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Star crossed
Words and photography: Steve Wilson Eighty years ago BSA hit the sporting singles market with a ‘one-two’ – first, the charismatic Empire Star, and then a complete redesign and a range of high-quality, precedent-setting sporting singles. My young friend Ed Batty is impulsive – but in a cautious way. This chimes with his somewhat contradictory…
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Best After Tests
Words and photography: Phillip Tooth This 1913 90-Bore Bat-JAP offers staggering performance, but that’s not surprising considering its pedigree. Stephan Friedl sets the needle valve of the drip feed on the Best and Lloyd oil pump to number two. Then he releases the clip that holds the plunger down, and as the internal spring pushes…
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A tale of Two Inters
Words: JAMES ROBINSON Photography: GARY CHAPMAN/mortons archive This pair of International Nortons both have a 1950s Clubman TT history and share an engine, but they are from different ‘generations’. Stood alongside one another, what is most obviously apparent about this pair of International Nortons, built just two years apart, is the differences, rather than the…
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Fabulous four
Vic Willoughby is taken for a ride by the runner-up in The Motor Cycle’s 1962 ‘Specials’ competition. The Motor Cycle ran a competition in 1962 where readers could submit their ‘specials’ to be judged by a panel of experts – which included prolific special builder Bob Collier – in the quest to win a £25…
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Editor’s welcome
This month has taken in my favourite event of the year, the Irish National Rally, which was as fabulous as ever and held in mainly brilliant sunshine. Two days on the 1924 Montgomery-Bradshaw, then two days on the 1930 Model 9 Sunbeam, after the poor Montgomery cried enough after about 300 hard miles, but it…
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Top award at 100 Bikes goes to main attraction
Russel Taschner’s magnificent 1913 Clyno motorcycle, which was billed as the main attraction at the recent 1000 Bikes Show at Germiston High School, took the top award at the South African event too. The Clyno was also the Best Veteran, Ladies’ Choice and the Best Bike inside the Marquee, with the latter two awards based…
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Ramsgate Rev-Up!
In spite of the spectacular success of the ‘Ramsgate Revival’ sprint last year, months of uncertainty led to the final abandonment of a repeat sprint demonstration this year. Determined the momentum of interest should be maintained, the organisers decided to go ahead with an alternative – the Ramsgate Rev-Up, a static show, on August 14,…
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By Alan Turner Long-established as a bastion of transport preservation, the Bluebell Railway in Sussex offers even more of the same on the occasion of its annual vintage weekend, which this year was on August 13-14. As well as a full, steam-hauled train service, the event hosts a vintage and classic vehicle display in the…
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Unrestored 1966 Velocette Thruxton sold
An unrestored 1966 Velocette Thruxton was sold by H&H Classics at its Donington Park Auction on July 28, for £20,000, twice the pre-sale estimate, and a new world record for an unrestored bike of this type. Mark Bryan, a motorcycle specialist at H&H, said: “We are delighted with this result and this new record. There…
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Model X observations
I much enjoyed reading the September issue. What makes me put ‘fingers to keyboard’ is your test on a 1937 Matchless Model X. All what you say about the bike is mirrored by my experience when first offered to ride such a machine at the 1989 A&MOC Jampot Rally held in the Clee Hills. The…
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