Sam Hewitt

1980 Moto Guzzi V50 MK2

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Sam Hewitt

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4th April 2018

I bought my first Moto Guzzi V50 in 1989, from a bloke who kept it in a lock-up off a dark, dank alleyway in the backstreets of Croydon.
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GO NORTH FOR A CLASSIC TRIP

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Sam Hewitt

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1st April 2018

THE BRITISH ISLES’ most northerly classic vehicle show is coming. The Shetland Classic Motor Show is a biannual event and is held this year on June 2/3, with other classic events taking place around the show date. Shetland has an ever-growing number of classic vehicles, collected and lovingly restored by their enthusiastic owners. The results…
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April 2018

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Sam Hewitt

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29th March 2018

From the archive A collection of British bikes, in New York. BSA Super Rocket special CBG finds a BSA special and its wonderful owner, Ray Loxton. Subscribe! Get your favourite magazine delivered from just £20 for six months. Bargain! News John McGuinness riding a Norton at the TT and many other goings-on in our world.…
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Money is no object

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Sam Hewitt

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29th March 2018

Snow will be what we remember about last month… but the sun was shining on me as I got to ride a brand-new Norvin. The bike was a revelation to me. I suffered from total sensory overload – the sound, the attention to detail and the sheer riding experience blew me away. Okay, so it…
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Yamaha RD350

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Sam Hewitt

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28th March 2018

Yamaha probably didn’t have an inkling of what it had started at the end of the 1960s when it began drafting plans for a new range of two-stroke twins. 1967 had seen the company launch its first horizontally split crankcase twin with the 350 YR1. So successful was the bike that it formed the…
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Greeves Essex Twin

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Sam Hewitt

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8th March 2018

Welcome to a twin cylinder two-stroke…
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Levis returns with a ground-breaking V6

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Sam Hewitt

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21st February 2018

ANOTHER LONG DORMANT British motorcycle name is rising from the ashes. Levis, which built a range of lightweight sporty two- and four-strokes in the years up until the Second World War, has returned as the brand name for a new range of motorcycles with an all-British modular engine concept. The new Levis motorcycle is based…
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Interceptor’s new look shines

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Sam Hewitt

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21st February 2018

AS THE MOTORCYCLING world waits for the first appearance of the new Royal Enfield and Constellation 650 twins in the showrooms, the company has quietly slipped out another livery for the model, and it harks back to the company’s late 1960s heyday. The Interceptor is now being offered in a chrome petrol tank finish, similar…
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Royal Enfield and the Interceptor Mk2

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Sam Hewitt

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21st February 2018

Words and photography Phil Mather If anybody were ever to compile ‘The Bedtime Storybook of the English Motorcycle’ it would be sure to contain a chapter entitled ‘The Sad Tale of the Enfield Interceptor’. It may be that you are puzzled as to why that should be; in all fairness, you could be forgiven if…
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Buying guide: Triumph 5TA Speed Twin

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Sam Hewitt

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21st February 2018

A great unit-construction engine in a frame derived from the Cub made the Speed Twin an exciting ride. And as for the enclosed bodywork… Words by Oliver Hulme THE ORIGINAL TRIUMPH Speed Twin of 1937 broke all kinds of moulds. There had been parallel twins before it, not least Val Page’s Triumph 6/1, but never…
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