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Canon Basil Davies Ixion found the model with its single cylinder engine based on the existing 499cc Rudge, but with its stroke increased to 132mm, initially intimidating. Then he discovered it started easily, refused to ‘gum up’ even when over oiled and it glided away from a standing start ‘like a Rolls-Royce car.’ Like Rudge,…

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Jack Webb and his 500 Hagon-JAP replica This year, the opportunity for riders, mechanics, officials or just keen spectators past and present, to get together and celebrate a common bond of enthusiasm for track racing, happened at the National Museum of Speedway, within Paradise Wildlidfe Park, a zoo run by former rider Pete Sampson. Among…

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Freddie at work (on right) During the Second World War Freddie was an apprentice in the Naval Dockyard in Portsmouth and became a Home Guard despatch rider. When peace returned he started racing grass-track and by 1947 he had signed for Wembley and rode exclusively for the Lions until 1956. He won the World Championship…

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James Robinson talks Broughs… He starts with a look at a pair of Brough Superiors on the Bonhams stand, an SS100 and SS80. The 1926 SS100 is powered by a JAP V-Twin and is in superb condition, with an auction estimate of between £160-200,000 — it will be auctioned at the Stafford Show in April.…

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Form an orderly queue… The event at the Royal Bath & West Showground was one for the purists, and the thousands who came along were rewarded with two days of cracking weather in which to explore the hundreds of bikes on display. The Best in Show award went to Rodney Hann's 546cc Husqvarna 180. He…

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