‘The most exciting super-equipped road and road-racing model offered in America!’ blared the brochure. Just for once, they weren’t over-stating things: 123mph from 654cc WHEN BSA BUILT the Mk2 Spitfire in 1966, the 654cc twin
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American Triton
Yankee cafay. Too strong a brew for British taste? Out for a sunny Sunday morning ride on a snooker-table smooth back road, lined with hedges, stone walls and barbed wire fences, the characteristics that define
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TRADING POST: MODEL HISTORY BSA SOLD A VAST number of ride-to-work utility motorcycles. Most of these were of relatively low capacity, sturdily built and ideal for their intended commuter role. That is actually to say
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Loads of ancient Brits have returned from overseas, ripe for a rebuild. This T160 Trident was an easy job A cleaned wiring loom, now re-wrapped, and new HT leads Produced between 1968 and 1975, some
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A cleaned wiring loom, now re-wrapped, and new HT leads Produced between 1968 and 1975, some say that the Trident – the last big throw of the dice from the British Motorcycle manufacturer NVT (Norton
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‘Several species of small furry animals…’ BSA SOLD A VAST number of ride-to-work utility motorcycles. Most of these were of relatively low capacity, sturdily built and ideal for their intended commuter role. That is actually
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Out for a sunny Sunday morning ride on a snooker-table smooth back road, lined with hedges, stone walls and barbed wire fences, the characteristics that define a Triton are felt through the seat of the
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Fowl play! Add your own ‘Not a Bantam in sight’ joke here. The Navigator; an affordable Norton. IN HIS LONG career at the core of the original Britbike industry, designer Bert Hopwood rarely made a
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The archetypal mid-1950s English all-rounder. After the swinging arm model was introduced in 1954, production of both rigid and plunger versions continued for a couple of years, but by 1956, when this bike was built,
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Edward Turner’s first triumph of style over substance: the 5T twin uses the single’s chassis, which was hard-pushed already by the performance of the Tiger 90… CRITICS OF THE Speed Twin justifiably argue that it
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