Features
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The Cunliffe Brough
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At the Stalybridge Speed Trials, Jack Cunliffe launches his Brough-Superior
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Portway promenade
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Lovely period photograph, from June 1933, of motorcyclists and their machines lined on the Portway, Bristol. ‘… the fine concrete road and promenade running beside the river Avon in the deep Avon Gorge at Clifton, a suburb of Bristol.’Lovely period photograph, from June 1933, of motorcyclists and their machines lined on the Portway, Bristol. ‘……
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Holding on for a hero
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Alan Turner tells of a very special reunion at Stafford when, thanks to Holland’s Ferry Brouwer, Des Heckle was reunited with his record-breaking 250cc Yamaha TD1C sprint bike of 46 years ago.
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Inconspicuous, reliable and beautifully engineered – Steve’s electric-start solution for classic BSA twins
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Electric starter? What electric starter? Pete Kelly visits Steve McFarlane, of SRM Engineering fame, in Cardiff to fully appreciate the huge amount of skill and dedication that went into his patented design for an electric starter for swinging-arm A7 and A10 BSA twins.
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Dot Motorcycles – the end of an era at Ellesmere Street
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An association with Manchester spanning over 100 years will come to an end this September when Dot Motorcycles Ltd ceases trading from its 1912 premises in Ellesmere Street. We delve into Mortons’ Archive to give some idea of the surprising variety of road and sporting machinery – all quite Devoid of Trouble – that the…
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Never built – the 500cc V-twin Morini sports that everyone really wanted
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With quality, performance and excellent design apparent in every detail, the 350cc Morini V-twins bore comparison with any Japanese motorcycle – but when the Italian firm upped the capacity to 500cc, it never quite managed to produce the right machine, writes Steve Cooper
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A Norman conquest
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Piers Kurrein from Harrogate, who had a lovely Norman B2CS trials bike on show at The Girder Fork & Classic Motorcycle Club’s Big Bike Sunday at Skipton on June 26, tells about its history and long restoration.
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A Highland venture
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By 1929, the Scottish Six Days Trial (SSDT) had become a fixture in the British motorcycling calendar. Entrants, teams, officials and spectators fondly referred to it, then as now, as their annual ‘holiday in the Highlands.’
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Grandma on a motorcycle
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With a cheery wave, a well-buttoned cardigan and a pair of stout shoes, this go-anywhere granny was headed for the hills.
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Dark day at the races
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With a tragic accident during Friday practice and then a hugely disappointing crowd, enthusiasm was dampened further by race day morning rain. But, gradually, the sun came out and the racing was actually rather good.
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