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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 a Triton are felt through the seat of the pants. The road meanders through mile after mile of lush green…
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BSA Unit Singles: Much of a good thing…
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 that their performance was adequate for the urban and country roads of the time, but would be rather lacking on…
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Back To Life
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 say that the Trident – the last big throw of the dice from the British Motorcycle manufacturer NVT (Norton Villiers…
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Back To Life
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 Villiers Triumph) – was too little, too late. The production figures tell their own story. The total number of bikes…
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BSA UNIT SINGLES: Much of a good thing…
‘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 to say that their performance was adequate for the urban and country roads of the time, but would be rather…
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AMERICAN TRITON
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 pants. The road meanders through mile after mile of lush green countryside. The speed limit sign is only a suggestion…
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The Dinky Dommi
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 monstrous mistake. However, you’d have to say that the unit construction 250 Jubilee was far from his finest hour. It…
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Sturdy single
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, they’d finally been discontinued. CONSIDERING A CLASSIC? Perhaps you’re about to buy your first old Britbike, or are seeking to…
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Trend setter
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 is the most over-rated motorcycle in the world. Certainly, there are other bikes built in the 1930s that surpass it…
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Henry's Cat
Back in the 1960s, lightweight two-strokes, which the British motorcycle industry had produced in droves, were virtually a throw-away item. Not that anybody actually threw anything away in those days, it somehow went against the grain of generations of make-do-and menders. But there was a point when a worn-out machine, especially an ever so humble…
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