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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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In part I, Martin Gelder wrote off a BMW R60, then bought an R100S and rode round for a bit before writing that off as well. The story of Common Problems continues… Time passed. The crashed BMW languished under a green canvas cover in the front garden while a Mk1 Le Mans tried to take…

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Common fault No.37: Martin Gelder never throws anything away, ever. From the dusty shelves of obscurity comes this tale of a written off and rebuilt Boxer, and a list of funky foibles… BMW. Three letters that impress estate agents and middle-managers, but will have every shoulder-chipped 250 riding courier reciting a list of ‘common-faults’ that…

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A restoration project is a funny thing: it can offer immense personal satisfaction, and immense frustration and self-doubt, sometimes simultaneously. PaulG80 experienced all three while rebuilding Beatrice… This story begins in 1997 when I bought a ratty BMW boxer from a work chum. It was a R60/5 1973 model. I originally bought it as a…

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This high quality, limited edition book about the Ariel motorcycles of the late 1920s will only be available for a short while. Grab it while you can… The trouble with enthusiasm is that enthusiasm is infectious. Beware enthusiasts, lest you come away from sharing their world with a bad attack of sharing their enthusiasm. Sometimes…

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If you’re looking for a lightweight classic, you don’t have to be restricted to a two-stroke. Bill Wood has brought a little Italian back to life… While British lightweights of the 1960s tended to be utilitarian plodders (with an occasional sprinkling of excitement); their Italian counterparts were almost entirely the opposite. The Latin obsession with…

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