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Road Test: Vincent-Norton Viscount

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26th June 2013

Norton-Vincent special I bet quite a few Norton and Vincent fans have glanced at the photographs accompanying this article, and felt it was a desecration to amalgamate their favourite marques, no matter how desirable the outcome. Well, in response to that, I can do no better than quote the machine’s original owner, who wrote in…
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Reference: Panther singles: which to choose?

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26th June 2013

1948 Panther Model 60 From the Pioneer days on, many Panthers had the distinctive design feature of being sans a front down tube, the engine doing the job instead. This of course continued right through the production cycle, with the final machines (645cc Model 120s) produced in 1966 still having the same set-up. Model description…
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Reference: Panther singles: which to choose?

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26th June 2013

1948 Panther Model 60 From the Pioneer days on, many Panthers had the distinctive design feature of being sans a front down tube, the engine doing the job instead. This of course continued right through the production cycle, with the final machines (645cc Model 120s) produced in 1966 still having the same set-up. Model description…
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Reference: BSA A65 Spitfire Hornet

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22nd June 2013

BSA A65 Spitfire Hornet Derek Gothard is a regular face on the classic concours scene, with his stream of brilliant and quite beautiful unit BSA twins regularly picking up prizes and wowing judges and the public alike with their factory-fresh finish and obvious painstaking preparation. And this Spitfire Hornet is no exception. Meanwhile, Derek’s work…
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Reference: BSA A65 Spitfire Hornet

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22nd June 2013

BSA A65 Spitfire Hornet Derek Gothard is a regular face on the classic concours scene, with his stream of brilliant and quite beautiful unit BSA twins regularly picking up prizes and wowing judges and the public alike with their factory-fresh finish and obvious painstaking preparation. And this Spitfire Hornet is no exception. Meanwhile, Derek’s work…
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Road Test: BSA C10L

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21st June 2013

1955 BSA C10L 250cc Now, I love little lightweight motorcycles. I always feel much more at home in the saddle of a ‘tiddler’. I think it’s a psychological thing as much as anything; I like to be able to feel fully in control, and being able to put both feet comfortably on the ground also…
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Road Test: BSA C10L

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21st June 2013

1955 BSA C10L 250cc Now, I love little lightweight motorcycles. I always feel much more at home in the saddle of a ‘tiddler’. I think it’s a psychological thing as much as anything; I like to be able to feel fully in control, and being able to put both feet comfortably on the ground also…
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Road Test: BSA C10L

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21st June 2013

1955 BSA C10L 250cc Now, I love little lightweight motorcycles. I always feel much more at home in the saddle of a ‘tiddler’. I think it’s a psychological thing as much as anything; I like to be able to feel fully in control, and being able to put both feet comfortably on the ground also…
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The rarest Bantam?

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18th June 2013

Surrey owner Bob Wheeler pulls his rare D13 from the BSA Bantam Club’s line-up at the Amberley Show By 1958 BSA's Bantam was entering its tenth year of production. Developments in that time had included a 150cc version, which also had a swinging arm frame. Perhaps to help convince the public that changes went deeper…
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The way we were: July 1988

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17th June 2013

Randy Mamola Mamola finished the race 40 seconds behind the winning Honda of Australian Wayne Gardner and was 10 seconds slower than Eddie Lawson’s second place Yamaha. First British riders home were Rob McElnea (Suzuki) and Ron Haslam (Elf-Honda) in sixth and seventh respectively. The year’s 250cc GP championship winner Sito Pons (Honda) won the…
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