March 2019

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The Classic MotorCycle

The world authority on motorcycling history and historic motorcycles. The bikes, the people, the passion.

CONTENTS         
ISSUE / FEBRUARY 2019 

Archive photograph………………...........................................6  

News.........................……………….........................................8 

Newark show………………....................................................12 

Letters………………...............................................................14

Norton Commando (Gus Kuhn)
………………..........................18 

Subscribe and save………………............................................26

Ariel VB………………..............................................................28

Moto Guzzi V50………………..................................................36 

Velocette KTT……………….....................................................42

Royal Enfield New Bullet………………....................................50 

BSA scooter……………….........................................................56 

Stan Dibben profile- part two..............................................62 

Closer look – AJS Porcupine & Matchless G45..……………….68 

Men who mattered – Bill Doran………………….......................74 

Triumph 3TA/5TA rebuild………………….................................76 

Allan Hitchcock interview………………….................................78 

Roy Poynting column…………………........................................80 

Sketchbook travels…………………............................................84 

You were asking………………...................................................86 

Restoration guide – Royal Enfield K & FX……………...............90 

Technical feature............................……………….....................92 

Next month………………..........................................................98

Diary................………………...................................................110

Classic camera...................................................................114

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