Road Tests

Brough Superior SS80 Special George Bernard Shaw contentiously wrote: “Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior and are disgraced by

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1959 Ariel Leader Hampshireman Neil Redley is (to put it mildly) a Velocette enthusiast, and he needs to explain why

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1929 Competition Cotton-Blackburne I’ve no idea how modern manufacturers teach their engineering students the rudiments of motorcycle frame design, but

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Overseas 3.5hp In the veteran period, many motorcycles had their idiosyncrasies for the rider to deal with, and a set

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1960 Ducati 125 Sport Ducati’s simple but reliable auxiliary unit, the Cucciolo (pup) may have been no threat to ‘real’

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1942 Harley-Davidson WLC Tony moved west from Birmingham in search of a better quality of life. He has built a

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1938 Harley-Davidson Model ULH Imagine, if you can, that you are a novice rider who has just been hoisted into

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1968 Harley-Davidson Electra Glide One hundred years of continuous manufacture and over 3,000,000 motorcycles later, Harley-Davidson is still going strong.

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1938 Rudge Special I’d better clarify something about the Rudge Special, right from the start. Although it was an exceptional

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AHS H9 Touring Model You only have to look at any traffic queue to see that motorcyclists are not renowned

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