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When two men go to work
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The enthusiasm, passion and hard graft of a father and son duo has resulted in a museum dedicated to charting the history of one France’s ‘big four’ motorcycle makers.
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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.
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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
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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…
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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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