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Dirt bike orienteering

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27th January 2014

This is fast becoming a must-do fixture on the classic scene with teams travelling from all over Europe to attend. It's two days of orienteering on dirt bikes over literally hundreds of miles of staggering Pyrenees trails. You can expect to cover up to 200 miles a day and two, three and four rider teams…
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Buying Guide: Honda CB175

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9th January 2014

Arriving 12 months after the CD the twin carbed 12v machine also featured something of a Honda trademark, an electric start. With sufficient va va voom to embarrass a 350 Triumph owner, the little CB was something of a watershed for Honda. By then a mainstream UK player the sporty 175 twin effectively defined exactly…
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Buying Guide: Honda CB175

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9th January 2014

Arriving 12 months after the CD the twin carbed 12v machine also featured something of a Honda trademark, an electric start. With sufficient va va voom to embarrass a 350 Triumph owner, the little CB was something of a watershed for Honda. By then a mainstream UK player the sporty 175 twin effectively defined exactly…
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Buying Guide: Honda CB175

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9th January 2014

Arriving 12 months after the CD the twin carbed 12v machine also featured something of a Honda trademark, an electric start. With sufficient va va voom to embarrass a 350 Triumph owner, the little CB was something of a watershed for Honda. By then a mainstream UK player the sporty 175 twin effectively defined exactly…
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Triumph Quadrent

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8th January 2014

Quadrent never made it to production The same capacity as Triumph’s Trident, Honda’s CB750 caught the public eye by virtue of its extra cylinder and race tech spec, though it wasn’t particularly fast. Naturally, thoughts at the then experimental department at Kitts Green turned to a four too. So, how did they do it? Design…
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Hitchcock's spares haul

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6th January 2014

Spares galore! Watsonian was the UK importer for new Royal Enfield motorcycles from 1999 until earlier in 2013, when MotoGB took over the reins. During this period Watsonian sold a lot of Royal Enfields, both factory original and its own customised versions, such as the Woodsman and Clubman. Watsonian still sells Royal Enfield motorcycles, both…
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Bikes you should ride… but probably can't

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4th January 2014

Interesting machine from OEC… No matter what modern riders think, it has all been done before and while it is amusing to laugh at old motorcycles and deride them from the 21st century, drawings like this one show people who were in the industry in the 1920s could think ‘outside the box.’ When the military…
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Westland Classic MCC Charity Awards Evening

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2nd January 2014

WCMCC secretary Dick Dampier, Coun Manny Roper, Alison Mills (Headway Somerset) and WCMCC chairman Henry Pinney Since they began almost 30 years ago, the annual Spirit of the Sixties Run held in May and the Coast to Coast Run held in June have become established fixtures in many motorcyclists diaries, attracting riders from as far…
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Triumphant book launch

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1st January 2014

Author Mick Duckworth and the man behind the project Norman Hyde (a veteran of the department) addressed the audience, which included Doug’s son Brendan, ex-Triumph men including John Walford, Bob Trigg and David Green, as well as racers Paul Smart, Percy Tait, John Cooper and Tony Jefferies, among many others. Commented Mick: “I’ve known Norman…
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Bryan Goss opens new shop in Yeovil

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31st December 2013

It is hard to imagine what it was like when he was travelling around Europe in a mate’s Commer van, the two of them sleeping in the back between the bikes, the tools and the riding gear. It’s not the lifestyle you associate with a top ranking motocross rider and his mechanic, but that’s how…
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