Chestnut woods make perfect setting for Sidcup's Jack Thompson British Bike Trial

Race-ace turned TV commentator James Whitham will be the star guest at the New Year classic motorcycle event at Newark Showground.

Eight Brough Superiors – thought to have been destroyed but then discovered in a Cornish village earlier this year – are to be sold by Bonhams at April’s Carole Nash Stafford bike show.  

The long journey from Witney, Oxfordshire, to take part in the 43rd Beamish Trophy Trial, organised by the South Durham section of the Vintage Motor Cycle Club on Sunday, September 20, was well worthwhile for Andy Glading, who took home the Richard Hore Memorial Trophy for the best overall performance on his 1938 BSA Empire Star, writes John McCrink, who also took the accompanying pictures. 

Colin Turbett, who lives on the Isle of Arran, is writing a book about the extraordinary life of Olga Kevelos, who was a champion British trials, scrambles and racing motorcyclist from the 1940s to the 1960s.