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Although last year more than 60 Velocette riders entered the Peak Tour and enjoyed a great day out amid the stunning scenery of the Peak District, this time the organising East Midlands branch of the Velocette Owners’ Club is aiming for the three-figure mark when the event takes place on June 18…

In 1914 the maker of the Wooler horizontal single cylinder two-stroke motorcycle (pic) informed the press it was about to move into new premises at Old Oak Common Lane, Willesden, North London…

The Cotton Owners’ and Enthusiasts’ Club is organising a special gathering at Brooklands on Sunday, July 20 to celebrate 100 years since Frank Willoughby Cotton patented the famous triangle frame, and hopes to attract more than 100 Cottons to the event…

Frances Thorp, the Honorary Secretary of the TT Riders Association for the past eleven years, has been awarded this year’s PokerStars Spirit of the TT Award. The position is unpaid and subject to an election every year…

The Mallory Bike Bonanza on July 11-13 gives riders the chance to take to the track during the parade laps on road and race machines…

Conditions were less than ideal with early rain at EGP Enterprises’ Southern Classic Show, although most of the exhibitors remained dry in the show area, comfortably accomodated on the ground floor of the huge grandstand at the Surrey race course…

Win a Vincent for just £2! Amazing Moto Major, Norton Jubilee profile, Italian motocross museum visit, stars of Stafford, plus all the usual archive stories and your favourite columnists. At a bookstall near you now!

There are ambitious developments afoot at Classic Bike Shows and there’s no better example than the Carole Nash Great Scottish Bike Show. With a move to a new venue confirmed and star names such as Giacomo Agostini set to attend, the event is expected to make its mark in a big way this summer…

Forthcoming race events at the Welsh circuit are on Sunday July 6 and Sunday August 24. For the July event expect special guest appearances in the parade from John McGuinness Nick Jefferies, Stan Woods and Tommy Robb. A day not to be missed!

More than 40 British bikes, including a Dunstall Norton Commando, a Triumph-engined flat-tracker and a fire-damaged BSA Rocket 3, recently arrived in the UK having being sourced from the east coast of the USA by Phil Humphrey and Alan Millar of Totnes Classic Motorcycles…

This year’s run on May 11 started wet, cold and windy, but soon after the riders departed on the Cavalcade the rain stopped. Once into the country lanes, participants were protected by the foliage and could happily concentrate on the potholes…

John McGuinness won his 21st TT race on this morning when he took the SES TT Zero race in record-breaking style. Riding the Mugen Shinden, McGuinness was always in the lead and with a stunning new lap record of 117.366mph, he came home 23.3s clear of team-mate Bruce Anstey…

Yetserday John McGuinness responded to Bruce Anstey’s fastest electric bike lap ever, clocked last Sunday, in stunning fashion with a new fastest lap of his own…

An eclectic collection of classic motorcycles awaits your reading pleasure in this month’s RealClassic magazine, including an Ariel Square, two-strokes from Greeves, Suzuki and Kawasaki, Enfield’s Meteor Minor, a much-modded Vincent Comet and heaps more. Here’s how to buy a copy

This event was the first of this season’s NSA Southern Section’s visits to the venue, near Bridgwater, Somerset. The first day of competition was short-lived…

TT fans will get the chance to meet a true race legend this Sunday, as motorcycle superstar John McGuinness takes part in a signing session at the WHSmith store in the Isle of Man capital, Douglas…

Cassington Bike Night is taking place on the usual last Monday of June, with thousands of bikers expected to arrive to be part of the annual event…

To celebrate its 30th anniversary, the National Motorcycle Museum is holding a series of celebrations including a photography competition, from August 1 until the anniversary year culminates with the ‘free’ open day, on Saturday November 1 2014…

A selection of rare vintage 1950s motorcycles are entered for BCA Peterborough’s next Motorbike Auction on Friday May 30 alongside a further 150 bikes from a variety of fleet, finance and dealer sellers…

Lightning Clubman – BSA’s answer to the Thruxton Bonnie. Plus Triumph’s adventure bike, Ducati singles, Hailwood’s A65 and all the usual columnists and archive features. On sale now…

Island Racer 2014 is the ultimate Isle of Man TT publication bringing together the greatest images, latest news and superb features from TTs, past and present. Now available as a digital download!

