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  • Frank Melling: The Flying Penguin

    Frank Melling: The Flying Penguin

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    Frank Melling tells a mean tall story. You’d seek him out on Friday night, pint in hand, to hear ripping

  • AJS and Matchless, Post-War Singles and Twins, The Complete Story

    AJS and Matchless, Post-War Singles and Twins, The Complete Story

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    After the Second World War, Associated Motor Cycles’ range of AJS and Matchless models helped put the British worker back on the road. With 350cc and 500cc AJS and Matchless-badged singles based on the military

  • Book Reviews: The Flying Penguin:

    Book Reviews: The Flying Penguin:

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    More stories of a freelance motorcycling journalist IN THIS SECOND part of his autobiography, Frank Melling continues telling the ripping yarns which he started in A Penguin In A Sparrow’s Nest. The Flying Penguin takes

  • Book Review: Giacomo Agostini – A Life in Pictures

    Book Review: Giacomo Agostini – A Life in Pictures

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    Book reviewed by Jonathan Hill Giacomo Agostini is, still, Italy’s most successful and most glamorous motorcycle road racer and, some would argue, the greatest riders of all time. They would have good reason too, when you

  • Vincent Motorcycles: The Untold Story since 1946

    Vincent Motorcycles: The Untold Story since 1946

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    GIVEN THE VINCENT’S reputation as one of the most remarkable motorcycles ever manufactured, any book which attempts to cover the subject needs to be similarly accomplished. This massive hardback, which runs to 400 fact-packed, full-colour

  • Book Review: ‘Sox’ Gary Hocking – the forgotten World Motorcycle Champion

    Book Review: ‘Sox’ Gary Hocking – the forgotten World Motorcycle Champion

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        Gary Hocking was born near Newport, South Wales in 1937 but grew up in Southern Rhodesia, now known as Zimbabwe when his family emigrated in 1947. Nicknamed ‘Sox’ because of his aversion to

  • Far Horizons by Andrew Earnshaw

    Far Horizons by Andrew Earnshaw

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    f you’re going to ride around the world in instalments, then America would seem like a fairly safe place to

  • Donington: The Golden Years by Richard V Jones and Bob Zwarts

    Donington: The Golden Years by Richard V Jones and Bob Zwarts

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    A chance find of an old album of photographs led to the publication of this book, which recalls the halcyon days of motorcycle racing at the Donington circuit…

  • Royal Enfield Trials Bullet

    Royal Enfield Trials Bullet

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    Steve Wilson didn’t really need to ride another Enfield straight away, but we wanted to do the ‘out standing in his field’ joke. So he just had to go a-trialling-oh…

  • 1961 BSA Goldstar DBD34

    1961 BSA Goldstar DBD34

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    When he was 16, Jerry Fiford wanted nothing more than to own a Goldie. 35 years later his dream came true. Was it worth the wait?

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