The Classic MotorCycle

Old style Barry

If there was ever a motorcycle racer who defined the 1970s, it was Barry Sheene. Just like his Formula 1 car contemporary and fellow 1976 world champion James Hunt, the fast-living, long-haired playboys couldn’t have come from any other period, really.

In 1977, the Queen celebrated her Silver Jubilee, an occasion marked most obviously in the motorcycling world by Triumph launching its Silver Jubilee Bonneville, a

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