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Great Things Are Afoot. Is Frank Westworth really going to sell a classic bike? Or even two classic bikes? Stranger things have happened. But not many… It’s all true. Although I hate selling bikes, and although I am absolutely no use at all when bikes need to be sold, I am going to change things around in The Shed. This…

It’s sometimes easy to get carried away with AJS and Matchless CSR twins and comp singles, but there’s lots of charm in something a little less exotic. Frank Westworth has been rediscovering gentle charm… As you might already know, I earn what passes for a living in the deep South-West by writing about old bikes. I know, I know; it’s…

Just when you thought you’d avoided the carol singers, Paul Goff presents the Twelve Days Of Classic Biking Christmas… Paul says; ‘I first heard this at a Three Spires rally near Coventry in 1977 or 78, sung by a bike club from up north somewhere.’ The Twelve Days Of Classic Biking Christmas On the first day of Christmas my true…

When it comes to living with classic AJS and Matchless motorcycles, a wise man might learn from his mistakes. Frank Westworth is plainly no wise man… I’ve been trying to work out how many AMC twins I’ve owned over the years. And no, before you collapse in horror at the sheer self-indulgent time-wasting nonsense of such an exercise, it’s because…

It was a dark and stormy night at the very end of the year. Roy Warren completes his story as midnight approaches and Eddie, our hero, has just been knocked unconscious ()… A dull pain in the back of Eddie’s head seemed to slowly increase in intensity as he opened his eyes. For a few seconds his brain refused to…

What did lads get up to, back when BSA Bantams were the motorcycle of choice for youthful despatch riders in the City of London? Daniel Hicks spins a story which might have a sniff of the truth in it… The old man paused and craned his neck as he approached the ancient Egyptian monument. For so many years he had…