Classic Bike Guide

April 2018

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Sam Hewitt

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29th March 2018

From the archive A collection of British bikes, in New York. BSA Super Rocket special CBG finds a BSA special and its wonderful owner, Ray Loxton. Subscribe! Get your favourite magazine delivered from just £20 for six months. Bargain! News John McGuinness riding a Norton at the TT and many other goings-on in our world.…
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Money is no object

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Sam Hewitt

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29th March 2018

Snow will be what we remember about last month… but the sun was shining on me as I got to ride a brand-new Norvin. The bike was a revelation to me. I suffered from total sensory overload – the sound, the attention to detail and the sheer riding experience blew me away. Okay, so it…
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Yamaha RD350

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Sam Hewitt

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28th March 2018

Yamaha probably didn’t have an inkling of what it had started at the end of the 1960s when it began drafting plans for a new range of two-stroke twins. 1967 had seen the company launch its first horizontally split crankcase twin with the 350 YR1. So successful was the bike that it formed the…
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MORE WHITE HELMETS TIGERS BREAK COVER

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Darren Hendley

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28th March 2018

IF YOU MISSED out on buying an ex-White Helmets Display Team Triumph Tiger at the recent sale of the team’s assets, do not despair. Bonhams sale on April 22 at Staffordshire County Showground will see five more of the L F Harris-built Tiger 750s go under the hammer. The sale will also see an ex-Edinburgh…
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Trophy for friends of Terriers and Cubs

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Darren Hendley

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21st March 2018

THE TRIUMPH TERRIER and Tiger Cub Club have inaugurated an award to be presented each year in perpetuity to an individual or organisation considered to have contributed most to the furtherance of the interests of owners, restoration of existing examples and the preservation of the marque in general. A trophy made and contributed by a…
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READ: British Bulldog Built By Fred, Not Bob

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Darren Hendley

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21st March 2018

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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Birmingham spares shop moves after 80 years

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Darren Hendley

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14th March 2018

MOTORCYCLE DEALERS AND one-time manufacturers Vale-Onslow have left the Sparkbrook premises in Birmingham that they occupied for more than 80 years, to move to a new location. Vale-Onslow had been a feature of Stratford Road in Sparkbrook since the 1930s and in British motorcycling’s 1960s hey-day the shop would see hordes of riders turn up…
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BSA A7

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Darren Hendley

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14th March 2018

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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Greeves Essex Twin

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Sam Hewitt

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8th March 2018

Welcome to a twin cylinder two-stroke…
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McGUINNESS TO RIDE FOR NORTON!

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Darren Hendley

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7th March 2018

ISLE OF MAN legend John McGuinness will campaign a Norton at this year’s TT. McGuinness will join Josh Brookes in the Superbike and Senior races on a factory V4 Aprilia-engined Norton racer, after years of riding for Honda. He suffered serious injuries in a crash during practice at the NW200 in 2017 and it was…
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