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  • Buying Guide: BMW singles

    Buying Guide: BMW singles

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    BMW R27, the final shaft drive single After 80 years of flat twins, it's easy to forget that the famous spinning propeller badge has also been attached to plenty of machines with a single, vertical cylinder. In fact, BMW's first ever two-wheeler, released after WWI, when the company was forbidden from making any more aeroplanes…

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  • Buying Guide: BMW singles

    Buying Guide: BMW singles

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    BMW R27, the final shaft drive single After 80 years of flat twins, it's easy to forget that the famous spinning propeller badge has also been attached to plenty of machines with a single, vertical cylinder. In fact, BMW's first ever two-wheeler, released after WWI, when the company was forbidden from making any more aeroplanes…

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  • A scintillating single

    A scintillating single

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    1959 Velocette Venom The first roadtest reported that it matched “scintillating open-road performance with unobtrusive city behaviour… combining a super-sports performance, docility, exhaust and mechanical quietness and ease of control”. And this particularly delicious 1959 Venom could be yours – for a quid! It’s the top prize in the VMCC’s summer raffle. Tickets are available…

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  • Road Test: Triumph Hurricane X-75

    Road Test: Triumph Hurricane X-75

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    Triumph Hurricane X75 I dare bet that the X-75 could only have originated in the USA, as I doubt the bean-counters of the top-heavy home industry were in tune with the motorcycling public to recognise a chance to sell bikes. In fact, I seem to recall in the early days of my motorcycling Edward Turner,…

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  • Road Test: Triumph Hurricane X-75

    Road Test: Triumph Hurricane X-75

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    Triumph Hurricane X75 I dare bet that the X-75 could only have originated in the USA, as I doubt the bean-counters of the top-heavy home industry were in tune with the motorcycling public to recognise a chance to sell bikes. In fact, I seem to recall in the early days of my motorcycling Edward Turner,…

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  • Race stars at Telford

    Race stars at Telford

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    John McGuinness will be there The ‘Morecombe Missile’ John McGuiness is the Show’s star guest. 19 times a TT winner, McGuinness isn’t just hot stuff on the tarmac. He regularly rides on the dirt to keep fit in the winter and is keen to look around the off-road side of the Show. On the sidecar…

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  • Classic Bike Guide on sale!

    Classic Bike Guide on sale!

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    Classic Bike Guide on sale • Intro Acting Ed's intro • Triumph Speedmaster The most popular of the current Triumph twins is the Touring Speedmaster. Norman Hyde has developed the original a little further; Alan Cathcart rode the result; the Hyde Speedmaster TC • Letters Tell us more of what you think… of bikes, life…

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  • Buying Guide: Honda CX500

    Buying Guide: Honda CX500

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    Honda CX500, loved and loathed in equal manner Say what you like about Honda, but it does things its own way and generally gets the end result pretty close to perfect. Occasionally it’s the first iterations of a bike that go a little awry, maybe when some senior middle manager allows newly qualified numpty engineers…

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  • Buying Guide: Honda CX500

    Buying Guide: Honda CX500

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    Honda CX500, loved and loathed in equal manner Say what you like about Honda, but it does things its own way and generally gets the end result pretty close to perfect. Occasionally it’s the first iterations of a bike that go a little awry, maybe when some senior middle manager allows newly qualified numpty engineers…

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  • One shock or two

    One shock or two

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    Ramshox offer rebuildable dampers Enter Ramshox – who as Realm Engineering has over 35 years of experience in the sports automotive industry, and which proved the perfect springboard to develop motorcycle suspension. Ramshox started offering bike suspension components four years ago, and rapidly established itself as a class-leader in its sector using aircraft-spec alloy bodies,…

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