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Italian classics for sale “The owner lives in a mansion on the shores of Lake Como, “explains Stuart. “He’s 95 years old and a lifelong friend of the Guzzi family, but had decided to sell the bikes while still able to do so. But he didn’t want to sell them individually and didn’t want lots…

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CBG goes digital Before you scoff at such high faluted techno wizardry, there are three important things you should know. CBG on the ipad is slightly cheaper than the printed edition, getting it digitally means foreign readers get it on the day it comes out instead of six weeks afterwards and, the tablet’s HD screen…

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October issue of Classic Bike Guide on sale now! • Archive The birth of the adventure bike • News Stafford preview, new classics and more • Dealer special Military spec Royal Enfield • Mould Breaker: Triumph’s 1949 Trophy 5T Triumph’s new-for-2012 Trophy is a heavyweight, full-dress tourer. But the original bike to bear the name…

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Enfield carb conversion available Hitchcock’s Motorcycles in Solihull has developed a carb conversion for fuel injected Royal Enfields. Aimed at owners wanting to fit a less restrictive exhaust or other tuning parts where they need to adjust the fuelling to suit. The kit contains everything you need to do the conversion including all the wiring,…

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Atmospheric film worth watching They pack in thousands of miles but are often not more than 150 miles from home – what’s more they do it primarily on new Bonneville based Triumphs. The bikes are nicely customised cafe racer cum desert racers, not your archetypal highway cruisers, and their chosen routes are those desert roads…

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New outfit on display soon The black Bullet and Watsonian GP Manx sidecar have taken Barbour’s International Original A7 jacket, as worn by Steve McQueen in the 1964 ISDT, as inspiration, incorporating the black and gold of the Barbour International logo, Barbour’s modern tartan, grey cord and zip pulls based on the original A7 jacket.…

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New, more stringent, MoT on horizon The proposed EU Regulation on ‘Road Worthiness Testing’ (RWT) suggests that noise levels will be tested with a meter, pollution tested with a gas analyser and compliance with EU Type-Approval to be checked looking for things like ‘illegal power-train modification’ which in practice means race exhausts, hot cams, bigger…

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Why have two wheels when you can have one? Parisian engineer Erich Edison-Puton thought exactly that in 1910, and his solution was to put the rider and the engine inside a single 2m diameter wheel. He built a rather ugly frame out of steel tubing and flat sheeting, and then took a 3.5bhp, 150cc De…

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September’s CBG on sale now News Chrome banned, L-plate Broughs, new MoT on the way On the Road Aberdare, Chesterfield, Barton, Skipton and chopper speedway Mould Breaker: Yamaha AS1 The Japanese manufacturers (and Yamaha in particular) have a long history of building fast and sporty learner-legal motorcycles. Yamaha’s AS1 was the first. Bye bye Bantam?…

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