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Honda CB450 ‘Black Bomber’ – what went wrong?

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Sam Hewitt

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28th April 2017

Steve Cooper pulls no punches as he looks back on the 1965 UK debut of Honda’s first technically brilliant ‘big twin’, the CB450, and the enlarged 500T that followed.
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Wat box was that, did you say?

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Sam Hewitt

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21st April 2017

From a 200cc Durkopp Diana/Royal scooter combo to a potent Ducati 860GT/Watsonian Palma, Mike Searle has tried just about everything on three wheels. It all began after he broke his neck on a Norton Dominator, and here he regales us with some of his memories… I suppose most Old Bike Mart readers over the age…
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Cutting the mustard Yamaha-style

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Sam Hewitt

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21st April 2017

Steve Cooper looks back to the early 1970s, and the introduction of Yamaha’s fiery CS5E & RD200 models. As was observed a little earlier in our series on Japanese 175-200s, Yamaha’s early CS series motorcycles really cut the mustard when it came to performance and value for money. Even as the final batches of CS3s…
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PROJECT 90: How to go about measuring up!

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Sam Hewitt

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21st April 2017

Continuing with his Triumph Tiger 90 project, Tim Britton asks whether it’s really necessary to rip everything out of an engine and replace it wholesale before first utilising the careful measuring methods that could save a whole lot of unnecessary bother. Photos by Fiona Watson. An engine such as the one in our Triumph project…
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When sidecar outfits delivered the goods

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Sam Hewitt

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17th April 2017

FROM THE ARCHIVE During last year’s ‘Team Katy’ journey to further the cause of the Alzheimer’s Society, Mick Payne came across several reminders of the days when sidecar outfits played all kinds of everyday commercial roles. We visited several local museums on our recent trip, and a seemingly recurring exhibit was the sidecar as a…
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You pays your money… and you takes your choice!

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Sam Hewitt

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7th April 2017

FROM OUR ARCHIVES Pete Kelly rifles through Mortons’ Archives and turns up the following road test reports, from 1958 and 1960 respectively, which show how the motorcycle press of the day rated Royal Enfield’s 496cc Meteor Minor de Luxe parallel twin and 499cc Bullet single. Right, you’ve got the deposit together (or at least have…
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Round and round we go…

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Sam Hewitt

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29th March 2017

Four years ago Glenn Jenkins hardly knew what a Suzuki RE5 rotary looked like – but now he has a collection of seven of them, including a stunning café racer! Pete Kelly travelled to a village in Yorkshire to see for himself. ollowing in the footsteps of NSU’s Wankel-engined Ro80 car, whose 10-year production span…
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From ‘Flying Flea’ to Turbo Twin, the two-strokes that Royal Enfield built

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Sam Hewitt

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29th March 2017

Everyone remembers the Crusaders, Bullets, Meteors and Constellations that were the flag-bearers of Royal Enfield’s Redditch factory, but they also made some pretty decent two-strokes as well. In a 1963 road test report on the 249cc Royal Enfield Turbo Twin, The Motor Cycle’s late Midlands editor Bob Currie put his finger on it in the…
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Keeping it in the family!

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Sam Hewitt

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25th March 2017

Old Bike Mart visits Classic Bike Shop in Redditch, where Mike Rogers, his wife Kerrie and son Archie are all part of the enthusiastic team continuing a long-established family tradition steeped in motorcycle dealing and bike jumbling – but in this internet age their business is sending quality-made spares for British motorcycles all over the…
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The world’s fastest Tigger?

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Sam Hewitt

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25th March 2017

Pete Kelly visits Chris Davies at West Midlands Triumph Tiger Cub specialists Meriden Off Road, to learn about his latest product plus preparations for his forthcoming speed record attempt on Pendine Sands in South Wales. Triumph Terrier and Tiger Cub machines must still be coming out of the woodwork, for ever since Chris Davies set…
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