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THE TRIP OUT
IT ONLY SEEMS LIKE A FEW YEARS AGO WHEN I SAW THE ADS APPEARING FOR A NEW CHOPPER THEMED SHOW.
SUZUKI KATANA LONG-TERM TEST
IT’S A FUNNY OLD WORLD, ISN’T IT? LAST YEAR I HAD ONE OF SUZUKI’S NEW KATANAS TO PLAY WITH FOR A COUPLE OF WEEKS, AND WHILE I DID ENJOY RIDING IT (IT’S A STATE-OF-THE-ART NEW BIKE FROM ONE OF THE BIG FOUR JAPANESE MANUFACTURERS AFTER ALL), IT WASN’T QUITE RIGHT…
RAT LOOK MONSTER
USUALLY, WHEN PEOPLE TALK OF AIR SUSPENSION, AND HUGE POINT WHEELS, THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT US-STYLE BAGGERS - USUALLY, BUT NOT ALWAYS...
MILITARY SPEC...
SOME BIKE BUILDS GO BACK YEARS, AND SOME JUST TAKE YEARS TO GET FEATURED. THE TWO FIT BOTH THOSE CATEGORIES…
CTHULHU LIVES!
I DUNNO, YOU'RE MINDING YOUR OWN BUSINESS AT A BIKE SHOW, AND SOME DREADLOCKED WEIRDO COMES UP AND STARTS RAVING ABOUT YOUR BIKE...
Retro Brown
AS YOU MIGHT HAVE GUESSED ROM THE ARTICLE ON MY RED SHOVELHEAD (LAST ISSUE - BACK ISSUES ARE AVAILABLE FROM THE BSH WEBSITE AT WWW.BACKSTREETHEROES.COM), I'VE BEEN BUILDING CUSTOM HARLEYS FOR A GOOD WHILE NOW.
DEDICATION...
IF YOU READ ISSUE 431 A COUPLE O’ THREE ISSUES AGO, YOU’LL’VE SEEN THE REALLY RATHER GORGEOUS FENLAND CHOPPERS-FRAMED TRIUMPH SPEEDMASTER BUILT BY MELV EXTON. WELL, THESE TWO BIKES ARE ALSO HIS, AND THEY WERE BUILT BEFORE THE BOBBER SO LET ME TAKE YOU BACK IN TIME… CUE THE WORLD GOING ALL SWIMMY AND WHOOSH-WHOOSY NOISES.
CLUB: FORTYFIVERS MC
THE FORTYFIVERS MC IS AN INVITATIONAL CLUB OF OWNERS, RIDERS AND BUILDERS OF VINTAGE H-D FLATHEADS FOUNDED IN THE UK, BUT WITH A GLOBAL MEMBERSHIP REACHING AS FAR AS JAPAN, AUSTRALIA, SOUTH AFRICA, ARGENTINA, THE USA AND EUROPE.
Whine and roses
It’s not the 800hp on offer that attracted Adam Kilmurray to a tune-up for his R560 V8 Topline but the sound from the exhaust – and he got it by going Greek
Little and large
Time to dig out the thermals for a test of big Scania rigs in Norway and the opportunity to try the new 540 13-litre engine, a straight-six alternative to the mighty V8
Take it EC
He’s got three ERFs ready to go to work, and a growing reputation for restoring them. For Robert Gassor only the EC way will do.
Send for the Bill
With over 40 years on the road, Billy Ford has seen huge changes in the transport industry and he’s adapted his business to suit
MAN for all seasons
Last month, MAN launched its new truck range at a lavish press event held in Bilbao, Northern Spain as part of a rolling series of events that will showcase the heavily revised range to customers, factory and dealer staff over a number of weeks. The new trucks will replace the existing models from 7.5 to 250 tonnes GVW in due course and represents a major step forward for the German manufacturer
In sickness and in health
Sickness is a very real issue for employers. According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), in a 2018 publication, Sickness absence in the UK labour market: 2018, an estimated 141.4 million working days were lost in a year because of sickness or injury in the UK, the equivalent to 4.4 days per worker
Keep calm and carry on
It’s been a trying month thus far, not really knowing what’s around every corner, figuratively and literally. Since that first briefing on lockdown and the essential transport message, it seems now that all cargo became essential pretty much overnight.
Keep on tipping
Brian Markey started driving for Moreton C Cullimore in 1963, and he’s still going strong today behind the wheel of his Scania P380 tipper. T&D travelled to Gloucester to meet him
Farm Cat
When Peter Gammie decided his farm needed a lorry to haul their produce, he figured he’d just buy something British and tidy it up a bit...
How To Keep Riding With Zwift
Keep the wheels turning and emerge fitter and faster from the lockdown
Bricking it
Jessica Grainger buys an old Premium and takes to the road as an owner-driver, but it proves a costly exercise…
Wishin' and Hopin'
Here, in his own words, Johnny Seagul explains how he got into American cars, rock ’n’ roll and acquired this simply magnificent 1958 Ford Skyliner, after literally years of wishin’, hopin’ and searchin’…
LIFETIME COMPANION
Zack Stiling tracks down a relative rarity in the shape of a 1932 Ford Model 18 Victoria that might even have a royal connection, but has been in one man’s possession for more than 40 years!
HISTORICS
Royal Ascot, Berkshire March 7
Golden Generation - 1951 Pontiac Chieftain Streamliner Deluxe
If you love the fins of the later Fifties, sleek and superbly usable cars like this 1951 Pontiac Streamliner Deluxe are waiting to convert you to the previous generation.
DiDia 150
If you have no idea what the DiDia 150 is (see what we did there?!) Richard Heseltine is here to enlighten you on this thoroughly wonderful, thoroughly bonkers automotive creation!
ACE OF BASE
Andy Green’s 1976 Mercury Marquis is a low-mileage and very original example of how even the base model cars were luxurious in the Seventies.
Cars or commodities?
Evans looks at the impact of auction sales on the old car market stateside and whether classics are becoming simply another investment vehicle...
1959 Thunderbird
This month Tony salutes one of Ford’s most successful models, the Thunderbird, with a special look at the second generation square birds…
1957 Ford Thunderbird
Vendor: Peter Hind, Hatfield, HertfordshireTelephone: 01707 268863Price: £32,999
Car Plants To Build Ventilators
US president Donald Trump wants automakers to work with healthcare providers to build ventilators in some of their shut-down automotive factories.
Powerscene
Our authoritative class-by-class review of newsworthy locomotive workings.