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Matchless G11: out of the archive!

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RowenaH

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23rd March 2020

It’s not the most fashionable of British twins, but the 600cc Matchless has a lot going for it, said Neil Thomas… Christmas came early that year and Santa delivered a rather fine 600cc parallel twin in the shape of a 1957 Matchless G11. Sarah and Neil ran a tour business in Provence at the time.…
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BSA B44SS: out of the archive!

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RowenaH

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21st March 2020

Adrian Hughes always wanted a café racer so he built one from scratch, hoping for a cheap, fast-finish project. Well, at least part of the plan worked … My B44 was built entirely from bits and pieces which were purchased from various sources around the country. I have always wanted a café racer, so I…
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Filtering Through Traffic

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RowenaH

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12th March 2020

Half an hour after the first traffic jam ever formed, you can bet an old bike chuffed past the stationery cars to reach the front of the queue. Yet for many years the practice wasn’t acknowledged in road regulations. Neil Cairns has scoured his old Highway Codes, to find out when – if indeed ever…
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Triumph Speed Twin

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RowenaH

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25th February 2020

You never know what you’ll find at your local bike show. Roy Workman discovered an award-winning pre-war Triumph twin at Sleaford, which reminded him of his own time with a Tiger… At last year’s Sleaford Classic Car and Motorcycle Show, I spotted the immaculate 1938 Triumph Speed Twin you can see here. It had been…
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A Classic Ride

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RowenaH

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20th February 2020

Do you need a modern motorcycle to go touring? Hardly. Mark Redfern and his pals from the Vintage Japanese Motorcycle Club take a selection of classic Hondas on a whistlestop tour to the Continent… One winter, the riders of the Taunton and Bridgwater section of the VJMC concocted a plan to visit the Menin Gate…
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Generation Gap

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RowenaH

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12th February 2020

What does the hobby of model kit building have to do with classic bike riding? Harley Richards explains what they have in common – and suggests that we should stop worrying so much about it… ‘If we don’t get some younger faces in here soon, I don’t know how much longer this has got.’ Chances…
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Allen Millyard to take star role at London Classic Bike Show at Kempton

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Sam Hewitt

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27th November 2019

It’s the turn of rare bikes, a bustling autojumble and a very special guest at the London Classic Bike Show in Kempton on December 7.
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1960 Bianchi Bernina 125cc

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Sam Hewitt

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28th October 2019

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…
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Benelli 900 Sei

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Sam Hewitt

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14th October 2019

Sold at the time as ‘the Italian Alternative’, this six-cylinder superbike from the 1970s still offers something radically different for the classic bike connoisseur…
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Triumph TSX Shock Shrouds Back In Stock

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RowenaH

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20th September 2019

Among classic British bikes, Meriden’s venerable unit twins have perhaps the greatest range of parts still available at a reasonable price. That goes a long way towards explaining why the later T120s, T140s and TR7s make such straightforward restoration projects. However, Triumph’s rarer models have a nasty habit of using parts made from pure unobtanium,…
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