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1 articles The Honda leading links like the C90 are adequate for the style of bikes they were mostly used on, but because they depend on the fairly small axle to brace them against twist they would not be very good for anything with sporting pretensions. We had a Honda Benley 150 in the family once, I was keeping it going for my brother in law to ride. It wasn't a young bike then, being a 61 model in use during the mid seventies. It had a very comfy ride, and good anti dive geometry, which was a bit disconcerting for those used to teles, but fine in practice. It made an interesting comparison...

This essay is part of a series on cultural, scientific and esoteric matters. Jim Allison is an iconoclastic scientist who toiled in obscurity for years. Then he helped crack a mystery that may save millions of lives: Why doesn’t the immune system attack cancer? Chance favors the prepared mind. —Louis Pasteur This material was first published by WIRED magazine on 10.22.2018 ADAPTED FROM THE book The Breakthrough: Immunotherapy and the Race to Cure Cancer,  JAMES ALLISON LOOKS like a cross between Jerry Garcia and Ben Franklin, and he’s a bit of both, an iconoclastic scientist and mu...

Side Glances: Reflections on 1499 Monrovia Peter Egan © LUCY HEWETT Sports cars, camaraderie, and Newport Beach sunsets. When my wife, Barbara, and I moved back to Wisconsin in 1990, after 10 years in California, the Mayflower estimator looked around our home and gave us some advice.“You have a lot of books and a whole wall of magazines,” she said, “and they are very heavy. I would get rid of those you don’t want and then ship the rest by parcel post. It’ll actually be cheaper than hauling them in the moving van.” This story originally appeared in the November/D...

The Honda 750F2 that replaced the commando which no one in Edinburgh or Glasgow wanted took me to West Berlin in the winter of 1975 travelling through East Germany, other UK personal were forced to use the train to take their bikes. West Berlin was an amazing 'bikers' world, big Germans on small 50cc Italian motorbikes were a sight to seen. The Honda was driven all year round and went on to do 120,000 with only tyres, oil filters and plugs replaced, I must admit that one thing did go wrong, the gear indication switch that screwed into bottom of the gear box needed to be replaced, cost about...

Norton 961 Commando To Be Made In Limited Numbers Norton 961 Commando To Be Made In Limited Numbers Interim CEO of Norton Motorcycles has said that those who paid deposits for the Norton 961 Commando will be able to get their bikes. 0  Views Highlights TVS Motor Company acquired Norton in April 2020 for 16 million GBP Norton Atlas 650 Ranger & Nomad confirmed for 2021 British brand Norton Motorcycles, which got a new lease of life after TVS Motor Company bought it in April 2020, looks set to be on a path to revival. While Norton faced near collapse due to mismanagement and some wrong...