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  Yamaha probably didn’t have an inkling of what it had started at the end of the 1960s when it began drafting plans for a new range of two-stroke twins. 1967 had seen the company

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Nowadays the term ‘Bobber’ has become as ubiquitous as café racer or street tracker, with manufacturers jumping on a potentially profitable bandwagon.

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Words and pictures by Oliver Hulme “A SPORTS MACHINE in the true tradition…the Star Twin has few equals as a machine for sustained high-speed road work”. So said The Motor Cycle in April 1952, reviewing

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From Autobahns to wee twisties, this tolerant twin is tremendous fun and often recommended as a good choice for a first British bike!

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Words by Oliver Hulme Photography by Jason Bryant AS DUSK FALLS on a farmyard somewhere in the south west of England, Ray Loxton is tinkering with the oil pump on his pre-unit Triumph Bonneville. “I’m

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Words and photography Phil Mather If anybody were ever to compile ‘The Bedtime Storybook of the English Motorcycle’ it would be sure to contain a chapter entitled ‘The Sad Tale of the Enfield Interceptor’. It

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A great unit-construction engine in a frame derived from the Cub made the Speed Twin an exciting ride. And as for the enclosed bodywork… Words by Oliver Hulme THE ORIGINAL TRIUMPH Speed Twin of 1937

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This US-only Honda 350 may not be great off-road, but it’s good-looking, reliable and costs a fraction of an equivalent British scrambler Words by Oliver Hulme BETWEEN 1968 and 1973 Honda sold more 350 four-stroke

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Whether it’s eating roasted chestnuts on the bridge by Notre Dame Cathedral or seeing the Mona Lisa in the Louvre, there are lots of reasons to visit Paris in late November. But for the last

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