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Road Test: Norton military prototype

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2nd August 2013

Norton military prototype motorcycle Simple fact of life: motorcycle makers need to move bikes through production, out of the despatch department and on to customers who will pay for them. If they offer a wide range of bikes in various colours, the process becomes more complicated and the possible pitfalls are greater, so a production…
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Road Test: Norton military prototype

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2nd August 2013

Norton military prototype motorcycle Simple fact of life: motorcycle makers need to move bikes through production, out of the despatch department and on to customers who will pay for them. If they offer a wide range of bikes in various colours, the process becomes more complicated and the possible pitfalls are greater, so a production…
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Road Test: Norton military prototype

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Classic Bike Hub UK

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2nd August 2013

Norton military prototype motorcycle Simple fact of life: motorcycle makers need to move bikes through production, out of the despatch department and on to customers who will pay for them. If they offer a wide range of bikes in various colours, the process becomes more complicated and the possible pitfalls are greater, so a production…
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Reference: The Grigg side-valve V-twin – August 1923

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29th July 2013

This photo is from the Mortons Archive Eight different capacity engines were on offer: 247cc (67mm bore x 70mm stroke), 349cc (67 x 99), 494cc (80 x 99), single cylinders and 494cc (67 x 70), 698cc (67 x 99), 998cc (80 x 99) V-twin air-cooled engines. Plus the water-cooled 550cc single and 1100cc V-twin (both…
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Reference: The Grigg side-valve V-twin – August 1923

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29th July 2013

This photo is from the Mortons Archive Eight different capacity engines were on offer: 247cc (67mm bore x 70mm stroke), 349cc (67 x 99), 494cc (80 x 99), single cylinders and 494cc (67 x 70), 698cc (67 x 99), 998cc (80 x 99) V-twin air-cooled engines. Plus the water-cooled 550cc single and 1100cc V-twin (both…
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August Classic Bike Guide on sale!

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25th July 2013

New Classic Bike Guide on sale! • Editor's intro Gary Pinchin sets the scene LIVE2RIDE • Land Speed Pendine Record attempts on the Welsh sand • Newark Showground McGuinness headlines Mortons’ new show • Brooklands Ton-up day at the famous old racing circuit • Watsonian A great day at the home of British sidecars •…
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Douglas Special

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25th July 2013

A 1931 596cc overhead valve twin formed the basis for this well-engineered sidecar outfit Mills wrote: “In the motor cycle movement this is a sprinkling of enthusaists who derive almost as much pleasure from building machines as they do from riding them… and they are not happy unless able to ride something that is distinctly,…
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Ace Triton and cafe racer day

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24th July 2013

The place oozes 1960s rock and roll and on a hot, sunny day, the car park full of bikes with alloy tanks, single seats, clip-ons and rear-sets, you feel transported back in time to another era. The Ace is as it always was; a place to hang out, drink tea, eat bacon sarnies and wallow…
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Road Test: Sunbeam S7

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18th July 2013

Sunbeam S7 500cc The shaft-drive Sunbeam twins don’t sit easily with the ruffty tufty vision of 50s motorcycling, when young men supposedly roared across the countryside on Norton Inters, Triumph Thunderbirds and BSA Gold Stars with not a care, or a speed limit in the world of the open road. The rose-tinted spectacles of hindsight…
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Road Test: Sunbeam S7

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18th July 2013

Sunbeam S7 500cc The shaft-drive Sunbeam twins don’t sit easily with the ruffty tufty vision of 50s motorcycling, when young men supposedly roared across the countryside on Norton Inters, Triumph Thunderbirds and BSA Gold Stars with not a care, or a speed limit in the world of the open road. The rose-tinted spectacles of hindsight…
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