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FEBRUARY 2019
NEWS A BIT ON THE SIDE MADE IN JAPAN READERS’ LETTERS FROM THE ARCHIVE READERS’ TALES BOOK REVIEWS CLASSIC DIRT BIKE SHOW, TELFORD – PREVIEW SHOW REPORT CLUB CALL TRAVEL UNEARTHED FEEDBACK CLASSIFIED SERVICES GUIDE DIARY DATES
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EDITOR INtro
It was only a single day of being patient – in both senses of the word, being parked in a day ward awaiting surgery on my throttle hand’s damaged ligaments – but it was a day that resulted in a chance to catch up with some reading. Not of novels (although like many folk, I…
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Classic Bike Guide Winter Classic – Newark Showground
Keen to walk off the overindulgence of turkey sandwiches, turkey curry, bubble and squeak and mince pies, Dave Manning heads to Newark Showground for the Classic Bike Guide Winter Classic. The first weekend in January may seem like a somewhat inconvenient time of year to be running a motorcycle show, of any kind, but it…
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Telford Classic Dirt Bike Show
Welcome, dirt bike fans, to the annual Classic Dirt Bike Show, sponsored by Hagon Shocks. We would like to thank all the folk who turned out to support the show last year; once again it was the scene of much activity and merriment (particularly at the bar…) with special thanks to all those who turned…
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BSA Rocket 3
Imagine being the development manager at a maker of mobile phones in 2007. There you are, happily turning out straightforward push button phones by the shipload. Your customers can’t get enough of your designs – and then Apple introduces the Iphone and you suddenly discover your entire range is out of date. Words Oliver Hulme…
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Mix & match
In the motorcycle world there are any number of reasons to create a special with components from various sources. These reasons range from ‘couldn’t afford a catalogued machine’ to ‘the standard offerings weren’t right’ and often include ‘had a load of bits’ and ‘sheer bloody mindedness’ to give just four examples. Some such specials, or…
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The rise and fall of the Ariel Leader
One of the most sensational British motorcycles of the 1950s was the ground-breaking Ariel Leader designed by the legendary Val Page from a clean sheet – but sadly, times were changing too quickly for the good times to roll for long, writes Pete Kelly Last month Old Bike Mart raided Mortons’ vast motorcycling archive to…
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1969 Honda CB750/4
Four cylinder motorcycles were nothing new in 1969, but Steve Cooper shines a light on the one that made the biggest impact. If you have never sampled an early Honda CB750/4 I’d urge you to do so before they are all consigned to sterile museums or dark anonymous warehouses. No, we’re not talking about the…
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1938 Triumph Speed Twin
To celebrate the 80th anniversary of Edward Turner’s transformative ‘Speed Twin’, Triumph has re-introduced an updated version of its iconic motorcycle, but in a look back at the original, ground-breaking machine, David Curry takes a trip into the Mortons archive. When originally introduced in 1937, the Speed Twin received rave reviews from test riders, who…
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Stranger who became a pal
It was with great sadness that we learnt of the death of Les Hampton who passed away on October 5, 2018. A single man, he was a lifelong fan of Moto Guzzi motorcycles, and a former president of the Moto Guzzi Club GB. David Crawford relates how he got to know Les… From the mid-1970s, I’d…
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