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Needle jets from Amal What are they? They’re Monobloc ‘T’ needle jets as fitted to certain models of Monobloc carburettors. These needle jets, originally made for trials bikes, don’t have the cross drilling that standard jets have. This gives a sharper response from tickover as needed in trials riding. Used as original equipment on Triumph…

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Racing legend Giamoco Agostini A special event is being held in conjuntion with the 32nd Carole Nash International Classic Motorcycle Show at Stafford County Showground on April 28-29. An Audience with Agostini will be on the  Saturday, April 28, 8pm start, at the Tillington Hall Hotel, Stafford. Tickets for the evening include a buffet meal,…

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New York night watchman designed the Icycle Readers of The MotorCycle in February 1932 were invited to meet the Icycle designed by a night watchman in a New York skyscraper. The designer was not named anywhere in the newspiece but it was known that he had been on with this project for 12 years and…

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Learner practises The Get On motorbike and scooter campaign says students can save thousands of pounds and hundreds of hours every year by riding motorcycles rather than driving cars. Many students leaving home to go to university need some form of transport, and the Institute of Advanced Motorists’ figures show the first year on the…

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Luke Notton at the Bonhams British Historic Grand Prix Championship The series, for original specification Period 1 (up to 1964), Group 1 GP machines, will be run on Avon control 19in tyres and the Lansdowne organisers expect this should make this series even more competitive. BBHGP will run concurrently with the long running Lansdowne Cup…

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Bumpstop’s ground anchor What is it? It’s a ground anchor. No it’s not to stop the ground rolling away but more to stop someone rolling your motorcycle away along the ground. Like most great ideas, the ground anchor is remarkably simple and is effectively a tube that bolts to the ground. There are fixings supplied…

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Steve McQueen book The movie industry was a 20th century phenomenon, it didn’t exist before 1900 and by 2000 the concept had changed to video and DVD. In the golden period of the talkies – which has to be the late 1930s to mid-80s and I’ll argue the toss with anyone on that – there…

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Sanmmy Miller receives another award Sammy Miller received another honour recently – one to add to his MBE and hundreds of trials and race wins – when the AJS and Matchless OC made him an honorary member. Club PRO Roger Limb and club chairman Rob Swift went to the Sammy Miller museum at Bashley Manor,…

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