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  • Top bikes of the Seventies: 4

    Top bikes of the Seventies: 4

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    John Nutting’s top 40 bikes from the Seventies, distilled from over 200 road tests. Final part, numbers 40 to 31…

  • Classic Camera: Ito on BMW, 1960

    Classic Camera: Ito on BMW, 1960

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    Japan’s trailblazing rider Fumio Ito in action during the 1960 Austrian GP. That year, he made his full grand prix debut, finishing sixth in the season opening French Grand Prix, round one of the 500c world championship…

  • Workshop: Yamaha XS650 overhaul: 1

    Workshop: Yamaha XS650 overhaul: 1

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    Our 1979 Yamaha XS650 had struggled on the daily commute, then got packed away and forgotten in a damp cellar for almost five years, so it wasn’t a pretty sight. You join the overhaul with the engine already removed from the frame and stripped…

  • 750cc fours tested

    750cc fours tested

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    At the dawn of the 80s the choice of 750cc sportbikes was limited to conventional in-line fours from Honda, Kawasaki and Suzuki. Larger capacity bikes satisfied the power hungry, but the 750s were more agile rides and began to win back support. John Nutting rode three of the best…

  • Buying Guide: Moto Morini V-twins

    Buying Guide: Moto Morini V-twins

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    Ignore the Moto Morini V-twins at you peril. Great, surefooted handling, soulful engines and they look a million dollars, even when parked up…

  • The Classic MotorCycle needs you!

    The Classic MotorCycle needs you!

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    We need to know what you think about The Classic MotorCycle. What do you like or dislike? For your trouble all entries will go into a prize draw, and you could win one of the seven cash prizes, the top prize being £250!

  • Classic Motorcycle Mechanics Reader Survey 2013

    Classic Motorcycle Mechanics Reader Survey 2013

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    As a reader of CMM magazine, we already know that you have firm opinions and excellent judgement – and now we’d love you to tell us what you like and don’t like about the magazine, and why…

  • Reference: The Grigg side-valve V-twin – August 1923

    Reference: The Grigg side-valve V-twin – August 1923

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    The August 16, 1923 issue of The Motor Cycle announced that the Grigg Motor & Engineering Company in Winchester Road, Twickenham would be marketing a range of single-cylinder and V-twin engines under the patents of Messrs Bacher and Hellow, who were responsible for B and H engines…

  • Buying Guide: Suzuki GSXR750

    Buying Guide: Suzuki GSXR750

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    Following the success of the GSX series and Katanas, Suzuki upped the ante with the first GSXRs. A thinly disguised street legal race bike, the GSXR750 was an instant success…

  • Road Test: Kawasaki A7SS

    Road Test: Kawasaki A7SS

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    Tighten up your chin strap, slip on some cool shades and politely advise your cardio-vascular system that it’s about to get a good sized dollop of adrenaline; it’s Kawasaki 350cc street scrambler time…

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