The Classic MotorCycle

Small but strong

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Sam Hewitt

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8th August 2016

The BSA C11 was a solid, workmanlike motorcycle, possessing many of the attributes of its bigger brethren, presented in a
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UneXpected pleasure

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Sam Hewitt

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8th August 2016

A big, overweight, wobbly sidecar tug, right? Well, no, that’s not what the late Matchless Model X is at all.
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Portway promenade

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Sam Hewitt

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5th August 2016

Lovely period photograph, from June 1933, of motorcyclists and their machines lined on the Portway, Bristol. ‘… the fine concrete
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Editor’s welcome

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Sam Hewitt

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5th August 2016

Last month, in the You Were Asking pages, Richard Rosenthal dealt with the enquiry from a reader, Terence Worthington, selling
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CHECK BACK SOON FOR MORE COMPETITIONS

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Sam Hewitt

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12th July 2016

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A question of sport

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Sam Hewitt

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11th July 2016

When thinking of a sport to combine with football (or soccer to our American friends) the petrol-fuelled revelry of motorcycling
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Pretty special

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Sam Hewitt

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11th July 2016

This attractive 500cc replica of a Production TT winner started life as a 350cc Viper. Pretty special Wrapped up against
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Trying times

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Sam Hewitt

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11th July 2016

Have you ever been to a museum and wanted to ‘have a go’ on the exhibits? Now, the National Motorcycle
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Motorcycles dominate at the Land’s End Trial

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Sam Hewitt

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11th July 2016

Previously an event favoured equally by those of the two-, three- and four-wheeled persuasion, the 1953 Land’s End Trial was
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Vitesse with finesse

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Sam Hewitt

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11th July 2016

An exhaustive search led to the resurrection of an incredibly rare, but quite fabulous, model. Vitesse with finesse Though it
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