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Norton Dominator 99SS “I didn’t realise what a rare model it was until after I’d bought it,” admits Richard Miller, “but it’s the Super Sports version of the 99 Dominator, and Norton only made it for a year or so.” He’s quite right on both counts, and the reason was probably tied up with the…

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1930 Morgan Aero Super Sports and 1935 James Samson Handyvan If you want to see a motorcyclist's eyes glaze over, just mention the phrase, 'three wheeler'. His mind will fill with images of turgid plastic bodied vehicles which only exist because a quirk of British law exempts their owners from pass­ing a motor car driving…

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1956 MV Agusta Modello CS Sport After WWII, a world championship was established for motorcycle racing, with the first season coming in 1949. Almost from the off – 1950 in fact – the name MV Agusta was represented, which was to remain the case for the next 25-plus years. During that quarter of a century,…

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Brough Superior SS80 Special George Bernard Shaw contentiously wrote: “Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior and are disgraced by the inferior.” Yet, the title of ‘The Rolls-Royce of motorcycles’, suggested by HD Teague, writing in The Motor Cycle of 12 April, 1923 during a road test of the first production Brough Superior SS80, caused…

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Vincent Comet and LE sidecar Every Vincent Comet/Meteor owner will be fed up with the old chestnut ‘It’s only half a twin.’ Reintroduced for the 1948 season, the stock 499cc Comet pushed out a healthy 28bhp/5800rpm measured at the crankshaft, which compares favourably with 23bhp delivered by the AJS Model 18/Matchless G80, 24.6bhp from an…

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