It’s official – classic bikes make you feel younger, more attractive and happier… (WARNING – the above statement has no scientific facts behind it but I was told by a bloke down the pub and
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‘Why do we need so many bikes?’
There is an amusing – well the first time you hear it – saying doing the rounds that goes something along these lines: ‘X=Y+1’. If X is the perfect number of bikes, then Y
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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
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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.
Read moreMoT exempt – hurrah! Or is it?
I don’t watch the news any more. It gives me a little more time in the workshop, and to my less-than-academic mind it seems the world is run by sociopaths trying to look after themselves
Read moreThermals? Check. ‘I’m just popping out, dear’
All that well-intentioned squit last month I wrote about workshop jobs to do? Well, I, er, there’s an issue. You see, as lucky as it is working around bikes, you are constantly reminded just how
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Blimey – it’s cold outside. All too quickly, the nights are drawing in and the temperature is dropping like a valve on a botched downshift. So is it time to wrap the bikes up and
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My first car was a Morris Minor. Bought it aged 15, learned how to restore it (badly) and loved it. Lowered, twin carbs and silly seats, I’d drive (badly) all over the country. When it
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Before the interweb, dreams couldn’t be realised quite so easily. When I started riding, my evening ‘blast’ (as much as you can on a Suzuki ZR50, albeit with a slightly tired 80cc big-bore) would
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As you may have read last month, Frank Westworth has now stepped away from creating Classic Bike Guide. Rumours that decades of perfecting the skill of kicking over his trusty steeds taking its toll,
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