Category: Features

Triumph Motorcycles report record sales

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Five new models in the Triumph line-up give the British bike builder a boost, increasing sales, revenue and profits across the board… Triumph Motorcycles has announced its financial results for its last fiscal year which ended 30th June 2017. Now operating in more than 57 countries around the world, Triumph grew global revenues by a hefty 22%, adding £90.9 million…
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Norton International

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The December magazine featured a fabulous cammy Norton, a Model 30 500. There wasn’t space in print to show off the super old images to best effect, so here they are in glorious web-o-vision – together with the background to the model in case you’re not familiar with it… Before the Inter came the cammy CS1 The International was introduced…
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Moto Guzzi V7

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Although Motorcycle Live at the NEC majors on modern motorcycles, the odd classic bike sneaks in here and there. RC’s roving reporter Richard Jones discovered an authentic Moto Guzzi V-twin, and then fell over its modern equivalent… I was wandering out of the NEC one evening after a hard days graft at Motorcycle Live when I spied, in the distance,…
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Honda Black Bomber

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In 1968 Soichiro Honda rode his firm’s 10 millionth motorcycle off the production line. That bike was the ground-breaking CB450 Black Bomber – notable not least for its use of novel valvegear with torsion-bars ‘springs’ in its top end. It wasn’t long before racers transformed the CB streetbike into a world class competitor, and the Drixton Honda was born. They’re…
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Royal Enfield Interceptor

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Several manufacturers showcased models at this winter’s Motorcycle Live exhibition which seek to recreate the classic bikes from their marque’s glory days of yesteryear. Richard Jones inspects several of them on our behalf – along with some other retro offerings – and gets the ball rolling with the long-awaited big twin from India…. In mid-1970 the last Series II Interceptor…
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BSA B50

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A couple of months ago, our Ace Tester Paul Miles rode and reported on an excellently upgraded BSA B50SS. Paul reckoned it definitely deserved its Gold Star designation. No sooner had that magazine been delivered than international man of mystery Frank Melling popped up, expounding exactly the opposite opinion. Here’s Frank’s view of the B50, as it was when it…
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