Harley-Davidson 45 sidevalve (pdf) Tough, dependable, and not very fast, the 45 cubic inch Harley-Davidson side-valve was what American motor cycling was all about from 1930 to the early 1950s. A product of the terrible
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Ariel 4G and Watsonian
Ariel 4G and Watsonian sidecar test (pdf) From the point of view of the family man who may be in a position, financially, to buy the cheapest of current new cars simply as passenger-carrying transport,
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1938 Earls Court Motorcycle Show (pdf) What the show reveals: Widespread adoption of rear-wheel springing. No fewer than nine different makes of motorised bicycle – cycle-type machines which any cyclist can learn to ride in
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1914 Douglas Ladies (pdf) History books do not, on the whole, serve women well. With a few exceptions women's achievements, though they may be lauded at the time, are soon forgotten. This is never truer
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1927 BSA 500cc single (pdf) Big Slow and Awkward. That was the reputation of Birmingham Small Arms' range of dependable but boring motor cycles. But this 1927 Sloper is something else. Fitted with a TT
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1953 BSA A10 650cc road test (pdf) On an ‘mph per pound’ basis, the B.S.A. 'Golden Flash' must be one of the least expensive high-performance projects offered to the buying public in post-war years. In
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Indian Warrior: why it failed (pdf) Brutish but durable, the massive vee-twin has always held a fascination for American motor cyclists, brought up in the traditional "New World" philosophy that big and tough is better
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Gnome et Rhone (pdf) Hardly had the smoke lifted from the battlefields of France after WWI than the famous British aircraft company Sopwith revealed plans, and a prototype, of a radical new motorcycle designed by
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Rare Harley-Davidson XA The horizontally opposed BMW-style 750cc model XA Harley-Davidson is a sure-fire attention grabber at any motor cycle gathering—but as is so often the case with rare machines there is a long, long
Read moreNorton 800cc dohc
Norton’s experimental 800cc dohc The need was pressing, the calendar relentless. Under Dennis Poore, the Wolverhampton-based Manganese Bronze Holdings company (owners of Villiers Engineering, to name but one) had acquired the wreckage of the collapsed
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