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Social Distance
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Radical bikes, bikes that push the boundaries, these days are few and far between. Back in the ‘70s, ‘80s and ‘90s there were many built but, as we’ve moved slowly and inexorably further into the 21st Century, that trend’s slowed almost to a stop…
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V4 Fireblade?
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Honda is continually registering new patents for the V4, such as cylinder deactivation and a reverse rotating crankshaft – similar to Ducati’s. Honda’s V4 with load-sensing cylinder deactivation may not be a new invention, having been patented as early as 2013 in Japan and the USA. Only recently in 2021, did it receive patent protection…
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Cost Effective Classics – Honda CB750 F2N
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Four pots, good looks and reliability, all for under four grand! Even if you’re not into classic bikes, you’ll know about the legendary Honda 750/4, the world’s first true superbike. Launched in 1969, it rewrote the rules and swiftly made four-cylinder motorcycles the norm. Honda would go one to deliver liquid-cooled V fours that utterly…
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Green Monster
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Nik gets up close with a legend – Dutch’s very, very long, very, very green behemoth of a bike.
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Hydrogen Future?
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Honda team up with General Motors Honda and General Motors are the latest firms to reveal plans to get stuck into some hydrogen fuel cell research – and we’re here for it. With the increasingly urgent need for emissions-free vehicles, we’ve started to see more and more battery-powered machines making it to market. But there’s…
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Rare Breed, revisited!
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Far back in the mists of ancient time (well, 1991 anyway), in issue 167 of this very magazine, Rich King, erstwhile photographer/scribe of this parish, went to see a guy named Nigel from Lincolnshire about his really rather stunning long, low, blue DOHC 750 Honda chop called Rare Breed.
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Golden Oldie – BSA Gold Star 650 Test Ride
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After a nearly 40-year hiatus, one of the most important names in British motorcycling kickstarted its revival with a new version of its most celebrated model: the Gold Star. To put it through its paces properly, we took the chance to ride it at the top-secret Millbrook Proving Ground across its extensive cross-section of test…
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Bike industry asks UK government for more time to work on decarbonisation
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Planned 2035 cut-off for all petrol-powered motorcycles is too soon for manufacturers, claims MCIA
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‘Tracker Tribulations
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This Bonnie belonged to one of my best mates, Dave Robbo, for years, and it sat in the corner of his workshop in a part-disassembled condition. He’d bought it in 1984 when it was just two years old, and’d used it to go all over the country to rallies, as well as being a daily…
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Foggy!
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Thirty years on from his first World Superbike race win, Carl Fogarty remains one of Britain’s best-loved bikers. So what made him so good on a bike and so beloved by race fans? And how did he manage to transcend the relatively niche sport of bike racing to become a household name?
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