The CRMC (Classic Racing Motorcycle Club) enjoyed dry, sunny weather for the second of its national championship rounds. This time, the club was at Lydden Hill circuit in Kent…

The 1940s Relived is a more recent addition to the Brooklands calendar, but succeeds in encouraging many people to dress up for the occasion, in uniform or period dress, to create a serious helping of nostalgia…

A pair of Brough Superiors, four Vincents and a Nigerian King’s Rudge Multi set to make Bonhams Banbury Run Sale in Woodstock, Oxford on June 7, a motorcycle enthusiast’s dream…

An eagle-eyed Classic Bike Guide reader has pointed out we got the dates wrong in the May issue of CBG. The event to be held at Tobacco Dock will be held on May 24-25, this weekend, and NOT May 23-24 as printed in the mag. Full report below…

Suzuki’s svelte GT380 revealed and bargain Bandits, plus Yamaha SR400/500, RD350LC special, Niall McKenzie’s FS1-E and all the usual columnists and regulars. On sale now…

Mike Hailwood races his MV four at the Isle of Man, 400 spectators watch racing at Doncaster and a bad year for fatalities at the IoM in 1989. We look back at key events in June…

The annual motorcycle show at Amberley is usually seeen as an opportunity to display a bike (25 years-old at least, please) while wandering off to enjoy the many attractions of the museum in the huge chalk quarry in the South Downs…

Sidecar superstar Nick Thompson interview, BSA Gold Star engine profile, plus sport and tech archives and articles on Bultaco, Montesa, Suzuki, Yamaha TY and AJS special…

If you’re quick there’s still time to register for a unique 99km ride across Paris. The exclusive event that is taking place on Sunday May 25 on behalf of Blitz Motorcycles and Double RL…

There are a few changes afoot for quarterly publication Classic Dirtbike, which will affect UK readers. From the next issue (32) CDB will be moving to a subscription only format…

With Scott Redding, Jim Redman, Sam Lowes and Nick Jefferies on the start line the only big star missing from this year’s Thundersprint was Noah – and he was the one with most experience of the conditions!

New three-phase alternator stators, claimed to produce more power at low revs than the single-phase versions, have just been announced by Paul Goff. Plus finding vintage tyres and NSU spares…

As in previous years, the Brooklands motorcycle team will have an ‘outreach’ programme, taking a selection of bikes and demonstrating them at a variety of events…

An unrestored trio are set to headline Bonhams Oxford sale, on June 7, the day before the VMCC’s Banbury Run…

The Mallory Bike Bonanza is all about bikes and the Leicestershire circuit is giving motorcyclists the chance to take to the track during the event and ride their own machines alongside racing legends in the road bike and race bike parade laps…

Several readers, including Sammy Miller, have kindly solved the mystery of the bike shown with Ron Hockley’s Muc-Off Star Letter (April OBM) and it turns out to be not much of a ‘mystery’ at all…

Alongside the traditional printed publication, specialist classic bookazine Forever Two Wheels is now available as a special edition digital issue with added image galleries, video content and a new ‘no-zoom-needed’ design…

In this month’s RealClassic magazine, owners share their experiences about running, riding and rebuilding all kinds of classic bikes, from Laverda triples to British lightweight two-strokes, military Harleys to Velocette singles. Here’s how to buy a copy

Tim Mount is a regular grass track rider in the south east of the country. For some 20 years, he has owned a bike fitted with a BSA C15 engine. Long since out-classed, it its heyday it was cutting-edge for the quarter litre class…

Plaques commissioned by the Brough Superior Club to acknowledge the life of George Brough have been affixed on two houses in Nottingham…

