Motorcycle Classics

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 Join the Southern California Norton Owners Club for “the best ride by a dam site,” the Hansen Dam Ride. Now in its 43rd year, the ride is a great way to spend a day enjoying classic motorcycles. Recent years have seen more than 500

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Saved By The Commando
Dennis Poore watched with relish as Associated Motor Cycles began imploding under a mountain of debt. In 1960, AMC, the giant conglomerate that included Matchless, AJS, Norton, Francis-Barnett and James, had turned a profit of £219,000 but a year lat
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Tin Banana
1950’s West Germany was a nation in flux. It struggled with the aid of a $1.39 billion handout from the U.S. via the Marshall Plan (equivalent to $24 billion today) to recover from the internal depredations of warfare brought about by Adolf Hitler’s
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BMW R Nine T Scrambler
In motorcycling, the product term “scrambler” has long been a marketing tactic, albeit an exciting one. “Scrambling” exploded in Europe after World War II, when few — if any — off-road or dirt-specific models even existed. Instead, daring and determi

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