New & Features
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Editor’s Welcome
While putting together this issue, I’ve been considering, somewhat wistfully owing to the cold, dark weather, the possibilities of getting out and doing some longer motorcycling trips. In our modern, cautious world, we have a tendency to approach everything with apprehension and a ‘what if it all goes wrong?’ mentality. And so we set off…
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Stars shine bright
Words: JAMES ROBINSON Photographs: GARY CHAPMAN The Stafford show welcomed glittering guests and star motorcycles (including Barry Sheene’s 1976 and 1977 500cc title winners) to its annual October showcase. Although the October Stafford show is sponsored by and billed the Classic Motorcycle Mechanics show, so aimed predominantly at motorcycles from the 1970s to the 1990s…
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South of England success
There was a record attendance at the final Elk Promotions event for 2016, at the South of England Classic Show on the familiar Ardingly Showground, on October 23. Guest of honour was Jim Redman, and this time a fire-up paddock, inspired by Jim’s stellar race career, added a further dimension to proceedings. A number of…
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Delighted Rotary winner
The National Motorcycle Museum’s summer 2016 raffle to win a 1990 Norton F1 Rotary 588cc motorcycle was drawn by road racing superstars Carl Fogarty, John McGuinness and Ian Hutchinson at the ‘Museum Live’ open day at the National Motorcycle Museum on Saturday, November 5. First prize was won by David Schofield, from County Durham, with…
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Shed and Buried
A motorcycle-mad pair of TV engineering detectives are on the hunt for forgotten and hidden treasures tucked away in the sheds of Britain. Travel Channel presenters Henry Cole (above) and Sam Lovegrove are about to film their next series which sees them rifling through the lock-ups and sheds of the UK. In previous series they’ve…
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Series A just short of world record
At its November 15 sale at Donington, H&H sold a Series A HRD Rapide, recently discovered among a job-lot collection in Japan, to a British buyer bidding on the phone for £267,696, just short of the £275,000 world record. The rare survivor had been carefully stored in recent years and not only do the frame…
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The wrong Ernie?
I believe that reader Howard McKay (TCM, November 2016) has got his Ernies mixed up when he mentioned the nice ‘Ernie Lyons BSA racer.’ This machine was actually built in 1952 by Ernie Earles of Elms Metals in Birmingham. An impressive looking machine, with its duplex all-welded aluminium tube frame, housing a possibly ex-works BSA…
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Simple pleasures
Words: Roy Poynting Photographs: Terry Joslin This two-stroke, two-speed Levis is a fine example of an early vintage ride-to-work machine. Some visiting American friends once saw one of these delightful little machines and exclaimed “gee, that’s neat, a motorcycle with the same name as our jeans!” Well, for the record there’s absolutely no connection between…
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Silver streak
Words: Steve Wilson Photographs: Gary Chapman This 1956 Thunderbird is a rolling demonstration of why these soft-tuned, iron-engined 650s were the ultimate Triumph twin for many experienced riders. Triumph’s 6T Thunderbird was held by many ‘in the know’ to be the all-round best of the firm’s twins. Sales manager Ivor Davies, the late guru restorer…
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Beauty from the beast
Words: JAMES ROBINSON Photographs: GARY CHAPMAN MV’s 4C, introduced for 1966, was not what prospective purchasers and schoolboys the world over dreamed of. Imagine if MV had made this instead… Amulti-cylinder MV Agusta roadster had been the dream of enthusiasts ever since the four-cylinder racer made its bow in 1950, with the R19 Turismo shown…
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