Features

Portway promenade

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Sam Hewitt

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5th August 2016

Lovely period photograph, from June 1933, of motorcyclists and their machines lined on the Portway, Bristol. ‘… the fine concrete […]
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A question of sport

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Sam Hewitt

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11th July 2016

When thinking of a sport to combine with football (or soccer to our American friends) the petrol-fuelled revelry of motorcycling […]
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Pretty special

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Sam Hewitt

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11th July 2016

This attractive 500cc replica of a Production TT winner started life as a 350cc Viper. Pretty special Wrapped up against […]
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Trying times

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Sam Hewitt

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11th July 2016

Have you ever been to a museum and wanted to ‘have a go’ on the exhibits? Now, the National Motorcycle […]
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Motorcycles dominate at the Land’s End Trial

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Sam Hewitt

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11th July 2016

Previously an event favoured equally by those of the two-, three- and four-wheeled persuasion, the 1953 Land’s End Trial was […]
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Vitesse with finesse

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Sam Hewitt

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11th July 2016

An exhaustive search led to the resurrection of an incredibly rare, but quite fabulous, model. Vitesse with finesse Though it […]
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The story of the Ormonde

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Sam Hewitt

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11th July 2016

Modern literature often relates the decline of the British and continental motorcycle industry in the 1950s and 1960s. Arguably the […]
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Crash, bang, wallop…

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Sam Hewitt

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11th July 2016

A tangle of Nortons at Brooklands in 1927. Crash, bang, wallop… Though Brooklands endured sustained popularity as a venue for […]
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Beautiful baby

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Sam Hewitt

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11th July 2016

The 680 ohv Brough Superior was launched as smaller version of the iconic SS100 – and it certainly looked the […]
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Commuting with style

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Sam Hewitt

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11th July 2016

In Germany in the 1950s and 60s, Zundapp was one of several companies to manufacture high-class ‘commuter’ machines. Commuting with […]
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