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Over the last few months, Steve Cooper has stomped through Yamaha’s earlier back catalogue of machinery, showing the steep learning curve that the factory covered in those years… Even if the factory had adopted the more logical format of horizontally split crankcases for the seminal 350cc YR1 in 1967 it had persisted with the more…

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Pete Kelly buries himself in the Mortons Motorcycle Archive to learn how the road testers of old viewed the lusty performances of the 998cc Vincent Black Shadow and 692cc Royal Enfield Constellation. This month we’ve taken two British roadburners with completely different specifications and characters as the subject of our Mortons Motorcycle Archive feature –…

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Fifty years ago, Yamaha took one final roll of the dice with an engine design that had been part and parcel of their line-up since their very first twin had appeared back in 1959. Steve Cooper takes a closer look. Although part of the long line of YDS 250cc two-stroke twins, Yamaha took the slightly…

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Fifty years ago, Yamaha took one final roll of the dice with an engine design that had been part and parcel of their line-up since their very first twin had appeared back in 1959. Steve Cooper takes a closer look. Although part of the long line of YDS 250cc two-stroke twins, Yamaha took the slightly…

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With this year seeing the second running of this unique event at Lincolnshire’s Cadwell Park, the weekend of June 22-23 also marks the 70th anniversary of the FIM World Sidecar Championship, which is the longest surviving road racing championship that actually remains in the same format as it was in its year of introduction, 1949,…

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Just like buses, you wait for ages then two turn up together.

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With production covering no less than seven years, Phil Hannam takes a closer look at how the Norton Model 7 changed in that period, and why.

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While the Hinckley Triumph twin cylinder engine has now been developed into a 1200cc water-cooled behemoth, the smaller capacity version is still being used to expand the range, as Dave Manning discovers. Although it isn’t as radical as Hinckley’s big bore retro off-roader, the Scrambler 1200, the Street Scrambler 900 is actually far more accurate…

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