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Gerry Atric’s restoration of his 500cc twin continues, and we’ve discovered some other info about these bikes, too… While all the previously described work was going on, I had been regularly visiting autojumbles in an effort to find the missing pieces of the jigsaw, which might one day make up a complete bike (one with…

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It runs! Quick, take it to bits again! With a deadline in sight, Martin Gelder’s 1982 Moto Morini 350 Sport finally receives some much needed attention after sitting in the shed for two years… Progress! Well, progress of a sort, at least. Two years ago, I fried my Morini’s alternator windings by trying to fit…

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Lots of bits have come back, ready for assembly on Phil Speakman’s MZ rebuild. So he ventures into the Devil’s Kitchen and proves that you should never leave a man alone with a tube of strong adhesive… The first parts to return to me were the lovely gloss black powder coated frame components and to…

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Jim Algar’s Dominator Diary start here: the first (and hopefully not the last) of a sporadic, irregular series of reports, updates, musings, questions, tirades, victories and defeats as an American neophyte takes on his first classic British bike… Chapter One Wherein I immerse myself in all things Norton, and my newly-acquired Dominator suddenly reveals feet…

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If at first you don’t succeed (and indeed your Bantam conks out before it even leaves Europe), try, try, try again. And then write a book about the experience… When it comes to adventuring – and I don’t just mean motorcycle adventuring – there is an unspoken compact between the few-who-do, and the many. The…

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When we put together a feature for the magazine about the Seeley Honda 750 of the late 1970s, there were some photos which we didn’t have space for. And then, even more info arrived… The January 2006 issue of RealClassic magazine features two (count ’em!) examples of the Seeley breed – and one of them…

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After falling in love with the dream of a Beam, Steve The Toast finally bought an S8. The reality turned out to be just a little… leaky! Madness is said to run in families. It is thought to be genetic, but many other things can also bring it on; diets lacking in certain vitamins, over…

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All that glitters… is usually a pain in the posterior. And the pocket! David Rooney learned this lesson when he bought a beautiful-looking T20… You know those adverts, the ones which say; ‘just needs finishing’? Well, David Rooney knows all about them now, after being seduced by the charms of a shiny-shiny 1961 Tiger Cub.…

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So Dave had just taken his first ride on his rebuilt Triumph Tiger… and then he stopped to look at it. Ooops… After riding (on a bubblewrap seat) to the end of the road and back, I decided to let the engine run for a few minutes so that I could get the tickover adjusted…

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There’s a new hardback book available, covering the later models of Velocette singles in great depth. Rowena Hoseason enjoys turning the pages… Before ordering this weighty tome, any true Velo enthusiast should double check that there’s not already an earlier version of the text safely stashed on your bookshelf. This is the third edition of…

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