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  • The way we were: November

    The way we were: November

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    November 1913 As well as offering Indians equipped with electric lights, for the coming season The Hendee Company, Springfield, Massachusetts. is to market the Hendee Special, which is fitted with an electric start system via a multi polar motor/dynamo. In addition to its familiar models, Rex of Coventry is listing a larger 952cc V-twin with…

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  • Road Test: Abingdon King Dick Model 78

    Road Test: Abingdon King Dick Model 78

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    Abingdon King Dick Model 78 You can just imagine the ribald comments a present-day rider would get if he or she rode a motorcycle made by a firm called King Dick. And that’s not just me being unduly sensitive or prurient, because when I did a bit of Internet research on the firm I found…

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  • Road Test: Abingdon King Dick Model 78

    Road Test: Abingdon King Dick Model 78

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    Abingdon King Dick Model 78 You can just imagine the ribald comments a present-day rider would get if he or she rode a motorcycle made by a firm called King Dick. And that’s not just me being unduly sensitive or prurient, because when I did a bit of Internet research on the firm I found…

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  • Road Test: Abingdon King Dick Model 78

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    Abingdon King Dick Model 78 You can just imagine the ribald comments a present-day rider would get if he or she rode a motorcycle made by a firm called King Dick. And that’s not just me being unduly sensitive or prurient, because when I did a bit of Internet research on the firm I found…

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  • Bonhams at Stafford Show

    Bonhams at Stafford Show

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    The collection includes numerous Hondas, ranging from the humble but design-classic Super Cub to the NR750 and everything in between, including 10 unused monkey bikes and a number of exceptionally early machines. The machines, which are estimated to achieve a combined total of more than £300,000 are being sold by Michael Buttinger, a Dutch entrepreneur…

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  • VMCC Chalfont St Giles hill climb

    VMCC Chalfont St Giles hill climb

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    Chris Smith in full flight on an early Hagon fitted with an even earlier 500 JAP motor The machinery is equally varied, consisting of grass track and off road bikes from a time when market demand was met by many small-scale operations, most of which are now memories. Chalfont offered a further chance for exercise.…

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  • Classic news

    Classic news

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    The local Velocette OC make something of an event of it too, with half a dozen ‘racing’ prewar Velos and a pair of New Imperials joining in the session with the 1970s Morini guys. It all works well! • Grampian Convention Vintage and classic motorcycles are among the many attractions at the Grampian Motorcycle Convention…

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  • The way we were in October

    The way we were in October

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    1963 Following the unveiling of a prototype lightweight, the 74.8cc overhead valve unit construction BSA Beagle last year, the factory has now further developed the machine. Improvements include Girling damper units instead of springs for the rear suspension, a larger seat and a resited engine oil level dipstick. BSA of Armoury Road, Small Heath, Birmingham…

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  • The Classic MotorCycle on sale – October, 2013

    The Classic MotorCycle on sale – October, 2013

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    New TCM on sale now • Editor's intro • News     • Founders Day     • Moto Retro du Puy     • Subscribe and save     • Letters    • John Hobbs interview     • Classic advert     • Men who mattered (Dave Whitworth)     • For various budgets (1960s singles)     • Jerry Thurston column  …

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  • Straight from the plate: Sunbeam point-to-point, April 1953

    Straight from the plate: Sunbeam point-to-point, April 1953

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    Jack Hubbard (46) and Brian Stonebridge, formation flying on their Matchlesses Almost his namesake, Bryan, (with a ‘y’) Sharp on a 200cc two-stroke Dot-Villiers, was the victor in the Lightweight event while his brother Triss (‘the younger’ – their father, Triss, was a well-known speedway rider) won the 125cc event on another Dot. Unluckiest man…

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