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  • Deeley: Motorcycle Millionaire

    Deeley: Motorcycle Millionaire

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    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…

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  • Readers’ Rides: a Guzzi gallop, Part The Last

    Readers’ Rides: a Guzzi gallop, Part The Last

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    Nick Adams has been riding the unpaved logging roads through Quebec’s forests on his Moto Guzzi Nuovo Falcone. Would a modern adventure motorcycle have been a better choice of two-wheeled transport for this trip? As with the road to Parent, the 120 miles of road between Parent and La Tuque was a well maintained gravel…

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  • Readers’ Rides: a Guzzi gallop, Part Two

    Readers’ Rides: a Guzzi gallop, Part Two

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    Last time, Nick Adams set off on his Moto Guzzi Falcone 500 for a quick spin around the logging roads of Quebec. This time, the traffic comes closer than is entirely comfortable… Parent is a typical, small, isolated railway village: a scattering of houses and public buildings bisected by the railway, the heart and focus…

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  • Readers’ Rides: a Guzzi gallop, Part One

    Readers’ Rides: a Guzzi gallop, Part One

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    Moto Guzzi’s Nuovo Falcone is a solidly put-together 500 single. It’s far from fast, but it’s famous for going on forever. That’s just as well. When RC’s Canadian correspondent, Nick Adams, goes for a ‘short trip’ on the unpaved roads around Quebec, the miles soon mount up… Whenever I ride the Nuovo Falcone I’m always…

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