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Trend setter
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If Edward Turner hadn’t built this bike, would we all be riding sports singles?
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Here’s a car showroom – turn it into a bike shop!
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Concluding the story about motorcycles in his life, Tony Proctor tells how he set up a brand new Yamaha Centre 38 years ago.
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Agricultural it wasn’t – farmer Jack’s Zundapp-Arrow special
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When OBM reader and Adler to Zundapp Club member Bernie alerted us to a long-forgotten Zundapp-Arrow special, it was a simple matter to visit the Mortons Archive and turn up the original report.
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Music to the ears! Suzuki’s GT550 triple
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Steve Cooper fondly remembers Suzuki’s largest air-cooled two-stroke triple – the excellent but often overlooked GT550
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The ‘lightweights’ that time forgot
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Time was slowly running out for Associated Motor Cycles when it launched its new-style 250cc overhead-valve singles in 1958 – but were the sturdy and neat-looking AJS and Matchless models the best they could have offered? asks Pete Kelly.
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The story of the Ormonde
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Modern literature often relates the decline of the British and continental motorcycle industry in the 1950s and 1960s. Arguably the rot set in before the First World War.
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Vitesse with finesse
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An exhaustive search led to the resurrection of an incredibly rare, but quite fabulous, model.
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Motorcycles dominate at the Land’s End Trial
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Previously an event favoured equally by those of the two-, three- and four-wheeled persuasion, the 1953 Land’s End Trial was one in which the motorcycles took centre stage.
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Trying times
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Have you ever been to a museum and wanted to ‘have a go’ on the exhibits? Now, the National Motorcycle Museum has decided to allow that to happen.
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Pretty special
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This attractive 500cc replica of a Production TT winner started life as a 350cc Viper.
