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Hammer Time: Auction Preview

11th July 2021 RowenaH Events, Features, News

The next interesting auction of classic motorcycles takes place on Saturday 24 July at Cheffins’ saleground at Sutton near Ely, CB6 2QT. The Cheffins catalogue is always worth browsing – the listings are detailed and well-informed, and provide a lot of background information specific to the machine which is going under the hammer. This is a lot more useful than…

Vintage To Voltage: a two-wheeled adventure

20th August 2018 RowenaH Features

This autumn, two pioneering spirits will set off on two very different motorcycles on what might turn out to be a wild ride between London and Paris. While one of them will ride a cutting-edge electric-powered machine which comes with all mod cons, the other will be quite literally taking the rough (plenty of it) with the smooth (not so…

Trusty Triumph

22nd October 2017 RowenaH Features

While we celebrate the resurgence of modern Triumph motorcycles, it’s easy to overlook the marque’s major contribution to motorcycling itself which took place over a hundred years ago. Had it not been for Triumph’s first ‘era of greatness’, argues Timothy Pickering, the powered two-wheeler could have vanished from Britain’s roads long before the classic bike was invented… Frank Melling’s otherwise…

Triumph 350 sidevalve single

6th January 2017 RowenaH Features

Back in 1938 all eyes were on Triumph’s latest innovation, the stunning Speed Twin parallel twin. The marque’s sporting singles had also been sprinkled with Edward Turner’s stardust, and many heads were turned by the handsome Tigers. But most working men selected their regular rides from the ‘De Luxe’ end of the range; the long-lived, solid singles which could…