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  • Clutch – a history

    Clutch – a history

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    Pioneer riders, on direct drive motorcycles, struggled on steep hills and with starting their machines. The advent of clutches, along with methods of altering drive ratios, broadened their horizons immeasurably…

  • Road Test: Triumph Trident T160

    Road Test: Triumph Trident T160

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    Triumph’s three cylinder Trident provided the signature sound for racers in the early Seventies and led to the best of the bunch, the T160, made for just a year from 1975. John Nutting explains…

  • Italian favourites part two

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    John Nutting’s concluding look at Seventies Italian classics, starting with the Ducati 350 Desmo and closing with a Moto Guzzi Le Mans Mkl…

  • Geoff Duke holds Court

    Geoff Duke holds Court

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    After dominating the 1954 500cc World Championship on his Gilera, Geoff Duke was a guest of Motor Cycle to that year’s Earls Court Motorcycle Show and offered his views…

  • Italian Vincent

    Italian Vincent

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    ‘Vincent of Italy’ is what MM claimed for their motorcycles. Tim Holmes and Patrick Uden take a closer look at a painstakingly restored example by bike restoration expert James Tennant-Eyles…

  • Leinster road races

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    In 1923, a handicap system determined the outcome of an all new 100 mile road races in the south of Ireland. It meant the fastest didn’t always come away with the spoils of victory…

  • Triton

    Triton

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    Installing a Triumph engine into a Norton Featherbed frame, creating a ‘Triton’ was a common mechanical act in years gone by. But few are built to the level of this one…

  • Top bikes of the Seventies: 3

    Top bikes of the Seventies: 3

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    Continuing with John Nutting’s look at Seventies specials. Here we’re focusing on league positions 30 to 21. Is your favourite included?

  • Reference: BSA CB34

    Reference: BSA CB34

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    BSA’s Clubman Gold Star is one of the most iconic and revered British motorcycles ever made, and rightly so. This CB34 is a touch earlier – and rarer – than the more usual Beeza Clubman DBDs, but it still has plenty of pedigree…

  • Road Test: Velocette singles

    Road Test: Velocette singles

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    The keys to a successful marriage may be hanging in the garage, judging by the longevity of this Velocette-inspired union between two kindred spirits. Mike Lewis looks at a Velocette 250 MOV (WD) and the more traditional looking 350 MAC…

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