Issue 35
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Classic Dirt Bike - Issue 35

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03 In Balance
The knock-on effect concerns the editor
this issue. By this he means how one
seemingly innocuous thing impacts
many areas.

06 News, views and reviews
News pages are a bit of a catch-all in a
quarterly... but let’s have it anyway, as
we can always use the web page and
Facebook to tell you stuff too!

16 Subscribe & Save!
Yes, subscribe to CDB as it is the
simplest way to get hold of your copy.
Other ways include popping along to one
of our shows, or seeing us at events.

18 Original and unrestored
A bit farther afield this issue, all the way
to California in fact where Norm DeWitt
got hold of a desert racer’s lust object
motorcycle…

22 Something Special
BSA Bantams were not all that special
in their day, regarded as beginner bikes,
yes BSA offered a comp version but
hoho! Well! These days it’s different.

32 You need…
…a world-championship-winning Bultaco.
You can’t have this one, but the
production bike was pretty close to it.

48 Dirt Products
Just a small selection of what’s out
there for making dirt bikes go better or
their riders ride better.

52 Dicko’s view
There’s a case of Bantam and Blingitis
going round. Dicko tries to justify spending
the inheritance on bikes and bits.

61 Smith Tales
Enticed back to the ISDT to test his
development work for Can-Am, Jeff finds
trick ideas are occasionally not-so-trick.

72 Dirt Talks
What’re you talking about in the CDB
world? All sorts of things as it happens!
Bring it on, we say.

82 Moto memories
A change of tack for this issue,
Nick Nicholls’ archive here at Mortons
forms the regular feature at the back of
CDB, but normally only one image.

54 The sporting world
Like news, reporting sport may seem
strange in a quarterly... but the events
happen and we go to them, so here’s a
selection of trials, MX and enduro.

62 Show Time
The off-road world headed for Telford and
the International Centre in February.
Why? ‘Wrighty’s show’… oh, er… the
Putoline Classic Dirt Bike show we mean.

Events

44 Rebuilt to ride
Do we ever learn? How many of you
have hauled home an ‘appreciating
off-road classic’and thought ‘OMG’!

50 Tech Talk
What happens when the shock is too
much for your shockers? Get them
serviced. We pop in to Rock Shocks.

How to

10 Dot and dash
Three Dots – one standard, one special
and one works, but what are they like?

26 A winner…
…in the show will take to the track.
Chris Montignani tells the tale of a hot
Husky WR250

35 That was the decade…
… when the Isle of Man hosted the
ISDT three times. Fancy that, eh?
A 1000-mile trial on a small island.

66 An hour with…
…Graham Wiggins. Andy Westlake tells
the tale of a west countryman who gave
the establishment a run for its money.

76 Top TriBSA
Mike Curtis had been thinking about a
pre-60 scrambler for a while, not any
pre-60 scrambler you understand, but a
TriBSA built to his ideals.





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