When you buy a spare engine for a classic bike, you’re never sure about its internal condition – but when Mark Hiscox of Cambridge pulled from his garage shelf a 1954 Ariel Huntmaster engine that
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Service with a salute!
Once upon a time, breakdown help was more of a club affair than merely an insurance scheme with multiple marketing spin-offs run by giant companies. Photos from the Mortons Archive tell the story of the
Read moreA Vindec at 14, then Triumphs all my life
Graham Overd tells of a lifetime of motorcycling memories, from keeping a stock of box sidecars for sixteeners taking the bigger bike, three-wheel ‘L’ plate option to building off-road specials and proudly riding a succession
Read moreNo ramps required! Motolug ingenuity makes motorcycle trailer-loading a doddle
Ingenious, versatile and affordable, Motolug collapsible motorcycle trailers are designed and manufactured at the Cotswold Business Village at Moreton in Marsh, Gloucestershire. Founded in 2007, the business offers a unique range of UK and internationally
Read moreA second-hand outfit – at half the cost of many new sidecars
Mick Payne concludes his series about getting into sidecar riding by looking at a bargain second-hand outfit with great possibilities. The word serendipity, first coined by Horace Walpole in 1754, is said to be one
Read moreMiddleweight brilliance
Steve Cooper explains why there’s never been a better time to buy a middleweight Japanese classic. As he stepped off his Panigale, the guy in the Ducati-logoed leathers said: “That’s a nice wee bike.” He
Read moreFROM OUR ARCHIVES: It’s a cover-up!
Pete Kelly looks back to the motorcycle styling practices that led to the ‘bathtub’ era of the late 1950s and early 60s. Putting on my steam railway hat for a brief moment, in Victorian times
Read moreMade to measure…
Mick Payne looks at the pros and cons of ‘chairing up’ a motorcycle you already own rather than buying a whole new outfit in one go. The theme of last month’s column was how to
Read moreLittle-end trouble – and a weekend to remember!
Chris Dickinson recalls a hectic scramble to get his Suzuki GT185 back on to the road after a little-end bearing disintegrated as he rode home for the weekend from a summer job at RAF Marham.
Read moreMeet ‘Velo Knud’ Rasmussen – a Hall Green fan in Denmark
Danish Old Bike Mart reader Knud Rasmussen, otherwise known as ‘Velo Knud’, tells of his passion for Velocette motorcycles which began with the sight and sound of a postman’s 1946 MAC. It was our country
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