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  • Kawasaki KX500

    Kawasaki KX500

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    How special are works bikes? Just ‘special’ or ‘very special’? CDB asks the question and Dave King answers…

  • Classic British Legends: Cadwell Park

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    Fondly nicknamed as the mini-Nürburgring, Cadwell Park has been the favourite circuit of many a rider and spectator alike. It still is… almost 80 years on from its first speed event…

  • Vincent Comet Series A

    Vincent Comet Series A

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    The Series A Vincent-HRD singles were the model which set the Stevenage maker on the road to immortality…

  • BSA A65 Spitfire Hornet

    BSA A65 Spitfire Hornet

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    As rarities go, they don’t come much more unusual than this US-only off-road BSA A65 competition twin…

  • Yamaha RD250

    Yamaha RD250

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    Yamaha’s RD250 two stroke twin was the first production bike to use reed valves to help deliver some midrange without killing performance elsewhere. But they were viewed with suspicion…

  • Moto Morini V twins

    Moto Morini V twins

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    Ignore the Moto Morini V-twins at you peril. Great, surefooted handling, soulful engines and they look a million dollars…

  • Indian Chief

    Indian Chief

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    From engineering brilliance to obso­lesence, Richard Renstrom charts the rise and fall of Indian’s mighty Chief…

  • Eppynt road race may 1953

    Eppynt road race may 1953

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    With sunshine bathing the Brecknockshire mountains, spectators perched on those slopes were treated to a day of racing which, said Motor Cycling, ‘…could hardly have been bettered’

  • BSA A65 Lightning Clubman

    BSA A65 Lightning Clubman

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    The BSA A65 Lightning Clubman was the top of the range unit construction BSA, in many ways the replacement for the Rocket Gold Star as BSA’s twin-cylinder racer on the road…

  • Triumph IR ‘Ricardo’

    Triumph IR ‘Ricardo’

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    When Triumph decided its range needed expanding and an overhead valve model should be added, the firm decided on awarding the task to an ‘outside’ consultant, Harry Ricardo…

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