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Feature: Triumph Motorcycles Factory Tour, Hinckley, U.K.
1 year ago

Feature: Triumph Motorcycles Factory Tour, Hinckley, U.K.

Ever wonder how your motorcycles are constructed? If you find yourself in the U.K., Triumph Motorcycles is one of the only major manufacturers that offer a proper, fully open-to-the-public factory …
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Bear Tracks: Top Ten Motorcycling Riding Roads In The World
1 year ago

Bear Tracks: Top Ten Motorcycling Riding Roads In The World

It’s all very well to write about wonderful motorcycle roads all over the planet, but you inevitably come up against a limit. You simply haven’t ridden all of the wonderful …
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TBT Feature: John Britten, New Zealand’s Engineering Genuis
1 year ago

TBT Feature: John Britten, New Zealand’s Engineering Genuis

The words ‘genius’ and tragedy’ are often overstated, but it is beyond question that John Britten was an engineering genius, and that his death from skin cancer in September 1995, …
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Racer Test: YZ450F based Yamaha YZ450GP racer
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1 year ago

Racer Test: YZ450F based Yamaha YZ450GP racer

I’m a fan of small racebikes like this YZ450GP. I love 250 two-strokes, 125 two-strokes – even though I don’t fit on them – and loved my own little RSX550 …
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Feature: Tour Of The New Norton Factory In Solihull, U.K.
1 year ago

Feature: Tour Of The New Norton Factory In Solihull, U.K.

Norton’s recent history has been an extremely rocky one for the British marque. Essentially revived from the rubble by Indian motorcycle giant TVS, they’re on the road to recovery. I …
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Bear Tracks: Getting Out Of Melbourne
1 year ago

Bear Tracks: Getting Out Of Melbourne

No, I do not subscribe to the idea that the best thing about Melbourne is the Hume Highway leading north to Sydney. In fact, the eight years I spent living …
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Bear Tracks: Staying Safe Riding In The Summer Heat
1 year ago

Bear Tracks: Staying Safe Riding In The Summer Heat

Yes, summer is coming… and who would have thought that phrase would ever acquire the such a threatening tone. Australian riders have it tough when it comes to riding in …
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Bear Tracks: USA’s Scenic Byways
1 year ago

Bear Tracks: USA’s Scenic Byways

I headed out to check out the famous National Parks in the USA. For motorcyclists, the ideal way to enjoy these parks as well as a lot of other wonderful …
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Throwback Thursday: Record Breaking Brough Superior Baby Pendine 750
1 year ago

Throwback Thursday: Record Breaking Brough Superior Baby Pendine 750

Brough Superior, founded in 1919, was the so-called Rolls-Royce of Motorcycles, the manufacturer of the world’s fastest, most desirable and exclusive motorcycles in the pre-WW2 era. Just days after the …
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MIRA Files: Putting The Motorcycles Of 1973 To The Test
1 year ago

MIRA Files: Putting The Motorcycles Of 1973 To The Test

Europe was going through dramatic changes with their motorcycle manufacturing in 1973, Japan had well and truly proved that they could match and best the bikes of the Western world. …
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