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  • Buying Guide: Yamaha YR2C

    Buying Guide: Yamaha YR2C

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    Yamaha’s 350cc YR2C may be rare in the UK, but that’s because the twin cylinder street scrambler was aimed fair and square at the US market. It was another landmark product for Yamaha…

  • Buying Guide: Aspirational artefacts: Suzuki T500

    Buying Guide: Aspirational artefacts: Suzuki T500

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    Despite the total lack of logic to the basic arithmetic involved, certain machines just somehow conspire to be greater than the sum of their component parts…

  • Reference: OK Supreme G39 Flying Cloud

    Reference: OK Supreme G39 Flying Cloud

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    OK Supreme’s Flying Cloud was one of the most romantically named motorcycles and this example inspired an emotional reunion, more than 60 years after its manufacture…

  • Road Test: AJS H1

    Road Test: AJS H1

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    This AJS V-twin combination has benefited from a number of tweaks by its owner, classic motorcycle restoration guru Robin James…

  • Reference: AJS Model 22

    Reference: AJS Model 22

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    The 250cc AJS Model 22 is quite a rarity, though its combination of ‘big bike’ feel and dimensions, plus a willing little engine, should make it a winner…

  • Road Test: BSA C15 v Royal Enfield Crusader

    Road Test: 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 C15 and Royal Enfield Crusader…

  • Road Test: Rickman Street Metisse

    Road Test: Rickman Street Metisse

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    The components for this Rickman Metisse were all bought in the classic period, but never assembled into a complete machine until 2003. It shows that though Don and Derek Rickman were off-road specialists, the twosome also made high quality road kit too…

  • Road Test: Triumph T120 Bonneville

    Road Test: Triumph T120 Bonneville

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    The 1968 Triumph Bonneville was the culmination of the company’s quest to marry ‘precision, power and performance’ and is arguably its best ever twin…

  • Last gasp victory

    Last gasp victory

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    Things couldn’t have been tighter in the third Anglo-American Match Races, run over a cold and sometimes damp Easter weekend in 1973…

  • Buying Guide: Yamaha RD350-YPVS

    Buying Guide: Yamaha RD350-YPVS

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    It’s now 30 years since our lives were transformed by Yamaha’s 350 Power Valve. You’d be rightly forgiven for thinking the average RD350-YPVS had a short, frantic but happy life but we’ve found an example with 156,000 miles on its clock!

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