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  • The long-running Watsonian Palma range

    The long-running Watsonian Palma range

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    Mick Payne looks back at the long history of the Watsonian Squire Palma range of sidecars, which were innovative at the time of their introduction and remain available to this day.  

  • Imps in the Island

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    Despite a modest competition budget, Birmingham maker New Imperial won six IoM TT victories and many top 10 places. Recalling this record, one asks – how? It’s impossible to understand New Imp’s housekeeping but we can look at and read between the lines of the IoM record. 

  • The yellow motorbike revived

    The yellow motorbike revived

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    This was a restoration with a difference, featuring two (self-proclaimed) grumpy old men and a workaday legend.  

  • Two careful owners

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    That’s all this beautiful 1956 Tiger 110 Triumph has had. Though its original owner sold it in 1961, it was left to him in the second owner’s will. 

  • Bigger than ever!

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    The ASI MotoShow is a real celebration of motorcycling, with a hugely diverse amount of stunning machinery taking to the track.  

  • The camera does lie

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    The start of the 1967 Ulster Grand Prix. But all is not, perhaps, as it seems 

  • Different strokes for 80s blokes

    Different strokes for 80s blokes

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    Saying ‘Konnichiwa’ to Honda’s NS400R was not the ‘Banzai’ charge that other two-stroke race replicas offered in the mid-80s. But it was no shrinking violet either…  

  • A new hope

    A new hope

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    Triumph’s first Speed Twin. This really is where it all began… 

  • Something wicked

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    Smooth, sophisticated, almost civilised. But have the later Jotas lost their je ne sais quoi? 

  • Norton CEO discusses the future

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    Steady, But Sure 

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