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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?
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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…
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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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It’s dirt bike heaven – and much more – at Telford
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After a year of detailed planning, the Classic Dirt Bike Show at the International Centre, Telford, on February 20-21 is ready to roll – and what a feast is in store!
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When sidecar outfits delivered the goods
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During last year’s ‘Team Katy’ journey to further the cause of the Alzheimer’s Society, Mick Payne came across several reminders of the days when sidecar outfits played all kinds of everyday commercial roles.
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‘Bloody head on a stick’ – Dragon tales and nightmares from 1964
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It’s that time of year again – and John Askham graphically records his journey in a pal’s sidecar outfit to his very first Dragon Rally, the 1964 event at Gwrych Castle, near Abergele.
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Yamaha’s TX500/750 – so right and yet so wrong
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When Yamaha decided to raise its stakes in the four-stroke game, it was with a beautiful-looking and quite radical eight-valve twin which, on paper, should have been an absolute winner. But the truth was rather different, writes Steve Cooper.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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