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  • Road Test: SOS DW

    Road Test: SOS DW

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    SOS DW SOS surely has the most pleasing symmetry of all the motorcycle makers who ever traded under a set of initials. The letters changed their meaning during the commercial life of the trademark, although their shapeliness remained encapsulated in the monogram of a rotating wheel right through to the final models. The SOS manufacturing…

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  • Road Test: Ariel NG De Luxe

    Road Test: Ariel NG De Luxe

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    1938 Ariel NG De Luxe The owner and restorer of this Ariel, Mike Lymn, is a man who gets things done. Whether it be house building, gun remanufacturing, artwork restoration or bringing old motorcycles back to life, Mike relishes a challenge, and for his first restoration he didn’t pick a particularly easy project, one for…

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  • Road Test: Ariel NG De Luxe

    Road Test: Ariel NG De Luxe

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    1938 Ariel NG De Luxe The owner and restorer of this Ariel, Mike Lymn, is a man who gets things done. Whether it be house building, gun remanufacturing, artwork restoration or bringing old motorcycles back to life, Mike relishes a challenge, and for his first restoration he didn’t pick a particularly easy project, one for…

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  • Road Test: Ariel NG De Luxe

    Road Test: Ariel NG De Luxe

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    1938 Ariel NG De Luxe The owner and restorer of this Ariel, Mike Lymn, is a man who gets things done. Whether it be house building, gun remanufacturing, artwork restoration or bringing old motorcycles back to life, Mike relishes a challenge, and for his first restoration he didn’t pick a particularly easy project, one for…

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  • Road Test: Vincent Black Prince

    Road Test: Vincent Black Prince

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    1955 Vincent Black Prince Effective armour and high speed rarely combine in nature, save in those instances where man has defied evolution. Such combinations are usually memorable, as when Edward of Woodstock carried a weight of protection into battle on his powerful charger during the 14th century, or when British Railways standard class 9F locomotive…

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  • Road Test: Vincent Black Prince

    Road Test: Vincent Black Prince

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    1955 Vincent Black Prince Effective armour and high speed rarely combine in nature, save in those instances where man has defied evolution. Such combinations are usually memorable, as when Edward of Woodstock carried a weight of protection into battle on his powerful charger during the 14th century, or when British Railways standard class 9F locomotive…

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  • Road Test: Vincent Black Prince

    Road Test: Vincent Black Prince

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    1955 Vincent Black Prince Effective armour and high speed rarely combine in nature, save in those instances where man has defied evolution. Such combinations are usually memorable, as when Edward of Woodstock carried a weight of protection into battle on his powerful charger during the 14th century, or when British Railways standard class 9F locomotive…

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  • Grantham calling!

    Grantham calling!

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    If anyone interested could drop us a line (at [email protected]), that’d be great. There’ll be lunch provided and perhaps a contribution towards fuel costs, too. There are sections of the event being held across Grantham town centre and the railway station, with the motorcycles expected to be displayed on the green outside the main council…

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  • Racing certs

    Racing certs

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    Stu Noble and Andy Hunt, of SCR Classic Motorcycles, initially just worked on their own bikes, then extended to friends’ machines and across the race paddocks to competitors’ mounts. But now they are offering their services to classic bike enthusiasts alongside their successful design and fabrication business, Steelcraft. Beyond the usual workshop facilities, SCR has…

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  • Bike Fest at North Weald

    Bike Fest at North Weald

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    Kevin Hunt takes to one of Dave Benge’s 500 JAP sprint specials The day's events followed the usual format of a mix of quarter-mile sprint sessions between periods of circuits around the runway for solos, then sidecars. A lunchtime interlude saw a brief demonstration of vintage grass track and speedway bikes on the ground adjoining…

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