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  • Motorcycling most fowl

    Motorcycling most fowl

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    Mark Williams meets a man whose mission in life is making BSA’s modest little workhouse a force to be reckoned with. 

  • User friendly

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    Forget ankle-snapping big singles with racing gear ratios and agonising riding positions. Try something more civilised from the house of the horse 

  • Le Mans alike

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    You want a bike which looks, sounds and steers like an old Italian. But running a classic as a daily ride might not be entirely convenient… 

  • Lito X-cam

    Lito X-cam

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    This bike created a sensation at Earls Court Motorcycle Show in 1966. In a world in which two-strokes suddenly had taken the lead in motocross, there were still lots of sympathies for classic four-stroke machines. Could the Lito X-cam have rewritten history?  

  • Original and unrestored

    Original and unrestored

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    It started off as a nice idea when CDB was offered a totally original Francis-Barnett trials bike to feature. How many other comp bikes had survived unrestored, we asked, can’t be many surely? Maybe we’d get three or four out of the idea… seems there are more survivors out there than we thought. Anyway, just…

  • An achiever passes

    An achiever passes

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    The death of the famous race mechanic and motorcycle maker Arturo Magni gives opportunity to reflect on his remarkable career.  

  • Three decades on the pegs

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    Often seen tearing around West Country scrambles tracks on one of his trusty BSA Gold Stars, John Trible was never an opponent to be taken lightly throughout his 30-year off-road career. 

  • Stellar Sunbeam

    Stellar Sunbeam

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    With motorcycles regularly coming and going, it is a slightly uncommon occurrence for Eric Patterson to label any one machine as “a keeper”. Regarding this beautiful unrestored Sunbeam, however, that is exactly what he did. 

  • Star quality

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    This handsome, sporting single has been restored to its original specification. But, despite appearances, it is not a Gold Star…  

  • The Three Musketeers

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    The Norton works team boasted some of the most prodigiously skilled riders of any era of British motorsport. Preceding the likes of Geoff Duke, Ray Amm, Harold Daniell et al, in the late 1920s going into the 1930s there were such luminaries as Stanley Woods, Jimmy Guthrie, Jimmy Simpson and Tim Hunt. The latter three…

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