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Club stand success for DOT at Stafford
Among the award winners were the DOT Owners Club, which picked up the award for Best Club Stand, while Sean Kelly’s gorgeous 1928 Model 90 Sunbeam was Best in Show. Read about the show and see a picture of the Sunbeam on page 21. Read more news in July’s edition of TCM
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Racing Rudges
There is nobody alive today that is as passionate about racing Rudges as Mervyn Stratford – he has been campaigning the same 1934 four-valve 250 for nearly 50 years. If you saw him stand alongside his Rudge, you might think it was impossible for anyone so tall to get the best out of such a…
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The Jubilee Races
Percy Tait (AJS) streaks round a right-hand corner. It came as an unwelcome surprise to some road race fans when it was revealed that a sizeable bunch of top riders including Maurice Cann, Bob Keeler, Derek Farrant and the young John Surtees would not be making an appearance at the Crystal Palace circuit for the…
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Time machine
The compact dimensions of the riding position are clear to see. Most motorcycle design doesn’t represent a two-wheeled expression of design trends manifested in the world at large. But occasionally something surfaces that goes against that convention, as a look at the recently restored American four-cylinder Henderson motorcycle created by O. Roy Courtney in 1935…
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Commuting with style
Above: Despite the KS100 being half the engine capacity of the other, it is only about 5mph slower. Just like a certain savoury spread, people either love two-strokes or loathe them, and those in the latter camp are very resistant to changing their minds. If any motorcycle could persuade them though, it would have to…
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Beautiful baby
As I travelled back from riding the 680 Brough Superior, I was trying to think about what it most reminded me of as a riding experience. Was it really a ‘miniature’ SS100 or something entirely different? As I pondered what it did most resemble, the thing I could conjure up most readily was my father’s…
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Crash, bang, wallop…
Though Brooklands endured sustained popularity as a venue for record-breaking and high-speed machine proving, it was never really a place that provided much spectator enjoyment and in consequence, crowds numbers were always small – succinctly described in Motor Cycling of October 12, 1927, as a ‘meagre sprinkling.’ Acutely aware of the situation, a plan was…
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Pioneering spirit
Dave Jones poses with the 1913 Ariel he’d borrowed from Chris Thomas. The first day of spring 2016 (March 20) and the Sunbeam MCC’s Pioneer Run ushered in the start of the riding season with the 77th trip to Brighton for strictly controlled, genuine veteran machines. Some light early rain had cleared by the time…
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Spring in the air at Ardingly
Frank Kay bought this hard-used Greeves Hawkstone scrambles bike in 1980 and registered it for the road. It was a sharp contrast to the previous week, when the annual Ashford Cattle Market event had been hit hard in the aftermath of storm Katie. While there were a number of regularly attending bikes, organiser Julie Diplock…
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The Brooklands Motorcycle Show… Then and now
Motorcycles return to the hallowed banking on July 3, 2016. The show will pay homage to those prewar pioneers and daredevils of the track, but also feature the latest machines from some of today’s top manufacturers. The famous Test Hill will provide a unique opportunity to see how the prewar race bikes fare against today’s…
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