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HL lore

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Sam Hewitt

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20th January 2020

With reference to your Curtis story, Yamaha were never intimately involved in the HL project. Hallman and Lundquist initially experimented […]
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A Christmas wish list… from a Classic Dirt Bike editor

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Shannon Butcher

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3rd December 2019

Classic Dirt Bike editor Tim Britton, aged 59 ½, who’s been mostly good this year (he knows Santa checks and categorises into ‘naughty’ and ‘nice’ and the lists are viewed twice) shares his 2019 Christmas wish list.
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Original DID rims – warning

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Sam Hewitt

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12th November 2019

I have just read about the IT465 update and the sensible decision to fit new rims to the bike. Here […]
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A few pointers

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Sam Hewitt

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31st October 2019

As a seasoned IT owner and restorer/collector, (I’ve only been without an IT between the ages of 21 and 24, […]
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60 years ago

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Sam Hewitt

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2nd July 2019

An anniversary that seems to have been forgotten is Roy Peplow’s win in the 1959 SSDT, the first win of […]
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Hagon – the legend

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Sam Hewitt

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30th June 2019

I just want to comment what a great read the mag on Alf was. I’m disappointed I had no idea […]
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IT crowd

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Sam Hewitt

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25th June 2019

I see in the news last issue the IT465 is back on the go – you don’t say what the […]
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XR200R’s younger sibling

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Sam Hewitt

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13th June 2019

Having just flicked through the latest CDB, it seems we have another favourite bike in common, or nearly the same. […]
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Technically speaking

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Sam Hewitt

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16th May 2019

Technospeak crops up in many aspects of our lives. My column this issue was going to be about the insides […]
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Multi-use Triumph

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Sam Hewitt

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8th January 2019

My Triumph started life as a bathtub T100A from 1961, polychromatic blue.
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