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  • Lone Rider: around the world by BMW

    Lone Rider: around the world by BMW

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    Back in the early 1980s, Elspeth Beard took her broken heart, packed up her BMW airhead boxer, and rode it

  • Honda Valkyrie

    Honda Valkyrie

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    Honda’s six-cylinder ‘power cruiser’ certainly turned heads when it arrived two decades ago. It turned out to be an inspired

  • Vincent Black Shadow

    Vincent Black Shadow

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    When the Vincent Black Shadow was announced in 1948 it wowed the world with a top speed of 125mph. Since

  • Torrens: the classic motorcyclist

    Torrens: the classic motorcyclist

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    Back in the days of black and white, when the Green ’Un and Blue ’Un ruled the motorcycling roost, journalist,

  • Ride Of My Life

    Ride Of My Life

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    In Ride of My Life, racer and writer Frank Melling tells of a few of the bikes and experiences, bad

  • Lone Rider

    Lone Rider

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    35 years ago, Elspeth Beard became the first British woman to ride solo around the world, and she accomplished this

  • Only Bounders Ride Motorcycles

    Only Bounders Ride Motorcycles

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    By Pete Kelly I sometimes think that Yorkshiremen are born with dry humour – and it simply falls from the pages of Ken Mellor’s self-published book, Only Bounders Ride Motorcycles, 100 Years of Family Motorcycling.

  • A Racing Read

    A Racing Read

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    For British motorcycle road racing fans of the mid-1960s to mid-1970s there was no better racer than Peter Williams. Usually

  • Motorcycling in the 50s

    Motorcycling in the 50s

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    Raiding the bound volumes of the old ‘Green ’Un’ and ‘Blue ’Un’ weeklies in Mortons’ impressive Archive month after month for Old Bike Mart material, this reviewer loved the black and white, almost ‘scrapbook’ design

  • Isle of Man TT, The Golden Years, 1963-1982

    Isle of Man TT, The Golden Years, 1963-1982

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    Encompassing the years 1963 to 1982, Isle of Man TT, The Golden Years, brings those exciting years back to life with 108 unforgettable images.How this reviewer remembers the crisp, smooth sound of Max Deubel’s fabulous

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