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New on AllMyReads: The Scrapbook Series – AJS

11th October 2019 Sam Hewitt Reviews

At its peak Associated Motor Cycle, the proprietor of AJS and Matchless was making 96 motorcycles a day, with 1,500 people employed. By any standards, that’s a big player in the industry. Though AMC did of course include other names – James, Francis-Barnett and for a time the likes of Norton and Sunbeam – it is AJS and Matchless which…

Island Racer 2019 – The go-to guide for this year’s TT action

1st May 2019 Sam Hewitt Reviews

The Isle of Man TT is just around the corner and you can find 148 pages of incredible TT action in the upcoming Island Racer 2019 edition, on sale from May 16, 2019. Island Racer 2019 is the ultimate guide to this year’s Isle of Man TT races. It includes in-depth coverage of the racers, the races, the legends and…

BRAND NEW BOOKAZINE TELLS THE STORY OF JOHN ‘MOON EYES’ COOPER

24th April 2019 Sam Hewitt Reviews Leave a comment

Our publishers, Mortons Media Group, have recently launched a bookazine titled ‘Moon Eyes’ edited by Richard Skelton, using an interview by motorcycling journalist Chris Carter with John ‘Moon Eyes’ Cooper. Motorcycle racer John ‘Moon Eyes’ Cooper found fame and success during the golden age of road racing in the late 1960s and early 1970s. From his youthful beginnings in the…

RealClassic Reading

8th November 2018 RowenaH Reviews Leave a comment

This book is the story of Albert Simpkin, a dispatch rider during the First World War. Experienced motorcyclists were required to deliver messages to senior officers during the conflict. Albert joined up and as soon as you became a dispatch rider (DR) you were promoted to Corporal; this rank enabled you to talk to officers. Some of the DRs he…

Deeley: Motorcycle Millionaire

30th April 2018 RowenaH Reviews Leave a comment

Over a century ago, a bicycle shop on Bromsgrove High Street sowed the seeds which would become Canada’s oldest Harley-Davidson dealership and a multi-generational family business to boot. Roger Slater recommends the book which tells the tale… The name Trevor Deeley in UK motorcycledom will mean nothing. In the United States, and the Pacific north-west in particular, Trevor Deeley is…

Moto Guzzi: Every Model Since 1921

23rd March 2018 RowenaH Reviews Leave a comment

An extensive list of every single civilian Moto Guzzi model manufactured over the course of nearly a century is going to produce a whopping book – and this is that volume. It starts with the single-cylindered Normale 500 and wraps up with 2017’s California 1400. In between, author Ian Falloon covers an awful lot of ground, much of it V-twin…