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ROCKET REBORN
First generation Rocket 3s in their factory finish are few and far between. So don’t just buy one: build it instead ‘! always wanted a Rocket 3,’ explained owner Tom as a crowd gathered around the TR3OC stand on the balcony at Stafford. The onlookers marvelled at the stunning condition of Tom’s triple, at its eye-catching…
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Suspension of disbelief
BMW’s 500 flat twin benefited from sophisticated suspension from the mid-1950s. But it only got the engine performance to match when the S models arrived in 1960… THE R50 AND its R69 sibling represent BMW’s postwar great leap forward. Prior to their introduction, the company muddled through with the rag-tag remainder of their prewar range.…
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Can-do classic
If life gives you lemons… build a brilliant bike and kick-start a new career, why don’t you? Two years ago, this glittering tribute to the craft of metal manipulation was little more than a basket case, a non-running junker imported from California. Twenty-two-year-old Mark Purslow figured that the 1978 Yamaha SR500 would make a great…
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Vintage and veteran
IN A LITTLE less than a calendar month, the Vintage Motor Cycle Club hosted both the ‘largest gathering of veteran and vintage machines in the world’ and their increasingly popular ‘training day’. Many riders may harbour a desire to ride a vintage or even a veteran motorcycle for the first time, and the club provides…
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Different strokes for 80s blokes
Current custodian Geoff Rogers is thrilled with the NS. He says it’s a keeper… You didn’t have to be completely mad to get the most from your Eighties two-stroke but it helped, and while I enjoyed virtually all that the Land of the Rising Sun had to offer, fear and cost kept my ambitions under…
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A new hope
Miles of smiles. What it is all about The British male in retirement has so often been typecast as a bit of on old duffer, whiling away time in a favourite armchair, sporting pipe and slippers. That, however, was not the future as envisaged by Dennis Hayball, who seems blessed with boundless energy as he…
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Something wicked
Conventional wisdom says that this is the one to have. The Jota 120. Manufactured for just two years from 1982. The Jota they should’ve built in the first place, six years earlier. ‘The Jota has been transformed from what many saw as a basically brutal, macho bag of old nails into a smooth, civilised, usable…
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Norton CEO discusses the future
Stuart Garner, a man with his own motorcycle factory. Who could ask for more? Well… read on Norton Motorcycles owner Stuart Garner, 47, is the man who bet big time on being able to revive Britain’s most sporting motorcycle brand as a series production entity – and he now looks set for the bet to…
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End of an era
The last of the long line. Nearly. The super-sports G85CS ran on for another year or so, but is one very different beast THE OLD COMPANY of Associated Motorcycles – AMC – was never exactly radical. It was a company which believed in gradual evolution, the theory that if you improve your bikes every year…
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Time machine
‘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 wasn’t simply the fastest thing to leave Small Heath’s production line. It was in fact the quickest standard motorcycle that…
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