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Posted: Wed Sep 10th, 2008 11:29 pm |
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A mate dropped off a pile of 70s/80's bike mags...
CB, June '85
- Project Triton
- How it works; The Magneto
hahahahahahaha
Intersting that 23 years ago a magneto would cost £70 to have fixed vs £200 now and m/c lifts were more expensive than they are now. Hurrah for globalisation (just kidding  )
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Posted: Thu Sep 11th, 2008 07:05 pm |
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get the previous month, see how they bottled out of project harris last time 
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Posted: Fri Sep 12th, 2008 02:10 am |
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Hi Guys
try buying original Bike Mag etc on ebay for the road tests they gave you real information on bikes. not some journo's flowery illiteration on the manufacturers blurb.
I hate the modern new bike comics, Tune your suspension article which tells you to set it to manufacturers setting for average weight. vv4nker$
CB you are doing fine by me, classic racer is a pretty damn fine read too.
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Posted: Fri Sep 12th, 2008 07:22 am |
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| I have just actually put a load of the 'Bike' mags out for the recycling. I had a flick through and there is so little in them. So far every CB has had something in it that has made it worth saving. Thought about putting the others on eBay, but frankly can't be arsed...
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Posted: Fri Sep 12th, 2008 11:46 am |
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| The last issue of Bike was pretty good. The article on the Holister riots was interesting as was all the stuff about racers of yore and the history of the bike jacket. Any of those pieces would've been good for CB to be honest. Apart from CB, Bike is the onoly other motorcycle magazine I buy regularly. I occasionally pick up Cycle World when I'm in the US to read on the plane and as I'm going next week I might get it.
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Posted: Fri Sep 12th, 2008 01:55 pm |
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I have bought a number of old bike magazines off Ebay.
(As if I don't have enough already!!!)
Often with contemporary road tests of bikes I'm intersted in. Discovered that my Guzzi was used for one test, which was a surprise!
Yes, these old tests often tell you more about the bike that any number of recent, retrospective articles.
Don't throw away your old mags. Put them on Ebay and support your fellow Classic bikers!
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Posted: Fri Sep 12th, 2008 04:12 pm |
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Velton wrote: Don't throw away your old mags. Put them on Ebay and support your fellow Classic bikers!
In an unusually philanthropic mood I had considered listing them on here with a description of what was in each issue and whoever wanted them coukld have them for a quid to my PayPal to cover an envelope and stamp....
Not until I read them all myself first though
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Posted: Fri Sep 12th, 2008 07:50 pm |
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| One other benefit of reading older mags is, that any photos of machines are likely to be in original from the factory state, rather than somebody's over chromed, over polished rebuild.
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Posted: Fri Sep 19th, 2008 11:22 pm |
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| Crumbs, you're right. What a coincidence. I can't find a couple of the subsequent issues, did the Triton ever get finished? It looks like that was Mick Duckworth's own bike. Also the magneto feature isn't quite as comprehesive as mine, I would like to think But I guess it goes to show there's only so much you can write about old bikes!
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Posted: Sat Sep 20th, 2008 05:13 am |
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What is the inside story on the Harris Rick?
I was really looking forward to seeing the finished article... I love the minimalist look of those early Harris bikes. Before Spondon came along with the Beefier sexier chromed up jobs( that I lusted after 10 years ago...oh I am so fickle!)
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Posted: Sat Sep 20th, 2008 08:31 am |
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It's simply that Harris have agreed to do some alterations to suit the engine to be fitted but cannot start work until later in the year, Loz.
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Posted: Fri Sep 26th, 2008 06:29 am |
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So it will still happen... Ah.... (sigh of relief...)
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Posted: Fri Sep 26th, 2008 08:29 am |
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Rick Parkington wrote: Crumbs, you're right. What a coincidence. I can't find a couple of the subsequent issues, did the Triton ever get finished? It looks like that was Mick Duckworth's own bike. Also the magneto feature isn't quite as comprehesive as mine, I would like to think But I guess it goes to show there's only so much you can write about old bikes!
Hi Rick
I have been away on my travels for a couple weeks ( I am on Sakhalin Island right now, 10 hours ahead of you (UK) lot...) but when I get home I will sort out the mags and report on the Triton if I have any of the later issues.
Another idea; how about an index published every December of all the previous years tests/articles. Didn't you used to do that or was it another mag, or did I just dream it... It would save thumbing through every single issue trying to find the article that you are looking for.
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Posted: Fri Sep 26th, 2008 02:21 pm |
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I think it used to be done in CB. Dunno why it isn't now but there may be a technical reason along the lines of taking up space that could be used for something else.
Sakhalin Island, that was the setting for 'Biggles Buries the Hatchet', in which it is depicted as a brutal Russian prison camp. I never knew it existed in real life. Guess who spent more of his school years reading kids books than geography!
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Posted: Fri Sep 26th, 2008 02:47 pm |
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Hi Rick,
Yes, its real and is a good 9 hour flight from Moscow, so goodness knows how Biggles ever got here (I have an overwhelming urge to make some double entendre involving Ginger...must..resist..), maybe he had derring to do in Japan on the way.
Lucky for me that I just need to be down south (near the airport); the base is another 16 hours by train.....
The boy Chekov wrote a bit about the place, check out Amazon (other online bookstores are available)
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Posted: Fri Sep 26th, 2008 06:12 pm |
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Yep, the Triton got finished, It appears in the September 85 issue of CB.
Rick Parkington wrote:
Crumbs, you're right. What a coincidence. I can't find a couple of the subsequent issues, did the Triton ever get finished? It looks like that was Mick Duckworth's own bike. Also the magneto feature isn't quite as comprehesive as mine, I would like to think But I guess it goes to show there's only so much you can write about old bikes!
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Posted: Fri Sep 26th, 2008 06:29 pm |
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Another idea; how about an index published every December of all the previous years tests/articles. Didn't you used to do that or was it another mag, or did I just dream it... It would save thumbing through every single issue trying to find the article that you are looking for.
Isn't there a list on the website that you can search?
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Posted: Fri Sep 26th, 2008 06:34 pm |
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| Yes, but the index only goes up to 2007 young miss.
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Posted: Mon Nov 17th, 2008 01:14 pm |
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Velton wrote:
Don't throw away your old mags. Put them on Ebay and support your fellow Classic bikers!
I did. And one sold.  And I think the guy bought that for The Stranglers article......
Once I have read the rest of them, its 'cut out and keep' the articles I might want to refer to in the future and then the dump (recycling centre!!) for the lot of 'em!!
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Posted: Mon Nov 17th, 2008 02:32 pm |
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When I get too many I either sell them at carboot 75p each or 4 for £2 OR I take them along with things like my MVT mags and Caravan club mags to my Doctors Surgery waiting room. I get fed up with all the women's mags there, not a lot for guys and I know other blokes do. After a couple of weeks half of them are nicked anyway.
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