Features
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How I bought a BSA A7 – at the ripe old age of 14!
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Stirred by Old Bike Mart’s request for bike shop memories, Tony Proctor recalls his own early motorcycling days, which grew from mimicking his scrambling heroes.
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Laverda 500 – the twin that came oh, so close
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’Ullo, ’ullo! What’s an Italian motorcycle doing on Steve Cooper’s Japanese pages? It’s all about comparisons and giving praise where it’s due, that’s what – and something the more extreme ‘Jap knockers’ might consider reciprocating once in a while?
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Take five – whichever suits your style
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Before Royal Enfield’s sensationally-styled Continental GT made its debut, the 250cc Crusader line had already evolved into two variations on a very agreeable five-speed theme – the leading link front fork Super 5 and the sporty-looking Continental. This is how the road testers of the day saw them.
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Flying machine
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There are few motorcycles which are in an elevated class, separated from the vast majority of their peers. This, though, is one of them.
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The remarkable feats of Harry Lorraine
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Always the showman, film star (and stuntman) Harry Lorraine sought to thrill audiences across Great Britain in the 1920s with his many acts of daring astride his Douglas flat-twin motorcycle.
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The need to diversify
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Though his primary interest was producing high-quality performance machines, Philip Vincent was keen to look at other opportunities too.
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Spiritual homage
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With lots of late 1960s and 1970s BMWs ending up as café racers this more authentic take, paying tribute to the beautiful Rennsport, makes a refreshing change.
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Replicas, specials, fakes and forgeries
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The seamy world of fakes, replicas and specials is one which can be navigated when armed with an understanding of what constitutes those terms, as well as a bit of nous to ensure you’re not being taken for a ride.
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Striking Gold!
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A conversation between Robert Davies from CBG and restorer Peter Collins provides much food for thought for potential rebuilders….
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Scrambled egg
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Take a tall frame, add a torquey twin engine, high bars and high pipes, and head for the countryside!
