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Ducati 900 SSD Darmah

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24th February 2023

“You won’t get me off an old bevel.” So says the owner of this rare example of when Ducati aimed its sights at a sports tourer. With help from the storeman raiding the 900SS and Darmah shelves, this is the result of the work…
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Two-Legged Trauma – Hutch's Workshop

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17th February 2023

A main stand gives up the ghost, leaving Hutch no choice but to get the heavy tools out. One removed broken stand By Hutch and Chelley After moving on a couple of bikes I wasn’t really attached to or riding (always a waste of valuable parking space, in my opinion), I ended up with…
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Intellectual Spannering – Hutch’s Workshop

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31st January 2023

Sometimes it isn’t having the right tools, but a logical mind working through the possibilities
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FROM THE ARCHIVE: The longest day

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26th July 2022

France’s Bol d’Or 24-hour race celebrates its centenary this year. Here, we have a brilliant action photograph from the 1924 edition, where solos and sidecars ran together. This rather remarkable action picture is taken from the June 19, 1924 edition of The Motor Cycle, the original caption reading thus: “One of the Rene Gillet drivers,…
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VIDEO: What Legal Problems Could You Face With Your Helmet?

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13th July 2022

MoreBikes has teamed up with our legal partners White Dalton to offer advice and examples of legal cases from scenarios us riders know only too well. A series designed to help you recognise the potential problems you may face and what you need to do in case the worst happens. Matt Hull, editor of Classic…
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VIDEO: Two Triumph Tiger 110s

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13th July 2022

Much wants more. The Americans demanded bigger engines than 500cc, so Triumph gave them the 650cc Thunderbird… but even that didn’t satisfy them for long, so the stakes were upped with the launch of the Tiger 110. Nigel C. takes a look at one of the earliest and one of the last.
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Your guide to…Yamaha TX750

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7th March 2022

Yamaha were not following the herd back in the early 1970s. When some of their rivals were frantically developing sporty fours to replace their smoky, thirsty two-strokes, Yamaha went in a different direction technologically. It was a bit of a blind alley, but they were at least ploughing their own furrow. And that’s enough mixing…
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Road Test: BSA Spitfire

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30th November 2014

BSA Spitfire Scrambler In this old motorcycle game of ours, fate can sometimes play a decent hand by laying in front of us a certain path, which eventually results in a machine that originally was not quite what we had planned. Take Dave Dawson’s Spitfire Scrambler, for example; it actually began life courtesy of a…
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Road Test: BSA Spitfire

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30th November 2014

BSA Spitfire Scrambler In this old motorcycle game of ours, fate can sometimes play a decent hand by laying in front of us a certain path, which eventually results in a machine that originally was not quite what we had planned. Take Dave Dawson’s Spitfire Scrambler, for example; it actually began life courtesy of a…
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