Classic Bike Guide

1973 Triumph Tiger 750

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Darren Hendley

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7th March 2018

From Autobahns to wee twisties, this tolerant twin is tremendous fun and often recommended as a good choice for a first British bike!
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Early Honda could break record

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Darren Hendley

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3rd March 2018

AN HISTORICALLY IMPORTANT Honda CB750 is up for grabs at the H&H Classics auction on March 4, at the National Motorcycle Museum. A late pre-production model, it is one of only four built, only two are known to still exist. Although it is estimated at £35,000-£40,000, the other machine sold for £88,900 in 2014. H&H…
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BSA Super Rocket Special

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Darren Hendley

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1st March 2018

Words by Oliver Hulme Photography by Jason Bryant AS DUSK FALLS on a farmyard somewhere in the south west of England, Ray Loxton is tinkering with the oil pump on his pre-unit Triumph Bonneville. “I’m not getting the pressure through, brother.” Ray calls everybody brother. “It should be coming through the end of the crankshaft,…
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March 2018

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Darren Hendley

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28th February 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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Silver’s ship comes in

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Darren Hendley

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28th February 2018

CLASSIC HONDA SPECIALISTS David Silver have welcomed the arrival of their latest container load of vintage Japanese classics from the USA. The container came packed with more than 50 bikes, ranging from a selection of 50cc Monkey Bikes to classic Honda 750s. Prime buys included a Honda CB400F with less than 10,000 miles on the…
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Winter wonderings

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Darren Hendley

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28th February 2018

I’ve been chatting with friends who’ve ridden the latest phenomenon, Ducati’s Panigale V4. Phrases ‘game changer’ and ‘revolutionary’ were banded around. It’s not ‘just’ the 214bhp (in standard, warranty-friendly road trim) V4 MotoGP inspired engine. Hardened racers talked of the near-perfect balance, the counter-rotating crank and one ex-Superbike racer said “It’s the only bike with…
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Levis returns with a ground-breaking V6

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Sam Hewitt

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21st February 2018

ANOTHER LONG DORMANT British motorcycle name is rising from the ashes. Levis, which built a range of lightweight sporty two- and four-strokes in the years up until the Second World War, has returned as the brand name for a new range of motorcycles with an all-British modular engine concept. The new Levis motorcycle is based…
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Interceptor’s new look shines

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Sam Hewitt

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21st February 2018

AS THE MOTORCYCLING world waits for the first appearance of the new Royal Enfield and Constellation 650 twins in the showrooms, the company has quietly slipped out another livery for the model, and it harks back to the company’s late 1960s heyday. The Interceptor is now being offered in a chrome petrol tank finish, similar…
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Royal Enfield and the Interceptor Mk2

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Sam Hewitt

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21st February 2018

Words and photography Phil Mather If anybody were ever to compile ‘The Bedtime Storybook of the English Motorcycle’ it would be sure to contain a chapter entitled ‘The Sad Tale of the Enfield Interceptor’. It may be that you are puzzled as to why that should be; in all fairness, you could be forgiven if…
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Buying guide: Triumph 5TA Speed Twin

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Sam Hewitt

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21st February 2018

A great unit-construction engine in a frame derived from the Cub made the Speed Twin an exciting ride. And as for the enclosed bodywork… Words by Oliver Hulme THE ORIGINAL TRIUMPH Speed Twin of 1937 broke all kinds of moulds. There had been parallel twins before it, not least Val Page’s Triumph 6/1, but never…
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