles in the world’, yet the glamorous debutant lacked sufficient pedigree to impress motorcycling society…
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Road Test: NSU Sportymax
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We’ve all spent idle hours dreaming up our ideal motorcycle but only a tiny percentage convert their imaginings into metal. One of the few is Irishman Tom Healion who spent six years conceiving and building his 250cc NSU ‘Sportymax’ racer…
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BSA Cyclemotor
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The BSA Cyclemotor was an ingenius, lightweight (27Ib) power unit which incorporated a gear drive through a three plate clutch. With claims of 25mph and an average fuel consumption of around 200mpg, it was a must have…
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Mercury
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Last of the Mercuries. Over the years there have been some pretty bizarre ways of acquiring a delectable piece of machinery – but have you ever thought of getting your hair cut?
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Honda CBR600
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Motorcyclists in 1999 have grown used to the idea that Honda’s CBR600 has been consistently the best selling machine of its class. It’s almost a permanent fixture at the top of the sports bike chart. But it wasn’t always like that…
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Grindlay-Peerless 500
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The ‘Ton for an hour’ Bill Lacey Grindlay-Peerless comes back to life. But there’s always one know-it-all sourpuss hanging around, don’t you find? Like the one at the Brooklands Reunion Day gathering who, after studying Gerry Belton’s restored 500cc flyer, just had to say his piece…
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Classic camera: Lady rider, November 1911
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Eminent lady motorcyclist Mrs M C Cooke poses with a twin-cylinder Douglas; riding it was her first try of a two-pot machine, most of her experience of riding in the half dozen years she’d been a regular participant having been undertaken on a specially modified, single-speed Triumph…
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Reference: Know your Monobloc
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Four phase check for economy and performance on Amal’s popular Monobloc motorcycle carburettor by Don Bridgewood…
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Watsonian-JAP
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Bob Currie explains the background to the one-and-only 998cc Watsonian-JAP, now added to the National Motorcycle Museum collection. But Watsonian made sidecars, didn’t they?
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