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  • The H1 triple: Kawasaki’s outrageous game-changer

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    It drank like a fish and reared up at the drop of a hat, but Kawasaki’s crazy two-stroke triple certainly got the firm noticed, writes Steve Cooper.  

  • All about the timing

    All about the timing

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    The Brighton Speed Trials, one of the oldest events in the calendar, returned on September 5, 2015, with a varied and competitive entry.  

  • Big day out

    Big day out

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    There was a stronger than anticipated attendance at this season’s National Motorcycle Museum open day. 

  • A life less ordinary

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    Few men in motorcycling led as full a life as the genial, pipe-smoking Italian designer Leopoldo Tartarini, who passed away on September 11 at his home in the hills outside Bologna, at the age of 83. 

  • A Triumph of ingenuity

    A Triumph of ingenuity

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    A stint as deputy manager for the Vase team in the 1973 ISDT gave Chris Oliver first-hand experience of the Triumph Adventurer based team bikes… handy when he came to build a replica. 

  • RE 250 Crusader MX

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    If the family business is based around Royal Enfield then there’s only one choice of machine for your scrambles debut… we check out Daniel Hitchcock’s Crusader 250 scrambler. 

  • Quaint BUT PRACTICAL

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    “These are bespoke machines for the refined rider.” All those fabled ancient virtues in a rigidly simple machine which provides a refreshing change of classic clothes… 

  • Family fun

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    Big Brit single cylinder sloggers were built to haul sidecars. So what’s their purpose in the modern world? 

  • Over-shadowed

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    Vincent’s single is inevitably eclipsed by its twin cylinder siblings. Yet it’s the better bike for real world riding 

  • Cantilever Beezer

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    These days a monoshock or cantilever suspension system is considered ‘normal’, but in 1962 John Wilkinson must have caused a bit of a stir when he turned up at a scramble with this Goldie. 


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