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    650 BSA SPITFIRE 1958

    Aug 26, 2019 5 minutes
    WORDS AND PHOTOGRAPHY: ROBERT DAVIES. MUCH THANKS TO: GRAHAM HORNE AND TONY COOPER

    HAVE YOU EVER GONE TO VIEW A motorcycle and then ended up looking at something completely different? I did that. I went along to Graham Horne’s to talk about the elusive, but mysterious, Ariel Square Four, but I spent most of the time talking about and photographing his BSA Spitfire.

    The Ariel – valuable and fascinating as it no doubt is – can wait for another day – it’s not going anywhere I mused. And for a few precious moments, in the relative quiet of the garage, I feasted my eyes on this glittering but beautiful machine with its bright red and chrome fuel tank. A fuel tank not like any other A10. And yes, I know what you’re thinking, this bike is just another incarnation of the ubiquitous A10 – and

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