Ferrari Motorcycle Club Enzo and his band of bike racers Moto Guzzi Café Racer
A perfect blend of style and charisma
Triumph
3TA BMW R69s
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Replacing your mains bearings
Tony Rutter
‘He could win on anything’
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006 From the archive
Mr John Surtees shows you around Oulton Park
041 Douglas Dragonfly
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010 Ferrari motorcycle club 049 BMW R69s
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098 Frank Westworth
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022 News
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026 Products
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032 Triumph 3ta BUYING GUIDE
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The bike that saved BMW – Martin Squires’ gorgeous illustrations show the R69s
054 Tony Rutter
The man that could win on anything – Tony Rutter. We look at his life
060 Moto Guzzi Café Racer James Cracknell started with an alloy tank and ended up with a gorgeous café racer
068 Project Norton
We start to put the new mains bearings in
070 We’re still here!
CBG talks to the old bike world about how they are still open for business
074 Strip your forks pt1
Rebuilding your forks is satisfying, needs few special tools and your bike will feel a lot better
We look at BMW R100RS, Moto Guzzi Le Mans, Yamaha DT250, a trio of Norton ES2 and much more Frank’s locked up. Or is that in?
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Did Enzo Ferrari start in motorsport racing motorcycles? With Rudg ge? Greg g Pullen uses his detective skills to head back 90 years in the search of facts for this oft-asked question
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Enzo Ferrari with Euginio Castellotti, Monza 1956
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Buying guide
Triumph
3TA
WORDS BY OLI HULME PHOTOGRAPHY BY GARY CHAPMAN
WHAT IS IT?
Triumph’s first and smallest unit twin
GOOD POINTS?
The looks, the ride and the engine
BAD POINTS?
Some of the original Lucas parts were of variable quality and the early handling was a little unpredictable
COST?
Restoration project: Basketcase: £1500 plus) Good runner: £25004000 Concours/museum quality: £5000
Café
C Correcto James Cracknell turned his skills in restoring classic cars to this wonderful Moto Guzzi. Adam Bolton has a go and reports back, lucky man! PHOTOGRAPHY: SARA ZINELLI WORDS: ADAM BOLTON
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any riders, as in the past, have taken a standard motorcycle, maybe new, maybe old, and invested time, money and their ingenuity to produce a personal statement. A machine that – whatever its individual idiosyncrasies – immediately creates an impression of speed and purposefulness.’ Mike Clay’s words in his 1988 book ‘Café Racers’ explain eloquently and concisely the reason why beautiful motorcycles like the glimmering Guzzi in front of me exist at all. Café racers because these bikes were – and are – used for short, sharp speed trips from one legendary coffee bar to another. Places like The Ace Cafe, now of course once again a mecca for the rockers of today, The Busy Bee, Johnsons and the Dugout, all became watering holes and meeting places for the ton-up boys of the day. Stripped down Triumphs, BSAs and Nortons with clip-on ’bars and racing tanks were tools of choice for those who wanted to experience speed and make a personal statement at the same time. Individuals like Paul Dunstall and Dave Degens were the driving force of café racerdom in the 1960s, and rightly so, as café racers represent the individual, not the corporate monster. However, some factories felt compelled to produce their own café racers, and certain Ducati and Guzzi models in particular, such as the Ducati 750 Sport and the Guzzi V7 Sport arguably redefined nre. the gen
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