Ultimate flying experience: Floatplanes on Lake Como
STANDING on the shore of Lake Como, you look around and see mountains. Great big lumps of rock coming right down to the water’s edge in places, with just a…
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Ten Great Classic Motorcycles for under £5000
The days of stumbling across a Vincent for the price of a family hatchback are long gone. Prices for the most desirable classics have risen steadily over the last decade,…
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Kawasaki GPz900R: Top Gun Legend That Changed Motorcycling
Some motorcycles are remembered for their technical brilliance. Others for their cultural impact. A select few, like Kawasaki’s GPz900R, manage both. It was the bike that rewrote the rulebook in…
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1928 BSA Sloper: A Jolly Green Giant is calling
There’s a certain quality and star status afforded classic motorcycles with girder forks. Partly it’s because many date from a ‘Golden Age’ of motorcycles when there were dozens of manufacturers…
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The Big Boat Question: Wood or Plastic?
“DO NOT BUY A WOODEN BOAT!” That was the stark warning from a lifelong mate with much more sailing experience than me. “Have you ever tried reversing a long keel…
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Review: Katbo 2-amp battery charger
One of the fun parts about running a motorcycle that’s been restored or rebuilt by someone else is the little things you discover after a few months of ownership. In…
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Bike Of The Week: Triumph TR5, The original ‘Trophy’
Over the years, Triumph has bandied around the name ‘Trophy’ willy-nilly. Sometimes it’s attached to a trail bike but more often to a tourer – as recently as 2017 –…
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Fifty? No, just one shade of grey for Venhill cables
Specialist cable maker Venhill has added a new grey colour option to its motorcycle speedo and tacho cable range. The Surrey company says it’s a discreet alternative to black cables…
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What the heck is a lugger?
All yachties will have heard the term ‘lugger’ but what is it? The term refers to the rig, ie, a lug sail, a four-cornered sail suspended from a spar, called…
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Wow! The Norton Commando is back
Blimey, is it really 50 years since I joined Motor Cycle News as a hugely enthusiastic but very inexperienced journalist? Yep, and my first week at the newspaper, then based…
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