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Month: October 2019

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Ducati 916: Tamburini’s masterpiece – Ducati’s saviour

October 25, 2019

What makes a classic? The striking beauty of Massimo Tamburini’s design is simply breathtaking, but sheer beauty is not enough to make any machine an instant legend. But in this case, underneath the svelte exterior […]

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Zen, Motorcycles, and the Metaphysics of Quality

October 24, 2019

What is it about motorcycling that makes us so passionate about it? Sure we have our different tribes: Harley owners, Ducatisti, Adventure Bikers, Café Racers, etc. But it doesn’t matter which tribe you belong to, […]

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Triumph’s last gasp: the abandoned Bandit

October 18, 2019

Besieged and battered they may have been, but Triumph’s boffins could see that the middleweights were the way of the future. With the Bandit and its badge-brother the BSA Fury, they were on the right track, but… In the early 1970s, the world […]

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Vincent Black Lightning: The prize fighter

October 11, 2019

The Vincent Black Lightning is perhaps the most revered motorcycle in the world. Just a handful exist, and this one still carries the grime from countless battles under its mudguards. 5,000 miles on the clock, […]

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The Tipperary Flying Mile – half a century on

October 4, 2019

September 28-29, 2019 marked sixty-two years since the BP-C.O.R. Speed Tests on a dusty, blustery country road in outback NSW. The occasion passed without any official celebration, but the story is as incredible as ever. […]

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