Contents - July/August 2008

6 Archive
Continental invasion.

8 Paddock Gossip
Two exclusives for you.

18 Tech Inspection
What to read, what to wear.

20 An Hour With…
VMCC’s top man quizzed.

22 Readers Write
You have your say.

24 Mike's comeback catalyst
It’s a laugh a minute as Jim Skaysbrook tells the untold tale of the prompt
behind Mike the Bike’s TT return.

32 Steve Baker
If ever a rider let his on track performance do the talking it was Steve Baker. America’s first World Champion opens up to Norm DeWitt.

40 The claiming BSA - The Inside line
BSA’s John Cooper crossed the Atlantic and beat the Americans in their own back yard. Steve Brown was on the spanners and tells the mechanics tale.

48 Sometimes the little guy wins
Alan Cathcart thinks small, to bring us the big test, as he wraps himself around the Aspar Martinez 125 Derbi.

56 Trade tales
In the first in a series of Trade Tales Editor Wheeler visits the Hemmings’ Norton emporium and enjoys more than the tea.

62 Under the spotlight
A Manx with a story to tell.

66 Subscribe and save

68 Young guns down under
Hamish Cooper tells the story of a Young Gun, and how fast classics were the making of a fast modern racer.

74 Out and about With Classic Racer

81 The racing starts here

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