November 2006

BIFFA?S BASEMENT
There?s always lots to do in The Basement, not all of it is directly involving motorcycles though.
8 TRADITIONAL RECIPE
All the ingredients are here for something spectacular. Tim Britton sees if this tasty NorBSA agrees with the palette.
16 EXPORT DELIGHT
On one of his trips to the USA, photographer Bob Clarke came across a Dunstall Triumph. A Triumph?
23 HOW TO...
..give your bike more bling than a New York rapper - that?s ?pop singer? to anyone 40 and over - yes Biffa makes with the mops. 28 RESPONSE
We like to think CBG is thought provoking, and when those thoughts are provoked, recorded and sent in, this is where we print them of course- which provokes more thought..
33 BY INVITATION ONLY
All we do is ask, yep, it?s as simple as that. Sometimes we don?t know from one month to the next who?s going to say ?yes? though. This month Bruno Tagliaferri agreed to write a column for us, bit of a Triumph I?d say.
35 MOVING SWIFTLY ON
Our columnist really is moving on- from his temporary home in California he?s heading back to Scotland. Just as well really, all that sunshine can?t be good for a man.
38 LIFE?S A LOTTERY
Or, in this case a ?raffle?. Yes, once again CBG gets to ride a VMCC raffle bike before it goes out to the lucky winner. Uncle Jim pronounces on an AJS single.
48 WE WERE THERE - 1
The world-famous Beezumph attracts people from all over the world.We asked the world-famous Nigel C to go along and take some pictures.
52 WE WERE THERE - 2
Grampian Transport Museum is the setting for the annual Alford Convention .. a veritable extravaganza of motorcycling including track action, ride-outs and concours competitions. The Gorgeous Biker Chick went along, with her Tiger Cub.
54 YOUR CLASSIC
All sorts of bikes appear in this bit of the magazine, they all have one thing in common though, they?re restored, ridden, written and photographed by you.
58 WEEK WITH A CLASSIC
They said we couldn?t do it. They said no one would loan us a bike for a week. Boy, were they WRONG! Keith Fryer spends a week with a Commando.
66 CLOSE RELATIONS
From origins in Turner?s Tiger Cub, BSA?s unit singles went from 250cc, through 343cc to 500cc via, of course, 441cc. Keith Fryer has a look at a couple of B50s.
76 PLUGS AND LEADS
Let?s have a look and see what?s happening in the old bike world.. oh, is that right? Well I never..oh, that too, gosh, I didn?t know that.
84 WE WERE THERE - 3
Hesketh Motorcycles have moved and once the dust had settled they had an open day. CBG went along.
86 WE WERE THERE - 4
Pro-active, that?s the VMCC these days. The S & T and the National are on the same weekend and are known as ?The Double?. GBC goes along.
88 WE WERE THERE - 5
Gosh we have been busy, Uncle Jim, goes to Norton Day.
100 LOOKING FOR ADVENTURE
Is your next run-out listed here? If it is, tell us what it was like, go on, I dare you..