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Just in time to celebrate Brooklands’ centenary, Jonathan Hill has found a splendid hardback book packed with rare images of racing from the 1920s… Published in 1968, Dr Joseph Bayley’s renowned book ‘The Vintage Years at Brooklands’ is a photographic record of motorcycle racing there in the 1920s. It reflected his years of observing and…

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A spoof on the Highway Code? Sounds great. But Jim Peace didn’t get too many laughs out of reading it… I use my local charity shop as a library. I buy a book or two, read them, and then give them back. This way I donate a few bob to Cancer Research, and don’t clutter…

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by Des Molloy Two travellers take a Panther 120 and a Norton Model 19 on a 10,000 mile trek along the old silk road. Did we find the book more enjoyable than the DVD?… The preamble suggests that The Last Hurrah is an epic tale of an heroic adventure, undertaken by two chaps of a…

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by Paul Grace If you have a big pile of bits which could possibly be built into an Enfield off-roader, and no experience of riding in classic scrambles whatsoever, then it seems only natural to take on a classic motocross challenge. Anarchy did just that, and then he wrote a book about it… Before saying…

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If you’re a fan of Triumph motorcycles, then you’ll enjoy this authorised biography of the man behind the brand, written by motorcycle historian Jeff Clew… This is a new, softback edition of Jeff Clew’s detailed biography which was published a few years ago in hardback and with a slightly different title (you might want to…

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Looking for an introduction to Norton twins? Marc Reibman has just the book for you (although he may be just a teeny bit biased on the subject – decide for yourself!) I know it’s hard for Commando types to believe, but Norton twins were in existence long before the Commando was even a twinkle in…

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Replacing a Triumph Bonneville clutch shouldn’t be too ghastly an enterprise. Yet, as NVNL discovered, there are always some questions to which the answers are not immediately apparent… ‘Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; ……… The best lack all convictions, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.’ William Butler Yeats With all the…

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Our Cornish correspondent, NVNL, turns his attention to a minor mechanical matter on his Triumph Bonneville. Well, it started out as being ‘minor’. Honest… ‘Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; ……… The best lack all convictions, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.’ William Butler Yeats Sometimes even on the brightest and best…

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In the August06 issue of the magazine, Ozboy introduced us to a little baby Beemer, an ohv 250cc single. Now David Bullivant expounds on the subject and makes some suggestions about how to get the best from a little BeeEmm… One of the main reasons for the R25’s lack of sales success in Britain when…

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Okay, it leaks a bit of oil, and the front brake isn’t up to modern traffic, and there’s a bit of a stumble off idle, and that screen has got to go, and, and… Martin Gelder, his new BMW R80/7, and true happiness… It all started in the summer of 1980, and I blame Eddie’s…

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