Moto Guzzi 850 T3 Here’s the story, streaked in unusual pastel colours through the rose-tinted spectacles of 30-plus years ago. It is perhaps rather poignant that it should be narrated by me, an Italian girl
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Mine’s a sidecar, my friend!
Panthers were a favourite of the sidecar crowd for many years I can’t really claim any credit for the way the bike looks, points out Bill Moore, current custodian of this Panther 100 and sidecar.
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BSA ‘Sloper’ Then, over a few weeks in the early Seventies, it was assembled to running order in my grandfather’s garage. One of my earliest memories is of it being started, then run up a
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Douglas racer When permission was given after World War 2 to resume the manufacture of motorcycles for civilian use, Douglas received this news with some confidence. When William Douglas had disposed of his shares during
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Around the world Douglas Sometimes the urge to travel far and wide presents itself quite spontaneously, as was the case when Robert Edison Fulton Junior came to the end of a year's study at the
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Sunbeam S7 Sunbeam was yet another British manufacturer late to enter the burgeoning motorcycle industry, in 1912. Already renowned for the high quality bicycles they made in their Wolverhampton factory, their founder, John Marston, decided
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MV Agusta 750 four superbike Anyone involved with the international road racing scene in the 50s felt very privileged to see at close quarters the fabulous Italian road racing fours either in the pits or
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Brough Superior National heroes rarely have any associations with motorcycles, but this could not be said of Lawrence of Arabia. Exactly how he became associated with the Brough Superior marque is no longer very clear,
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When 1930 dawned, Veloce Limited still had nothing available in their range to bridge the gap between eir moderately priced 250cc two stroke and their more expensive 350cc overhead camshaft models. Their GTP two stroke
Read moreReference: When was it that? Royal Enfield
Royal Enfield prototype Overhead camshaft engines have been with us for a long while, much longer than many would think. In terms of motorcycle engines Peugeot, to quote just one example, had a double overhead
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