Bike  |  January 2017
A GRAND TOUR?
Grand Tour? Hardly. It’s only fifteen miles from TV presenter Richard
Hammond’s home to the tea hut at British Camp in the Malvern Hills.
Still, the run along the swooping A449 is great, even on a grey October day. Richard’s been riding his new toy, a 1961 Triumph Bonneville T120C. We have been entrusted with a 1976 Kawasaki Z900, but it took us a while to select just two bikes from Richard’s amazing thirty plus collection. He’s been quite busy. The Grand Tour, the former Top Gear team’s new TV series on Amazon Prime is about to go on-air, plus there’s a social media scheme called Drive Tribe due to launch, and he’s just published A Short History of the Motorcycle. Still, there’s always time for a Sunday ride.
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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in Bike January 2017.