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    Stud issues

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    A motorcycle strip-down will often stall with fasteners stubbornly stuck in situ. Before resorting to the electric drill, a range of agents, planned force and tools often removes all but the most awkward customers…

  • Triumph Tiger Cub

    Triumph Tiger Cub

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    The pretty Triumph Tiger Cub has always attracted a fair following, which continues to be the case

  • Brough Superior SS80

    Brough Superior SS80

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    Examination of a university academic’s Brough Superior proves it to be in a class of its own

  • Yamaha RD350B buying guide

    Yamaha RD350B buying guide

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    Stories of 750 owners being traumatised by a well-ridden Yamaha 350 are not the stuff of legend, rather, a very well documented fact. It’s realistically now very difficult to convey just what a complete package the Yamaha 350 was. Ostensibly a 350 in a 250 frame, the model was a performance ground breaker…

  • Suzuki GT750: part two

    Suzuki GT750: part two

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    In part one Rod Gibson started the reassembly of our project ‘Kettle’, Suzuki’s three-cylinder two stroke GT750. Now the wheels can go on to the chassis, and the engine begins to take shape…

  • Panther Model 100

    Panther Model 100

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    There’s much can be said about Yorkshire folk, but one thing in their favour is their thrift. So it was with Phelon & Moore, motorcycle manufacturers of Cleckheaton. Why make a new engine when the old one is perfectly adequate? Phil Mather finds a Panther Model 100 which proves the point…

  • BSA C15 v Royal Enfield Crusader

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    Taking a humble 250cc unit four-stroke and turning it into a successful trials machine takes a bit of knowledge and ability. Classic Dirtbike compares two different specialist approaches to the same end – a BSA C15T and Royal Enfield Crusader…

  • BSA A10 café racer

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    Building a bike from bits is an expensive way to do it these days, but it makes sense if half the bits are already in your possession – and if it’s done properly, the results can be very tasty indeed, as Jim Reynolds discovered…

  • Bradbury ‘Speed’ Model

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    The Bradbury 3½hp single was unusual for having its engine case integral within its frame, an arrangement that offered several advantages…

  • Suzuki GS1000

    Suzuki GS1000

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    Twenty five years ago, the young Rod Ker always thought the GS750 was a better bike than its 1000cc successor. So it’s with some reluctance that we have to report that this test has done nothing to change the churlish Mr. Ker’s mind…

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