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  • Replicas, specials, fakes and forgeries

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    The seamy world of fakes, replicas and specials is one which can be navigated when armed with an understanding of what constitutes those terms, as well as a bit of nous to ensure you’re not being taken for a ride. 

  • Flying machine

    Flying machine

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    There are few motorcycles which are in an elevated class, separated from the vast majority of their peers. This, though, is one of them. 

  • The remarkable feats of Harry Lorraine

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    Always the showman, film star (and stuntman) Harry Lorraine sought to thrill audiences across Great Britain in the 1920s with his many acts of daring astride his Douglas flat-twin motorcycle.  

  • In full flight

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    Some bikes are icons from the outset. Not so this idiosyncratic 350. But it’s strangely successful as a classic steed… 

  • Striking Gold!

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    A conversation between Robert Davies from CBG and restorer Peter Collins provides much food for thought for potential rebuilders….  

  • Scrambled egg

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    Take a tall frame, add a torquey twin engine, high bars and high pipes, and head for the countryside! 

  • The new Noir

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    Triumph’s new Bonnie looks best in black, so we’re told. We’re also told that the new T120 is close in spirit to the original T120. Hmmm… 

  • Farther, faster

    Farther, faster

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    For some high mileage sports riders of the 1970s, the standard R90S wasn’t quite sufficient 

  • Four play

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    In a large shed at Kitts Green, a few miles from Birmingham city centre, Dennis Poore assembled a team to try and save the British motorcycle industry. 

  • Goffy’s light fantastic!

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    Mick Payne discovers many ways of improving the lighting performance of classic motorcycles as he talks to Paul Goff.  

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