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Showing off
I’ve just rattled back from a show. Any excuse to slope out of the office while the magazine’s in the final few days of production. Rode up to Shropshire from Cornwall on the Saturday. It rained a lot. I can reveal that my new Bering jacket and less new Held overpants do not leak. Yet.…
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Good vibrations
STROLLING THROUGH the magazine section at ASDA, I was stopped in my tracks. I must have stepped through a black hole because I was suddenly 17 years old again. That’s some feat for a magazine. Some motorbikes thoroughly deserve to be reborn and the Métisse is certainly one of them. I doubt I’m representative of…
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MILES AHEAD
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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FRANK WESTWORTH ON POINTLESSNESS
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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No speedy twin
I COMPARED THE Triumph Speed Twin in the June issue of CBG with two photos of a machine my son-in-law bought. It seemed to be a similar machine apart from the engine, which is a sidevalve motor, the one in the magazine being ohv. Would this have been a sidecar machine or was it a…
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NO TIME LIKE SHOW TIME
A common grumble is that magazines like this one… okay, exactly this one… don’t carry enough technical stories. I never argue, not least because I always enjoy reading them. Another common grumble is that magazines like this one carry too many stories which are too technical. I never argue, because the skill levels of some…
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Mystery Solved
I’VE BEEN LOOKING at the mystery bike photo in April’s issue. Not very good is it? However, to me the bike is not a Cotton, but a New Imperial. You can clearly see the almost-meeting pushrod tubes of New Imperial’s distinctive own engine produced from 1926. If this bike did not have a high level…
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ISDT ’73
I really enjoyed your article and photos in CDB on the 1973 ISDT. It brought back many memories for me as I was there as a member of the RAF team alongside Jonathan Tye and Ashley Wirdnam. No doubt we are somewhere in the background at the time your photos were taken. I well remember…
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