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Golden moment
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While prices of Triumph and Norton twins have risen steadily, BSA’s pre-unit 650 is still eminently affordable. It’s also (don’t tell anyone) a better bike in many respects…
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A walk in the woods with world champions
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IMOLA – MOTOCROSS MECCA When talk turns to Imola it usually concerns a close fought bike or car race – there have been a few – and sadly that it was on the notorious Tamburello curve where Ayrton Senna was killed in 1994. Imola’s 5km Enzo e Dino circuit, which runs anti-clockwise and incorporates a…
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Doing the Double: Freddie Spencer’s story
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After Freddie Spencer won his first 500cc title in 1983 at 21, making him the youngest person to do so, Honda created the radical NSR500 V4 for the following year. Teething problems and a broken collarbone relegated him to fourth in the championship, despite three race wins. Fast Freddie tells Alan Cathcart about the road…
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Jock Taylor: Pride of Scotland
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Scotland has only had two road racing world champions, Fergus Kenrick Anderson and John Robert Taylor, better known as Jock Taylor. Both were later killed taking part in the sport they loved. Chris Carter takes up the story.
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Golden era for ‘The Southern’
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Before the 1954 Manx Grand Prix success of Derek Ennett, George Costain and Sid Mizen, the Southern Motorcycle Club held its race meetings at Andreas Airfield.
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Mick Grant on the Honda NR500
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Two minutes. That’s how long it took Mick Grant to consider the offer Honda’s Gerald Davison made. Somewhere behind the team trucks, hardly hidden from the camera’s eye, Davison asked the then Kawasaki rider if he would be interested in joining Honda’s Grand Prix team in 1979. Grant said yes and stood on the brink…
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ISDT: The Manx Decade
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The Isle of Man is no stranger to motorcycle sport though generally the action takes place on the 37 or so miles of the Mountain TT race circuit. However, three times a major international event has used much more of the island than the roadways.
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Going Dotty
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A great idea – pitch a standard bike against a works bike and add in a modern version used regularly… then get a genuine works rider to test them. CDB goes Dotty.
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Remembering that very first Dragon Rally
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John Wallis’s report on this year’s Dragon Rally a few issues back reminded Eddie Steptoe of the bitterly cold morning he set off from Ilford with his late wife, Kit, on their Triumph sidecar outfit to attend the very first ‘Dragon’ at Bryn Bras Castle in February 1962.
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A lifetime of memories with an old police bike
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Bernard Ratcliffe tells Pete Kelly about his 61-year love affair with an ex-Metropolitan Police Triumph Speed Twin.
