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
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Author: Sam Hewitt
Sam Hewitt is the Digital Content Editor at Mortons Media Group.
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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
Read moreGo 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
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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
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Radical engineering met radical style in 1930s Germany. And handsome is as handsome does… WORDS BY Alan Cathcart PHOTOS BY Kyoichi Nakamura SINCE IT EMIGRATED to China back in 1984, Zündapp has become the forgotten
Read moreMahindra buys BSA… … and signs a deal to use the Jawa name
WORDS BY ALAN CATHCART PHOTOS BY ALAN CATHCART, ARCHIVE The ongoing revival of Britain’s historic motorcycle brands has saved the biggest and in some ways the best until last, with the news that the rights
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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
Read moreCENTENARY CELEBRATION
ZÜNDAPP WAS FOUNDED in 1917 and the marque’s 100th birthday is being celebrated at the Bremen Classic Motorshow in February next year. The show incorporates a special ‘From Everyman To World Champion’ display of 20
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A little tidying goes a long way towards restoring a classic Triumph to its rightful glory WORDS & PHOTOS BY ROB DAVIES The Thunderbird title has been used on several Triumph motorcycles since 1949. The
Read moreVillage Square
In the age of the sporting single, Ariel gave us a gentleman’s four A village emerges as you roll back into England, crossing a border to leave a land where familiar roadsigns were suddenly bilingual.
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