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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 the latest example of the BSA A7. It is fair to say that The Motor Cycle liked the A7, praising…

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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 not getting the pressure through, brother.” Ray calls everybody brother. “It should be coming through the end of the crankshaft,…

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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 may be that you are puzzled as to why that should be; in all fairness, you could be forgiven if…

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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 broke all kinds of moulds. There had been parallel twins before it, not least Val Page’s Triumph 6/1, but never…

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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 twins than the British motorcycle industry’s entire production over the same period and a third of those sales were of…

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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 20 years classic bike enthusiasts have been making their winter pilgrimage to the city of love for only one reason.…

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While most of our bikes are safely tucked away, we trawled through the archives to find some braver (or crazier) souls from days gone by… For more great archive images see the February issue of CBG – on sale now!

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