The Cholmondeley Pageant of Power goes Latin with an Italian theme for 2014 when it opens the gates of the beautiful grounds of Cholmondeley Castle over June 13-15…

Selection of motorcycle activities throughout from last century starting with The Motor Cycle advising readers of ferry arrangements for the Isle of Man in 1914…

Although originally aimed at the racing fraternity, Solo starters quickly found a far wider market, and in the last eight years starters have been sold to collectors, engine builders, restorers, motorcycle dealers, and even the MoT Testing Station at Braddan, IoM…

BBC Top Gear’s Richard Hammond made a surprise appearance at the recent Prescott Bike Festival, arriving on a classic Norton Dominator…

Three of Suzuki’s top engineers will be joining Steve Wheatman’s Classic Suzuki Race Team at the Classic TT in August. Tadano Matsui, Masaru Iwasaki and Makoto Suzuki are flying in especially for the event…

Triumph Tiger 100 – fast fun, smooth and irrestisibly stylish. Also budget Velocette special, Czech engineering, James V-twins, a stunning Manx Norton plus all the usual archive stories and your favourite columnists. On sale now!

Showgoers were abuzz with news of a record breaking sale in the Bonhams auction as another bumper crowd went home happy following the now traditional spring motorcycle event at Staffordshire County Showground this past weekend…

From the publisher of Classic Bike Guide magazine, Forever Two Wheels celebrates the hand-built customised motorcycle and the new generation of bike builders embracing this new culture. We know you’ll enjoy it…

Specialist independent classic and sports car auctioneers Historics at Brooklands has a mouth-watering line-up for its classic motorcycle auction on June 7…

For this year’s Pioneer Run, held on April 13, the organising Sunbeam MCC arranged access once again to Handcross Park School. The buildings, set some way back from the road (and the Pioneer route) seem totally appropriate as a backdrop as the late 19th century design predates the visiting bikes by just a few years…

Watsonian sidecars has developed a fitting kit for the Triumph Trophy, the British motorcycle manufacturer’s ultimate touring bike…

The 34th Carole Nash International Classic MotorCycle Show is over for another year, and that means we have another batch of winners for you!

Large crowds gathered to hear fascinating tales and long lines formed for signing sessions this past weekend as one of motorsport’s finest kick-started a year of events celebrating his glorious career…

Every motorcycle show needs a few enigmatic machines, and this Vincent HRD Sport from way back in 1931 is no exception…

The Ferrari 158, the only championship winning Ferrari that’s not painted red, has arrived for the weekend at the Carole Nash International Classic MotorCycle Show…

April 26 has finally arrived which means the doors are now officially open to the much-anticipated Carole Nash International Classic MotorCycle Show…

This stunning 1953 Vincent Rapide C is only half of the class act that entrant Vic Mathers brought along to Stafford this weekend. Nestled alongside this classic 998 cc Vincent V-twin is a Steib 501 sidecar that was used in British sci-fi saga Doctor Who.

When David Pattison bought this 1921 Norton 17C at auction in June 2012, he described it as little more than a “rusty wreck”. However, invigorated by the challenge of restoring such a prestigious motorcycle, David rose to the challenge spectacularly.

This eye-catching and thorougly British display comes courtesy of entrant Des Price. On top of the union jack, in pride of place, is a lovely 1959 Triumph T110.

Perhaps the most inconic of the Coventry-Eagle motorcycles is the Flying Eight, and this remarkable 1925 specimen entered by Peter Lancaster is as pretty as it is rare.

This spectacular 1923 Cotton Dart was lovingly restored by Tony Trueman who (after spending most of his easter holidays holed up in his garage) has brought it to Stafford this weekend…

This here be the new Jawa Retro Sidecar Combination. This uses the new Jawa 350 Retro motorcycle and a purpose designed all steel sidecar…

The only man ever to win a Formula One World Championship in a Ferrari that wasn’t red will be reunited with his blue and white machine this weekend…