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  • Rapid advances: technology takes a hold

    Rapid advances: technology takes a hold

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    So, technology, it’s here to stay, what’s your favourite improvement for old dirt bikes? Rapid advances: technology takes a hold Sometimes the absurdity of a situation comes along and slaps you metaphorically on the cheek…

  • Cadwell park anniversary

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    In your look back over eight decades of motorcycle sport at Cadwell Park 80th anniversary celebrations you seem to have missed the one major decade I cannot see or read any mention of the 1960s

  • The weather has been frightful… but is bound to improve soon. Meanwhile, a meander through tales of torrents past…

    The weather has been frightful… but is bound to improve soon. Meanwhile, a meander through tales of torrents past…

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    The weather is a recurring theme in UK motorcycle sport, I suppose it is elsewhere in the world too just those who live outside Great Britain don’t seem to take discussing it to such great

  • A Take On The TriBSA

    A Take On The TriBSA

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    I liked the TriBSA feature in the last issue and thought I’d send photos of my TriBSA that my son, Geoff, bought from Ian Davis. Davis made third place in the Welsh Championship on 2010

  • ISDT Decade

    ISDT Decade

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    I’ve just finished reading your great article about the UK decade of ISDT. I was looking for a restoration project last summer and looked up a friend who used to have a Honda dealership. He

  • IN BALANCE: A sad occasion

    IN BALANCE: A sad occasion

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    Husband, father, brother, uncle and off-road legend – RIP Martin Lampkin. It isn’t only the trials world that will have been saddened by the passing of inaugural world trials champion Martin Lampkin as, like many

  • Mystery Solved

    Mystery Solved

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    I’VE BEEN LOOKING at the mystery bike photo in April’s issue. Not very good is it? However, to me the bike is not a Cotton, but a New Imperial. You can clearly see the almost-meeting

  • Praise For Morris

    Praise For Morris

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    I really enjoyed the Dave Morris piece in the current issue of Classic Racer about BMW’s ‘forgetfulness’ in their PR for Michael Dunlop’s TT wins this year, but surely you too have forgotten something? If

  • ISDT ’73

    ISDT ’73

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    I really enjoyed your article and photos in CDB on the 1973 ISDT. It brought back many memories for me as I was there as a member of the RAF team alongside Jonathan Tye and

  • Famous Last Words 35: Motorcycles Old, New, Classic and Retro

    Famous Last Words 35: Motorcycles Old, New, Classic and Retro

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    Old bikes are old bikes are old bikes, says Frank Westworth. Except, of course, when they’re new…

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