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Sand, rails and motorcycles
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Neil Cairns outlines the historical links between motorcycles and an old narrow gauge industrial line in Bedfordshire as he tells of the growing success of the ‘Sand and Motorcycles’ event at the Leighton Buzzard Railway, now in its seventh year.
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The BSA Bantam: something worth crowing about
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Hands up all those who’ve never owned or ridden a BSA Bantam! Even if your arm’s in the air, you probably know someone who did or still does! With the help of the BSA Bantam Club and photos from the Mortons Archive, Pete Kelly recounts the history of one of the most popular lightweights of…
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A social history of motorcycling- Part 4: The One Percenters (1947-1950)
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In this series of extracts from his forthcoming book, Mike Lewis looks at the evolution of social motorcycling in Britain and the USA.
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The first twin
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Valentine Page designed a 650cc Triumph four years before Edward Turner’s 500cc Speed Twin. In many ways, the earlier machine was the more advanced.
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When two men go to work
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The enthusiasm, passion and hard graft of a father and son duo has resulted in a museum dedicated to charting the history of one France’s ‘big four’ motorcycle makers.
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Green day
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Aermacchi’s road going efforts have never enjoyed much publicity, which, as this rare five-speed Ala Verde (Green Wing)
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Extra special
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If ecomonic constraints had not been such a dominant factor at Hall Green, this very special KSS could have been released under the Velocette name in the 1950s. This one-of-a-kind example was built in period, making it all the more remarkable.
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The bronze racers
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Abandoned since 1939, these tarnished bronze racers sit patiently waiting for their chance to shine once more.
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Lito X-cam
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This bike created a sensation at Earls Court Motorcycle Show in 1966. In a world in which two-strokes suddenly had taken the lead in motocross, there were still lots of sympathies for classic four-stroke machines. Could the Lito X-cam have rewritten history?
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Original and unrestored
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It started off as a nice idea when CDB was offered a totally original Francis-Barnett trials bike to feature. How many other comp bikes had survived unrestored, we asked, can’t be many surely? Maybe we’d get three or four out of the idea… seems there are more survivors out there than we thought. Anyway, just…
