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Cost-effective classics! Suzuki GT250
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Suzuki’s GT250 – well worth a look! Steve Cooper investigates.. Back when learners could ride 250s the market was hugely competitive. Everyone had a favourite and for a variety of reasons but there’s no denying which bike sold in the greatest numbers – Suzuki’s GT250. At the height of the 1970s more GT250s were sold…
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Start your engine (just because you can)
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Built like a gun? Maybe, and from £4279 the new Classic 350 may have hit the target
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Lucky Seven! Sheene’s winning machine at Bonhams Stafford Sale
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A Manx Norton ridden by motorcycling great Barry Sheene to victory in his last winning race will be one of the stars at Bonhams Autumn Stafford Sale on 15/16 October.
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THE LEGENDARY TRIUMPH DAYTONA AT THE BRITISH MOTOR MUSEUM
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From the original race bike that inspired and created the Triumph Daytona name, through to Triumph’s recent and most significant Daytona 765 Moto2™ Limited Edition, the British Motor Museum announces the largest Triumph Daytona exhibition yet, displayed at the temple of British Motor engineering. One of the most iconic and legendary motorcycle models of all…
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First Ride! BSA Gold Star 650
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After a brief ride taking in some tight town action and some wider open alpine-style twisties, the newly reintroduced BSA Gold Star 650 has impressed. It’s comfortable, surprisingly agile and has enough poke from its free-revving (and surprisingly smooth) single cylinder engine for the kind of relaxed riding its designed for. That said, it’s plenty…
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Herald confirms production-ready Brute 500
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The ‘first British designed, engineered and manufactured motorcycle’ from Cambridgeshire-based Herald Motor Company is now on sale. Herald has gone from strength to strength over the past few years since its inception in 2012, as it continues to turn out an extensive range of retro-styled 125cc, 250cc and 400cc motorcycles that hark back to the…
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New colours, and names, for Triumph’s modern classics range
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For model year 2023 Triumph have announced new colour options for the entire Bonneville range, building on the great success of last year’s Gold Line Editions, which responded to customer requests for brighter, more distinctive, and more elegant colour options across the legendary Modern Classics line-up. These new colours come hand-in-hand with a change of…
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A RECORD BREAKING EVENT FOR THE DISTINGUISHED GENTLEMAN’S RIDE 2022
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On May 22nd, The Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride took place all over the world, breaking all fundraising records from the previous events. After two years of social distancing and solo riding, The Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride took place worldwide in its pre-covid format, breaking all previous editions’ fundraising records. On Sunday 5th June, when the fundraising closed,…
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Norton: £100m investment received
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Indian automotive giant TVS Motors has just invested £100 million in Norton Motorcycles. TVS bought the Norton brand back in April 2020, following its collapse at the hands of previous owner Stuart Garner. And things have been looking up since, with Norton opening a brand spanking new, state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Solihull, which shows just…
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Fun! life on a Ducati single-cylinder scrambler
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“A joyous backroad or urban tool” says James Robinson… read more: Sometimes, when one climbs aboard a motorcycle, one knows it’s going to be just right. That was the feeling I had when Colin Jansen left me to play with his 350cc Ducati Scrambler. I knew I was going to have a ball. When I…
