Sam Hewitt
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Questions of taste
Here’s a simple question for you. Are you a crazy customiser or are you a stock bike stalwart? I bet you’re neither. I bet that you’re somewhere between the two and that exactly where on the dotted line between custom and stock you’d place yourself depends on the bike in question … and on many…
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Triple treat
The electric-start Triumph Trident offers classic riders a wail of a time WORDS & PHOTOS BY Chris Rooke SEVEN YEARS AFTER the first Triumph T150 triple was launched, its upgraded successor, the T160, came onto the scene. The British bike industry was on life support but somehow Norton-Villiers-Triumph had made more than 200 improvements to…
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Kickback Olympia
A VAST ARRAY of custom crafted motorcycles were displayed at Kickback London last autumn. Whatever your preference to style, there was something there to catch the eye and boggle the mind. The loft at Olympia Central showcased 60 hand-crafted masterpieces alongside 80 rare classics, customs and dealer specials, while live music and an art gallery…
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CBG Winter Classic
About to enter into its sixth year, the Carole Nash Winter Classic event – supported by CBG – has become one of the favourite dates on the show calendar WORDS AND PHOTOS BY JACK HARRISON IT’S THE SHOW that celebrates all makes, models and eras of the classic scene, and there will once again be…
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Bikes in Brum
WORDS & PHOTOS by Richard Jones THE AUTUMN SHOW season features not one but two events which showcase iconic bikes at the NEC, Birmingham, and few people have the stamina or spending power to attend both. If you survive the shock of the parking charge and then the admission fees, the cost of a coffee…
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Letters: T’BIRD TRIBULATIONS
I NOTED WITH interest an article on the Triumph Thunderbird in the December issue; the model John Bloor and his merry band of horribly successful engineers turned out in the 1990s. I have a 1994 Trident which has clocked up an astonishing 140,000 miles under my stewardship, and I like to read about stuff I…
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Make me a Manx
Start with a fairly clean sheet of paper and build a Manx Norton from scratch. The result might look a little like this. WORDS BY Frank Melling PHOTOS BY Carol Melling, Mortons archive Sitting in the pits, watching the classic racers fly by, there’s plenty of opportunity to talk about what might have been and…
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Go for it!
For adventure, that is. The first Triumph to carry the name Adventurer was a light 500 twin, good for pretty much anything adventurous… PHOTOS BY CHRIS DICKINSON, CHRIS SPAETT WORDS BY FRANK WESTWORTH A minor puzzle in the classic motorcycling world – at least for yrstrly – has been the popularity of Triumph’s twin engines…
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Revisionism
A recent chance remark from a guitar-playing maniac and friend made me laugh out loud. But only briefly, because what he’d intended as a joke might not have been. My friend is no motorcyclist, perhaps wisely, but he is one mean guitarist – although I would never admit it – and he knows lots and…
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Stafford show
WORDS & PHOTOS BY Morgan Rue, Rowena Hoseason UNDOUBTEDLY THE MECCA for classic motorcycles, Stafford hosts two world-class shows in April and October. The autumn Carole Nash Mechanics Show leans more towards later classics, showcasing some of the best vintage Oriental machinery around, but there was plenty to please all tastes with machines dating back…
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