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Category: Features

The underdog

30th November 2016 Sam Hewitt Features, News

Greyhounds are great, but most folk get on better with a border collie Photos by Chris Dickinson DESPITE THE DOMINATOR name, Norton’s first stab at a sporting twin didn’t exactly rule the postwar world. Designer

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Captain sensible

30th November 2016 Sam Hewitt Features, News

If a radical retro café racer is too compact for comfort, Ducati built a more relaxed SportClassic for two-up touring… WORDS BY Frank Melling   PHOTOS BY Carol Melling UCATI’S FIRST STAB at a mainstream retro

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Halfway house: The big Bonnie neatly spans the gap between modern and classic

30th November 2016 Sam Hewitt Features, News

PHOTOS BY Chris Dickinson CONTINUING OUR THEME, Triumph’s 750 twins are an obvious choice for anyone contemplating the purchase of a first British classic bike. They don’t cost a fortune compared to the more prestigious

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The Chiefs from Redditch

31st October 2016 Sam Hewitt Features, News

Too often overlooked in classic curiosity corner, Indian’s last Chiefs were excellent – and unique – motorcycles WORDS AND PHOTOS BY PHIL MATHER Isolated on our little island, we had no reason to concern ourselves

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Mashing it up

31st October 2016 Sam Hewitt Features, News

Two new, French-designed retros prove that Chinese bikes are coming of age WORDS BY MARK WILLIAMS Having already proved that they could up the stakes in the Chinese import game, Mash Motorcycles have added two

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Featherbed cafe racer: Trad Triton

31st October 2016 Sam Hewitt Features, News

  Modern technology offers many different ways to build a cracking café racer, but it’s hard to beat the original combination of a Meriden motor and Featherbed frame… WORDS & PHOTOS BY Stuart Urquhart Dave

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Top honours

31st October 2016 Sam Hewitt Features, News

Triumph took three gold medals and the team trophy in the 1948 ISDT, and launched a legend WORDS BY Frank Melling: PHOTOS BY Carol Melling WHEN THIS TR5 was built in 1956, a visitor to

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Belting along

31st October 2016 Sam Hewitt Features, News

When Fabio Taglioni ditched Ducati’s bevel drive, he took a big risk. Four decades later, it’s still paying dividends WORDS & PHOTOS BY Richard Jones “LOOK ON MY WORKS, Ye Mighty Motorcyclists, and Marvel!” is

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Self starter

31st October 2016 Sam Hewitt Features, News

Gentlemen, start your engines! In your own time. Any day now… PHOTOS BY Chris Dickinson AS WE NEVER tire of telling you, the Norton Commando was awarded the UK’s ‘Machine of the Year’ accolade five

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It is a star

7th October 2016 Sam Hewitt Features, News

WORDS BY ROB DAVIES PHOTOS BY BARRY TAYLOR (OLD PRINTS), MODERN PICS FROM BARRY, ROB, AND ROBIN HORTON Fifty-one years and still going strong. The story of one man and his A65… BSA had the

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