Classic Bike Guide

MILES AHEAD

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Sarah Wilkinson

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31st August 2016

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 of my own. Much later when rumbling around the Pyrenees I regularly swapped my Hinckley Bonnie for a ‘fix’ on…
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Tour or track

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Sarah Wilkinson

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31st August 2016

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 MSS reappeared with a redesigned ‘square’ engine of 86mm by 86mm, and this 499cc motor would go on to power…
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Sweet twin

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Sarah Wilkinson

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31st August 2016

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 document and scrap of a receipt over the years, together with lists of things to do, service and repair. Far…
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Fork seal replacement

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Sarah Wilkinson

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31st August 2016

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 surface areas – amazingly holds in the fork oil that damps out the vagaries of Her Majesty’s highways. If you’ve…
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Continental chic: Motó 6.5

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Sarah Wilkinson

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31st August 2016

What do you get when you cross a French designer with an Italian motorcycle manufacturer?
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Beezer’s ‘Trophy’

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Sarah Wilkinson

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31st August 2016

We should tread carefully with this story, because it’s all about a man renowned for some stunning restorations who also enjoys taking a gentle rise out of folks who would have you believe they possess great knowledge. If you called such a chap an expert, he’d probably blush slightly and bow his head in false…
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FRANK WESTWORTH ON POINTLESSNESS

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Sarah Wilkinson

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31st August 2016

It went like THIS: charge battery (I’ve done this before, see); check for fuel (always helps); free the clutch (it’s a Triumph), switch on and kick. There you have it, a simple routine for starting an old Brit bike which hasn’t run for a little while. They’re mostly the same, bikes from the 1945 –…
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‘Double trouble’ in Lincolnshire at George Brown Memorial Sprint

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Sam Hewitt

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24th August 2016

A horde of highly tuned classic sprinters will be unleashed at East Kirby airfield, in Lincolnshire, over the weekend of September 10-11, 2016. The two-day event promises ‘double (engined) trouble’ when the George Brown Memorial Sprint returns to the historic airfield, which is itself steeped in history. The air museum is sited near the…
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Ride around Romney

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Sam Hewitt

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24th August 2016

Veteran and vintage motorcycles are invited to join the upcoming popular Romney Marsh Run. It takes place on Sunday, September 25, 2016 starting and finishing at The Star Inn, St Mary-in-the-Marsh, Romney Marsh, Kent TN29 0BX. The run is open to all marques and is suitable for lower-powered veteran (pre-1915) and flat-tank (pre-1931) motorcycles and…
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Clint Eastwood deep in conversation

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Jayne Skayman

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11th August 2016

Clint Eastwood deep in conversation If you would like a photo print of this image have a look on www.mortonsarchive.com
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