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BMW had reason to be continually grateful for the police buying its motorcycles, as by the time of this photograph, the company was seriously considering giving up motorcycle manufacture as times were so tough – in 1957, just 5400 machines were sold; as recently as 1954 30,000 had been shifted. Indeed, things were so dire…

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1968 Seeley-Velocette Thruxton There are no stiff and graceful BSA or Norton-style duplex loops here; just a boringly straight down tube, united with a flat base section by an old-fashioned brazed lug. Further aft, the swinging arm pivots in a heavy casting that’s fixed onto the saddle tube, with little other than the brazed joint…

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Alfred Angus Scott (pdf) Frequently, he bitterly criticized contemporaries who, lacking his own crystal-clear vision, offended against those views. But, though he was ever prepared to speak his mind — and what Yorkshireman is not? — Scott was no unproductive agitator, unable or unwilling to make his own contribution to the furtherance of science. Indeed,…

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BSA B31 350cc single From the restorer's point of view, the big advantage of a bike such as BSA's daily-workhorse 350cc B31 single, is that it remained in produc­tion for so long – modified over the years, naturally, but not to any significant degree – that parts are still relatively easy to obtain; even for…

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