Category: Reviews

Moto Guzzi: Every Model Since 1921

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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…
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Lois On The Loose

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A modern-day motorcycle adventurer, Lois Pryce has crossed continents and survived all manner of mayhem to tell the tale — in fact, to tell three tales. Roger Slater has endured sleepless nights, reading her books… One of my ways of judging a good book is observing how far along the page marker is. If I smile when the marker is…
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The Classic Motoring Review

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Shock! Horror! These vintage vehicles have more than two wheels! If that gives you a complete conniption fit then you’d better move along, nothing to see here which won’t give you immediate apoplexy. However, if you harbour an admiration for classic cars as well as old bikes, and enjoy reading full-length articles with lots of words in them, then The…
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Two-Wheeled Blitzkrieg

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The motorcycle played an essential role during WW2 on all fronts. Among the soldiers of the Third Reich, motorcycles served a variety of functions: couriers, reconnaissance, medical evacuation, assault shock troops taking the brunt of battle, even as tank destroyers and delivering hot meals to the frontline. This book features the BMW, NSU, DKW and Zündapp machines – photographed by…
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Around The World On A Motorcycle

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Ready for another armchair adventure? This travellers’ tale goes back 90 years to the era between the world wars, when the urge for international exploration led two young men to ride more than 100,000 miles aboard a flat-tank Harley and sidecar. Roger Slater has been reading of their exploits… I have one bedroom in the house converted to a library.…
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Lone Rider: around the world by BMW

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Back in the early 1980s, Elspeth Beard took her broken heart, packed up her BMW airhead boxer, and rode it the ‘wrong way’ around the world. The entire astonishing story has recently been published, and it’s wowing RC readers… I love travelogues, ‘round the world’ trip even more. Was Elspeth Beard truly the first British woman to ride around the…
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