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Reference: BSA A65 Spitfire MKIV
BSA A65 Spitfire MKIV Though the Spitfire moniker doesn’t carry the same evocative connotations as say Bonneville or Black Shadow in motorcycling arenas, it is surely one of the great model names, whether it’s on a Rolls Royce-engined WWII fighter plane, a Triumph sports car or a rorty BSA twin. BSA first used the Spitfire…
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Reference: BSA A65 Spitfire MKIV
BSA A65 Spitfire MKIV Though the Spitfire moniker doesn’t carry the same evocative connotations as say Bonneville or Black Shadow in motorcycling arenas, it is surely one of the great model names, whether it’s on a Rolls Royce-engined WWII fighter plane, a Triumph sports car or a rorty BSA twin. BSA first used the Spitfire…
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Brooklands Double 12
It is a car event, but the motorcycle presence increases every year. For those of a liberal outlook, there were plenty of interesting cars as well as automobilia stands and even period dance displays. The speed activity of the re-created event is centred on a sprint around part of the the Mercedes-Benz test track. Among…
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Road Test: Velocette 250 MOV
Velocette 250 MOV At 2007’s Festival of 1000 Bikes, I had a session-long dice with a chap mounted on a rigid framed bike with a distinctive fishtail exhaust. The machine’s features indicated that it was an elderly Velocette (Sherlock Holmes has nothing on me!) but it certainly wasn’t being ridden with the respect usually reserved…
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Road Test: Velocette 250 MOV
Velocette 250 MOV At 2007’s Festival of 1000 Bikes, I had a session-long dice with a chap mounted on a rigid framed bike with a distinctive fishtail exhaust. The machine’s features indicated that it was an elderly Velocette (Sherlock Holmes has nothing on me!) but it certainly wasn’t being ridden with the respect usually reserved…
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Road Test: Velocette 250 MOV
Velocette 250 MOV At 2007’s Festival of 1000 Bikes, I had a session-long dice with a chap mounted on a rigid framed bike with a distinctive fishtail exhaust. The machine’s features indicated that it was an elderly Velocette (Sherlock Holmes has nothing on me!) but it certainly wasn’t being ridden with the respect usually reserved…
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The way we were: August 1938
Riding his 998cc Vincent-HRD V-twin Ginger (S) Wood recorded 12.50 seconds to set second best time, gain the Fernihough Cup for the best non-expert time and move status upwards to expert. Just three one-hundredths of a second behind Wood was sprint motorcycle builder Francis Williams with his 498cc Cotton-Blackburne. The Motor Cycle’s scribe finished his…
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Gurston Down hill climb
Trying to ignore the soaking conditions, Jack Bennett gets his International Norton off the line Like most hill climbs, the course is narrow, sinuous and, with a long downhill start, very fast in places. While more competitive riders use modern v-twins or motocross machines, the club also encourages the use of older bikes that contest…
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VMCC Sprint, Thorney Island
Roger Pailes gets his 500 Triumph sprinter off the line at Thorney Island The quarter-mile course ran slightly downhill, but the advantage was more than cancelled by a headwind. In the Vintage class Bernard White got his times on his Douglas down to 13.14/96mph, but it was not enough to catch John Young who, in…
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Reference: Triumph Speed Twin test
1962 Triumph Speed Twin Physical landmarks have traditionally been the most obvious measures of progress and the Triumph Speed Twin is one of these, having influenced motorcycle engineering throughout four decades. The owner of this example, Geoff Pearce, was born two years before the launch of the original model in 1938, yet the 1962 version…
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