Sarah Wilkinson

MILES AHEAD

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Sarah Wilkinson

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31st August 2016

EXCELLENT COLUMN in the June issue from Paul Miles. When her back was turned, I used to nick my better-half’s Harley Sportster at every opportunity. Yet I couldn’t part with my hard-earned dollars for one of my own. Much later when rumbling around the Pyrenees I regularly swapped my Hinckley Bonnie for a ‘fix’ on…
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Tour or track

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Sarah Wilkinson

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31st August 2016

Immediately after the Second World War, and until engineer Charles Udall relaunched a new version of the 500 MSS, the 350 MAC was the only four-stroke roadster in the Velocette range. Then for 1954 the MSS reappeared with a redesigned ‘square’ engine of 86mm by 86mm, and this 499cc motor would go on to power…
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Sweet twin

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Sarah Wilkinson

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31st August 2016

Laid out on a table in the dining room were the pieces of paper that told the life story of Neil Hinks’ Triumph Twenty-one. Not that he’d owned it from the very beginning, saving every document and scrap of a receipt over the years, together with lists of things to do, service and repair. Far…
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Fork seal replacement

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Sarah Wilkinson

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31st August 2016

All that stands between a reasonably effective front suspension system and a badly handling motorcycle is a set of what used to be called garter seals. A pair of these seals – with their minuscule surface areas – amazingly holds in the fork oil that damps out the vagaries of Her Majesty’s highways. If you’ve…
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Continental chic: Motó 6.5

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Sarah Wilkinson

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31st August 2016

What do you get when you cross a French designer with an Italian motorcycle manufacturer?
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Beezer’s ‘Trophy’

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Sarah Wilkinson

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31st August 2016

We should tread carefully with this story, because it’s all about a man renowned for some stunning restorations who also enjoys taking a gentle rise out of folks who would have you believe they possess great knowledge. If you called such a chap an expert, he’d probably blush slightly and bow his head in false…
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FRANK WESTWORTH ON POINTLESSNESS

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Sarah Wilkinson

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31st August 2016

It went like THIS: charge battery (I’ve done this before, see); check for fuel (always helps); free the clutch (it’s a Triumph), switch on and kick. There you have it, a simple routine for starting an old Brit bike which hasn’t run for a little while. They’re mostly the same, bikes from the 1945 –…
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