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Different strokes for different folks. Frank Westworth remembers a great British stroker…

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Dave Wooding started his riding career with a Triumph 3T. He also rode a Bantam-based Villiers-engined oddity and a BSA B31, but it’s the Triumph 350 twin which he remembers the most fondly… Everyone remembers their first time, but how many have a photo of the event? I remember that for me it was on…

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This year – this week, in fact – there have been two competing motorcycle shows in London. Martin Gelder tries to pick a winner while making “vroom vroom” noises and bouncing on seats… The Ally Pally show sponsors MCN announced last year that the long established event at Alexandra Palace in North London would be…

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If you want to ride your classic bike roughshod, then you simply can’t beat the real thing! Frank Westworth’s been playing in the dirt… Before I say anything else, may I share with you my complete amazement when the AJS & Matchless OC, a very fine club (official) presented me with an award last year!…

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Roger Bibbings suggests that while speed itself may not kill, you don’t have to travel at 180mph to enjoy yourself on two wheels… Speed kills? Well, momentum increases as the square of velocity – so as speed increases the energy to be dissipated in a collision increases very rapidly indeed, more than is generally appreciated.…

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Power is knowledge, apparently. This may be important if you intend to own a BSA C15, as Frank Westworth explains… Knowledge, so they tell us, is power. They tell us this, whoever They are, and it sounds good, so it must be true. Which is how politics works, also political correctness, which is not the…

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If a bike from yesteryear was rubbish when it was a new bike, does that mean it’s still rubbish now it can claim to be a classic bike? Frank Westworth contemplates classicness and other fantasies… A man gazed at me in what may have been wonder. It may also have been fright, admiration or horror.…

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Old bike clubs are right at the core of the classic bike scene. Frank Westworth has belonged to many clubs, but wonders whether the excitement is all too much… Whenever I have paused to think about it, I have always wondered why bike clubs are so popular. Think about this. One of the reasons we…

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A little knowledge is supposed to be a dangerous thing. Frank Westworth has a little knowledge, but worries about those with less… Life is packed with famous last words. Also aphorisms, epithets and acronyms, all of which are the stuff of editorial nightmares; less of a concern if you are a higher being – not…

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What are journalists for? Should they always tell it as it is? Or as they see it? Frank Westworth fears a breakdown but Sandra Saves The Day… Did you enjoy last year’s great big Stafford Show? Me too. It appears to be part of our UK national character to concentrate on grumbling, so it is…

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