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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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Motorcycling most fowl
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Mark Williams meets a man whose mission in life is making BSA’s modest little workhouse a force to be reckoned with.
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User friendly
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Forget ankle-snapping big singles with racing gear ratios and agonising riding positions. Try something more civilised from the house of the horse
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Le Mans alike
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You want a bike which looks, sounds and steers like an old Italian. But running a classic as a daily ride might not be entirely convenient…
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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…
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Star quality
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This handsome, sporting single has been restored to its original specification. But, despite appearances, it is not a Gold Star…
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The Three Musketeers
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The Norton works team boasted some of the most prodigiously skilled riders of any era of British motorsport. Preceding the likes of Geoff Duke, Ray Amm, Harold Daniell et al, in the late 1920s going into the 1930s there were such luminaries as Stanley Woods, Jimmy Guthrie, Jimmy Simpson and Tim Hunt. The latter three…
