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  • Eagle soars again

    Eagle soars again

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    This freshly restored 350cc JAP-engined Coventry-Eagle has returned to the road for the first time in more than half a century.  

  • Mystery train

    Mystery train

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    This oil-in-frame 650cc T120 Bonneville emerged from the confusion of the Meriden blockade. Today it pulls like a train – but is a bit of a mystery… 

  • Small but strong

    Small but strong

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    The BSA C11 was a solid, workmanlike motorcycle, possessing many of the attributes of its bigger brethren, presented in a pint-sized package.  

  • UneXpected pleasure

    UneXpected pleasure

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    A big, overweight, wobbly sidecar tug, right? Well, no, that’s not what the late Matchless Model X is at all.  

  • Portway promenade

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    Lovely period photograph, from June 1933, of motorcyclists and their machines lined on the Portway, Bristol. ‘… the fine concrete road and promenade running beside the river Avon in the deep Avon Gorge at Clifton, a suburb of Bristol.’Lovely period photograph, from June 1933, of motorcyclists and their machines lined on the Portway, Bristol. ‘……

  • TRAILBLAZERS: KEEPING MOTORCYCLE HISTORY ALIVE IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

    TRAILBLAZERS: KEEPING MOTORCYCLE HISTORY ALIVE IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

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    Anywhere in the world of motorcycling, especially where racing has been popular, there comes a day when people start to wonder where their friends, heroes or fellow competitors have gone. Sadly, we usually know the

  • McIntosh: The machines

    McIntosh: The machines

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    Aucklander Dave Morley is now onto his second immaculate McIntosh Manx Norton 500. McIntosh: The machines Lucky boy Terry Stevenson gets to canter the McIntosh Manx. His other race bike remains a ‘work in progress’,

  • Bob Smith: the peoples’ champion

    Bob Smith: the peoples’ champion

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    EVERY now and again there arises a rider who could hop on any bike and blast the hell out of his peers. Mike Hailwood was one, Bill Ivy another. But there’s another example – albeit

  • Hurley Wilvert: From mechanic to the world stage

    Hurley Wilvert: From mechanic to the world stage

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    Hurley Wilvert was a mechanic and amateur racer who earned his shot at the big time in the early 1970s. By 1974, he was on the podium of the Daytona 200 with Giacomo Agostini and

  • ENDLESS SUMMER: A Month of Racing in the Isle of Man – 1966

    ENDLESS SUMMER: A Month of Racing in the Isle of Man – 1966

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    The Isle of Man is reliant on the services of the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company to transport the vast majority of the Island’s needs, not least the tourists that flock to Mona’s Isle,

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