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It’s in one piece and ready to ride. Phil Speakman does the unthinkable, and actually concludes a rebuild saga. Steady on, Phil… Beep beep, beep beep beep beep… I felt like throwing my phone through the window at 7am on Saturday morning, but I’d only myself to blame for feeling like I did. I could…

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Phil Speakman considers relativity, a brief history of time, and the benefits of an opposable thumb… It’s funny stuff, time. It never seems to go how you expect it should. Sometimes it races along and other times draws onward interminably. I often wonder what happens during those ‘Oh noooooooooo I’m about to crash’ moments when…

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Lots of bits have come back, ready for assembly on Phil Speakman’s MZ rebuild. So he ventures into the Devil’s Kitchen and proves that you should never leave a man alone with a tube of strong adhesive… The first parts to return to me were the lovely gloss black powder coated frame components and to…

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Phil Speakman has stripped down his MZ, ready to start restoring it to glory — which involves lots of decisions. To shot blast, sand blast or vapour blast? What sort of finish to opt for? And does copper really have the devil in it…? Once the strip down of my 1972 MZ ES250/2 Trophy was…

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Phil Speakman started what should have been a straightforward crank rebuild on his stroker, then suffered a strange interlude with aromatic hair care products. Then the whole job went up in the world… The last time I took my MZ ES250/2 Trophy out for a spin, half of Cheshire disappeared under an acrid black cloud.…

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‘What I did on my summer holidays’. Rebuilding a real classic two stroke single almost earned KarlB an A*, but smoking is not permitted on school grounds… I was going to rebuild the original motor for my MZ ES150, but another MZ TS250 Supa 5 came along and as that needed paintwork doing outside, or…

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It’s Bonfire Night, so what better time to catch up with the second instalment of PaulG80’s Diary of a Sadman. Time to start making a big pile of bits; anyone got a light? Right then where were we? Ah yes. I remember now. I had just finished with the first part of this series… in…

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Seeking a winter project, PaulG80 sought something… unusual, and settled on a two-stroke export from the old East Germany. The first part, then of the Diaries of a Sadman… OK. Let’s get it all over with. I’ve bought a 1976 MZ TS 250/1. Finished laughing yet? Good. Right let’s start at the beginning. I had…

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Are you ready to rock? Rowena Hoseason has discovered a collection of motorcycle songs which will probably be the Next Big Thing, go live on stage in a West End musical and end up being filmed in Hollywood with Tom Cruise taking the lead role. Or not… We’re not averse to a spot of musical…

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Nolan Woodbury meets 25 classics from the Ducati Museum, immortalised in this high-class publication… Comparatively small measured against its competition, Ducati has forged an astonishing record on the global road racing stage. Shunning trend (while establishing it) in favour of its 90-degree L-layout, Ducati combined hi-torque, high-horsepower desmodromics with precise handling to win against heavily-funded…

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