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Veteran Run
David Noakes, from East Sussex, takes a break at Staplefield on his De Dion Bouton tricycle The cavalcade obviously majors on four-wheelers, but three-wheelers and forecars are also eligible and a significant number are regular entrants (and finishers). This year's better weather brought out a good number of supporters riding a wonderful variety of machinery.…
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The way we were: December
At the recent Olympia Show, Motosacoche displayed an electrically equipped motorcycle. Of simpler design than Indian’s, the Motosacoche design comprises a saddle tube mounted dynamo driven by the rear wheel to charge a battery mounted within a box on a footboard. As the rear wheel turns, the tyre drives a small roller mounted to one…
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Road Test: ISDT TriBSA
Magnificent ISDT TriBSA History records that the 1965 Isle of Man International Six Days Trial was one of the wettest in the event’s long and chequered history. The reason – as local folklore would have you believe – was that there were too many foreigners in the Island and as a result the Manx fairies…
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Road Test: ISDT TriBSA
Magnificent ISDT TriBSA History records that the 1965 Isle of Man International Six Days Trial was one of the wettest in the event’s long and chequered history. The reason – as local folklore would have you believe – was that there were too many foreigners in the Island and as a result the Manx fairies…
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Road Test: ISDT TriBSA
Magnificent ISDT TriBSA History records that the 1965 Isle of Man International Six Days Trial was one of the wettest in the event’s long and chequered history. The reason – as local folklore would have you believe – was that there were too many foreigners in the Island and as a result the Manx fairies…
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Rocking in to Brighton
Maintaining some sort of faith for the home country were Phil Bailey and ‘Mustang Sally.’ Lifelong bike enthusiasts, they had received a tip-off over a barn find, an Enfield and an ES2 Norton. The owner had stored the bikes for years. Phil and Sally, with help from a gang of friends, cleaned away years of…
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RA Douglas set for Harrogate
It is, it would seem, a rare, genuine RA (for Research Association) model, though it has lost several distinguishing features, including its ‘disc’ brakes. Brought in from South Africa, it comes as part of a collection, which includes a 1935 Excelsior Manxman. Other machines in the sale include a host of projects, including a Gold…
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News in brief
Royal Enfield launched its new cafe racer with a ride from the Ace Cafe down to Brighton The European launch of Royal Enfield’s new Continental GT 535 was celebrate in appropriate style with a burn-up… Organised by the Indian company, 50 European press people on the red bikes first fought and filtered their way from…
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TriBSA profile
TRI-umph engine in BSA frame = TriBSA Today, you’re on a hiding to nothing with specials, aren’t you? If you use the best available frame and motor, critics will immediately accuse you of cannibalising two perfectly good machines. Yet if you use commonplace components, they’ll sniffily ask why you bothered to do anything in the…
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The Classic MotorCycle on sale – December 2013
New issue on sale! • Editor's intro • Archive photograph • News • Diary • Kop Hill Climb • Subscribe and save • Angle-Dutch Rally • Letters • Velocette MAC Super Profile • Isle of Wight Scurry • Veloce 3½hp • Glass plate – 1954 Belgian Sidecar GP • Vincent Black Shadow • Reader’s restoration…
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