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Trend setter
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If Edward Turner hadn’t built this bike, would we all be riding sports singles?
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Vitesse with finesse
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An exhaustive search led to the resurrection of an incredibly rare, but quite fabulous, model.
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Motorcycles dominate at the Land’s End Trial
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Previously an event favoured equally by those of the two-, three- and four-wheeled persuasion, the 1953 Land’s End Trial was one in which the motorcycles took centre stage.
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Trying times
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Have you ever been to a museum and wanted to ‘have a go’ on the exhibits? Now, the National Motorcycle Museum has decided to allow that to happen.
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Pretty special
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This attractive 500cc replica of a Production TT winner started life as a 350cc Viper.
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A question of sport
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When thinking of a sport to combine with football (or soccer to our American friends) the petrol-fuelled revelry of motorcycling hardly seems conducive, but motorcycle football really was all the rage in the 1920s, 30s and even beyond, with crowds flocking to watch the beautiful game played on motorcycles.
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Here’s a car showroom – turn it into a bike shop!
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Concluding the story about motorcycles in his life, Tony Proctor tells how he set up a brand new Yamaha Centre 38 years ago.
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Agricultural it wasn’t – farmer Jack’s Zundapp-Arrow special
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When OBM reader and Adler to Zundapp Club member Bernie alerted us to a long-forgotten Zundapp-Arrow special, it was a simple matter to visit the Mortons Archive and turn up the original report.
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Music to the ears! Suzuki’s GT550 triple
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Steve Cooper fondly remembers Suzuki’s largest air-cooled two-stroke triple – the excellent but often overlooked GT550
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The ‘lightweights’ that time forgot
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Time was slowly running out for Associated Motor Cycles when it launched its new-style 250cc overhead-valve singles in 1958 – but were the sturdy and neat-looking AJS and Matchless models the best they could have offered? asks Pete Kelly.
