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  • Endurance Legends 2017

    Endurance Legends 2017

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    Endurance Legends, held at Snetterton in October 2015, the UK’s first four-hour classic endurance race, the organisers have announced that it will return, bigger and better, at Donington Park in early May 2017, supported by

  • American Legends Star at Stafford

    American Legends Star at Stafford

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    Four of the stars of the iconic Bruce Brown motorcycling movie from the Seventies, On Any Sunday, are to be guests of honour at the Carol Nash Classic Mechanics Show, held at Stafford County Showground,

  • Banbury in bloom

    Banbury in bloom

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    Organised by the VMCC, the biggest gathering of running vintage and veteran machines doesn’t disappoint in 2016.  

  • Draganfly turns 40

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    It’s the summer of 1976. A long-haired chap of 24 is fixing bikes from a rented shed, dreaming of working for himself.  

  • Book Review: ‘Sox’ Gary Hocking – the forgotten World Motorcycle Champion

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    Gary Hocking was born near Newport, South Wales in 1937 but grew up in Southern Rhodesia, now known as Zimbabwe when his family emigrated in 1947.  

  • Romney Marsh spectacular

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    Following the previous day’s heavy rain, access to Elk Promotions’ show field at Hamstreet, near Ashford, Kent, on June 26, needed a measure of care, but the effort was worth it as the machinery on display was as widely varied as ever.  

  • Founders Day flourishes in the sun

    Founders Day flourishes in the sun

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    As ever, the VMCC’s Founders Day, on July 17, was well-attended, with a sun-kissed affair enjoyed by all.  

  • US stars for Stafford

    US stars for Stafford

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    Four of the cast from iconic motorcycle documentary On Any Sunday are the guests of honour at Stafford’s October.  

  • A Norton Navigator’s tale – the rescuer rescued

    A Norton Navigator’s tale – the rescuer rescued

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    Les Orme tells how, many years after the event, he managed to return the favour to a Norton Navigator that had rescued him from a breakdown crisis in France. 

  • Sweltering success for Skipton’s record-breaking Big Bike Sunday

    Sweltering success for Skipton’s record-breaking Big Bike Sunday

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    Records were broken during the Girder Fork & Classic Motorcycle Club’s 20th anniversary year when 1300 visitors – a big increase over last year’s 850 – supported the club’s Big Bike Sunday charity event at Skipton Auction Mart on June 26.  


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