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  • More two-strokes that Royal Enfield built

    More two-strokes that Royal Enfield built

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    Sam Hewitt

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    There were some sad omissions from the interesting article about Royal Enfield two-strokes (OBM April) because, between the 1920s and 30s, the firm made several other such machines using their own engines. Then in the mid-1960s Royal Enfield produced the GP5 two-stroke racer with an engine designed by Hermann Meier and a Ken Sprayson frame.…

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  • ‘How can I possibly de-coke my James Comet when you keep selling me oversize piston rings?’

    ‘How can I possibly de-coke my James Comet when you keep selling me oversize piston rings?’

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Learning from his two bike-mad brothers, Ken Partington from Manchester knew everything about motorcycles by the time he bought his first bike, a 98cc James Comet, at the age of 16 – or so he thought – until an embarrassing confrontation with a dealer in a bike shop taught him otherwise. At various times during…

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  • Raising the bar with Suzuki’s 200cc screamers

    Raising the bar with Suzuki’s 200cc screamers

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Putting aside the confusing nomenclature of Suzuki’s model range in the 1960s and 70s, the 90mph X5 200cc two-stroke sports twin and SB200 commuter variant were cracking little bikes that needed to be kept on the boil to get the best out of them, writes Steve Cooper. Assuming that you’ve been following our Japanese 175-200…

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  • White Shadow stored for 40 years makes £163,900 in Bonhams’ Spring Stafford Sale

    White Shadow stored for 40 years makes £163,900 in Bonhams’ Spring Stafford Sale

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    Sam Hewitt

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    A ‘barn find’ 1949 998cc Vincent-HRD White Shadow Series-C project beat the pre-sale estimate by more than £100,000 when it went under the hammer for £163,900 (including premium) at the Bonhams’ Spring Stafford Sale on Sunday, April 23. The term ‘White Shadow’ applies to the few Black Shadow-spec machines that left the Stevenage factory without…

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  • Rose of Shires Run celebrates Albert’s epic 1911 marathon

    Rose of Shires Run celebrates Albert’s epic 1911 marathon

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Starting and finishing at the picturesque Stoke Bruerne Canal Museum, this year’s Sunbeam Motor Cycle Club’s Rose of the Shires Run will take place on Sunday, June 11. The 50-mile event celebrates the amazing efforts of Mr Albert E Catt who, over 105 years ago in 1911, took his 3½hp Triumph for an endurance ride…

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  • National Motorcycle Museum Friends get a taste of exotica

    National Motorcycle Museum Friends get a taste of exotica

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    Sam Hewitt

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    After receiving an induction and off-road training, eight members of the National Motorcycle Museum’s Friends scheme experienced the delights of riding some of the most exotic machines from the museum’s collection, including a Brough Superior SS100 and a Norton Rotary F1, around the picturesque Warwickshire countryside on Saturday, March 25. They were escorted by ex-police…

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  • Midsummer night’s dream in Bucks

    Midsummer night’s dream in Bucks

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    Sam Hewitt

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    The Bucks British & Classic Motor Cycle Club’s annual classic concours event for bikes only will take place in the delightful country setting of The Plough at Cadsden, Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire HP27 0NB, at 7.30pm on Wednesday, June 21. With live music, good food and beer, and many trophies to be presented, it’s no surprise…

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  • South-east is Britain’s bike theft hotspot

    South-east is Britain’s bike theft hotspot

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Hundreds of riders took to the streets of London on Saturday, April 1 when the UK Motorcycle Theft Protest (UKMTP) staged two rideouts, one starting at the Ace Café and the other at Greenwich Park, both travelling towards Parliament Square and Tower Bridge, to raise awareness of the increase in motorcycle thefts in the capital.…

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  • The ‘lightweights’ that time forgot

    The ‘lightweights’ that time forgot

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    Sam Hewitt

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    From our 2016 archive Time was slowly running out for Associated Motor Cycles when it launched its new-style 250cc overhead-valve singles in 1958 – but were the sturdy and neat-looking AJS and Matchless models the best they could have offered? asks Pete Kelly. By the time Associated Motor Cycles launched its apparently unit-construction 250cc overhead-valve…

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  • May 2017

    May 2017

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    Sam Hewitt

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    [su_note note_color=”#c0142b” text_color=”#ffffff”]Current issue: May 2017 – Next issue: June 3, 2017 – On sale: May 6[/su_note] NEWS READERS’ LETTERS MADE IN JAPAN FROM OUR ARCHIVE 78TH PIONEER RUN RESULTS DIARY DATES READERS’ TALES IT’S OUR CLUB PROJECT 90 UNEARTHED FEEDBACK CLUB CALL CLASSIFIED SERVICES

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