STROLLING THROUGH the magazine section at ASDA, I was stopped in my tracks. I must have stepped through a black hole because I was suddenly 17 years old again. That’s some feat for a magazine.
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WORDS BY ROB DAVIES PHOTOS BY BARRY TAYLOR (OLD PRINTS), MODERN PICS FROM BARRY, ROB, AND ROBIN HORTON Fifty-one years and still going strong. The story of one man and his A65… BSA had the
Read moreDominating decades
Cliff Rees, born into a motorcycle family in 1938, Norton Dominator 88 purchased in 1959. He’s riding the same bike in 2016…you do the numbers!
Read moreHot 100: The Bonnie which blitzed the 1969 Production TT
Words by Frank Melling; Photos by Carol Melling/Mortons Archive IN 1958, MIKE HAILWOOD and Dan Shorey won the Thruxton long distance race and a year later the Thruxton Bonnevilles were born. Strictly speaking, the name Thruxton
Read moreThe real deal: Triumph’s best new Bonnie
WORDS & PHOTOS BY Frank Melling YOU’RE IN A rush, right? You want to go out for a ride, not read a magazine. I’ll come straight to the point. The Triumph Thruxton R is not
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EXCELLENT COLUMN in the June issue from Paul Miles. When her back was turned, I used to nick my better-half’s Harley Sportster at every opportunity. Yet I couldn’t part with my hard-earned dollars for one
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Immediately after the Second World War, and until engineer Charles Udall relaunched a new version of the 500 MSS, the 350 MAC was the only four-stroke roadster in the Velocette range. Then for 1954 the
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Laid out on a table in the dining room were the pieces of paper that told the life story of Neil Hinks’ Triumph Twenty-one. Not that he’d owned it from the very beginning, saving every
Read moreFork seal replacement
All that stands between a reasonably effective front suspension system and a badly handling motorcycle is a set of what used to be called garter seals. A pair of these seals – with their minuscule
Read moreContinental chic: Motó 6.5
What do you get when you cross a French designer with an Italian motorcycle manufacturer?
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