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Ducatis are a hit
Recently I was at Newcastle airport in a magazine shop searching for a good read for my flight back home to Hamburg. What I saw I did not expect – I found your good Classic Bike Guide, with the 30 years of the Desmoquattro report, which I read with high interest. Brilliant. I’ve been waiting…
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Classic Bikes, modern times
Before the interweb, dreams couldn’t be realised quite so easily. When I started riding, my evening ‘blast’ (as much as you can on a Suzuki ZR50, albeit with a slightly tired 80cc big-bore) would take me down the B-road, via potholes, roadkill and farm detritus to the small town of Wymondham, Norfolk. Wymondham (pronounced…
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CAUTION WHEN MEETING HEROES
There was much of interest in August’s issue of the ‘Guide‘. I was particularly interested in Paul Miles’ encounter with that well known prewar V-Twin. I too was lucky (unlucky?) to sample the delights of one of these machines. Let’s call it a Brough Superior (sic). Barely a couple of minutes into the ride…
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Age knows no barrier
As you may have read last month, Frank Westworth has now stepped away from creating Classic Bike Guide. Rumours that decades of perfecting the skill of kicking over his trusty steeds taking its toll, are greatly exaggerated. But fear not, our Frank will still be contributing to CBG every month with his always entertaining…
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Three cylinders good
FRANK MELLING’S VIEWS were definitely a different slant on the 750 BSA-Triumph triple and, while thought provoking and informative, the article was also bizarrely negative. The collapse of the British bike industry is tragic and well documented. To suggest that the Rocket 3 / Trident should shoulder some of the blame is certainly controversial. I…
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Moving on
MINOR ODDITIES TIME here. I know you’ll enjoy this. Guy I know has been rebuilding his not particularly elderly Brit bike since the dawn of time. It’s more of an obsession than a hobby, and certainly more serious than a pastime. I’d dropped by for a free coffee and to offer yet more of the…
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One man’s mate
PART OF THE endless entertainment of a magazine editor’s life is the steady drizzle of complaints. No no; this is not a plea for sympathy – this particular editor enjoys all comment, whether it’s positive and agreeable or the other thing. To provide a little perspective, on CBG there are maybe ten positives to every…
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One man’s ceiling
ONE OF THE more entertaining parts of this strange job is the annual ritual of working out fresh prices for the guides. I say it’s entertaining – which it is, in a peculiar anorak nonsensical kind of way – but it’s also an endless puzzle. As well as the ‘Who’d ever pay that much for…
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Vee time too
ALL OF A SUDDEN – and it always somehow comes as a complete surprise – the clocks spring forward and winter’s gone. You can perform physics as well as I can, and we both know that the clock shift has no effect on the weather. Come along now, it can’t. But it does. No sooner…
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SPECIAL K
I BOUGHT CBG specifically for the article on the BMW R90 special. I was a little disappointed to see how inaccurately the machine was described with K1100 front and rear ends. I would suggest that they are in fact from an early K100 with later model wheels. K1100s have paralever rear ends and the front…
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