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Best of Bologna
Audi has honoured Ducati, its relatively new acquisition, with an impressive exhibition marking the Italian maker’s 90th anniversary. Rather than come from Ducati’s museum, machines for this event, which lasts until April 30 this year, are all private loans. And, strange but true, the 54 solo motorcycles add up to 109 wheels… Words and photographs:…
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Marvellous middleweight
After an extensive reconstruction, this glorious BSA is ready to go back to its patient owner. Words: JAMES ROBINSON Photographs: GARY CHAPMAN As Dave Rosser, co-owner of Robin James Engineering Services, and I stood back in the shadows and let photographer Gary do his work, Dave looked at this BSA and mused; “I’m glad it’s…
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Ironheart
With Royal Enfield’s new all alloy-engined, unit construction, EFI fuel-injected Bullet single well-established, the old iron engine, pre-unit Bullets are arguably now…classics? Words and photographs: Steve Wilson Oxford Royal Enfield, and its customising arm BMCC, inhabit a reassuringly petrol-head location. It’s an industrial estate behind a farm, where in other units you keep getting glimpses of…
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Be quick for Bristol
The first weekend of February – the 4/5th – sees the 37th Carole Nash Bristol Classic Motorcycle Show, at the Bath and West showground, in Shepton Mallet. Gates open from 10am each day, with more than 80 owners’ clubs attending, plus autojumble, private displays, trade stands and the Charterhouse auction held in a separate building…
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Letters: A question of taste
Beauty is indeed in the eye of the beholder. I personally consider the Bimota MV (January 2017) to be equal to the Munch Mammut in terms of ugliness. On the other end of the scale, I consider the classic lines of the Triumph Thunderbird to be beautiful. What a good thing it is that we…
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So near…
Words: Roy Poynting Photographs: Terry Joslin If only battery technology and understanding had been better, the Norton Electra could have been a huge hit. When I reported on Brian Jeffery’s rare Triumph TSX (TCM, November 2015), I mentioned the almost equally elusive Norton Electra was another entry on his very short wish-list of British motorcycles…
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Telford Classic Dirt Bike off-road show
The countdown has begun to the biggest classic off-road event of the year, and so it’s all eyes on the Telford International Centre which will once again host the two-day Classic Dirt Bike Show sponsored by Hagon Shocks. Taking place across the weekend of February 18/19, one of the star guests has been confirmed as…
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Rare Matchless highlight of sale
On March 4, 2017, Dee Atkinson & Harrison’s sale at Sledmere House, Driffield, Yorkshire, is offering this Matchless Silver Hawk. It is thought to be one of only 60 surviving examples of about 500 made. The estimate is £45,000-55,000. First registered on March 8, 1933 in Taunton, Somerset, to a Mr A C Thomason, the…
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Ken Hallworth (1942-2016)
As Ken and Irene Hallworth launched Old Bike Mart (OBM) in 1985 they could never have dreamt its future profound significance. As long-standing old bike enthusiasts, they spotted a large publishing market gap and their formula of lots of private classifieds, trade adverts, editorial, events diary and more hit the spot. Initial promotion was by…
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Book Review: “Isle of Man TT – The Golden Years 1947-1962 Volume Two”
Author: Mick Duckworth Published by: Lily Publications Ltd, PO Box 33, Ramsey, Isle of Man, IM99 4LP www.lilypublications.co.uk Fax: +44 (0) 1624 898 446 Hardback, 210 x 205mm (landscape); 96 pages with over 110 photographs and illustrations. ISBN 978-1-911177-09-8. £16. This second volume in the Golden Years series is packed with a rich mixture of…
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