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If you went along to the Newark Classic Bike Guide Show in January you will have probably noticed Ian Daisley’s Pro Bike Art stand. Ian offers studio photography for owners of classic, custom or cherished bikes – in fact any motorcycle or scooter that someone wants photographed…

Kiwi ace Graeme Crosby is confirmed as the guest of honour at the Carole Nash Classic Motorcycle Mechanics Show, held at Stafford County Showground over the weekend of October 20-21

After putting a shout out in the pages of Classic Motorcycle Mechanics, Adrenaline Motorcycles’ coach cafe is up, running and proving a popular meeting point for bikers in the area…

Fifty years of memories were recounted when members of the Busy Bee Club rode over from Watford to meet their Windsor counterparts, for the Cellar Reunion, at the Black Horse, Windsor, on Sunday, May 13….

GuardCam is a complete all-in-one PIR floodlight, camera, speaker and DVR system that will help protect your bike against intruders. Fitted in minutes, it’ll detect intruders up to a distance of 12 metres…

The International Jampot Rally is a great highlight in the calendar of the AJS and Matchless Owners’ Club. With Britain already having various reasons to be cheerful this year, it seemed only right that the home country could also have the honour of marking the club’s diamond jubilee…

Trying to address the shortage of suitable tracks, the Vintage MCC Sprint Section took the opportunity (and a financial gamble) to hire the long runway at RAF Honington, Suffolk in May for a quarter-mile event on May 20…

Classic Motorcycle Mechanics’ summer trackday at Donington Park on Friday, August 3 is filling up fast. In conjunction with Classic Bike Trackdays we’ve secured one of the highly sought after ‘noisy’ days at Donington Park in Leicestershire…

The road race circuit at Crystal Palace in south London closed 40 years ago. When it was active, the motorcycle events that formed a large part of the calendar were extremely popular. In the years since closure there have been occasions when race engines have been heard again…

New from British bike kit storage experts BikerTidy, is the new Luggage Tidy. Designed to protect expensive top boxes, panniers and the like, the Tidy gets them off the garage floor so they don’t get scratched, kicked or even used as a tabletop!

Leading UK rider groups have written to Justice Minister Kenneth Clarke after a recent Court of Appeal overturned a judgment that had been made in favour of a motorcyclist seriously injured in a collision with a lorry…

There will be a post-vintage motorcycles class at the Sunbeam Club’s Garden of England Run for the first time this year. The event, the 26th of its kind, is due to take place on Sunday, July 15

The Gloucestershire Steam and Vintage Extravaganza, now in its 38th year, will take place once again at its new home at South Cerney Airfield, Cirencester…

The annual extravaganza that is the British Bike Bonanza will take place at Sallywood Park in Gloucestershire on Saturday, June 30 and Sunday, July 1, 2012. This festival of classic off-road action will feature two trials, a grass track and a full programme of scrambling…

Although most often seen attached to a sidecar, the ‘big’ veteran Royal Enfields make astounding solo mounts capable of cruising at a pace that will surprise those on machines built three decades later…

Liverpool motorcycle dealer and Scott enthusiast Albert Reynolds invited pressmen and other interested parties to examine his prototype AER 350cc twin cylinder motorcycle during the month…

Devotees of Eastern European motorcycles will be delighted to learn that their bikes have just become a little easier to keep on the road. MZ enthusiast Phil Speakman has converted his long-time hobby into a going concern and has opened for business with the all-new online MZ Shop…

Classic Racer’s May/June issue has just gone on sale, and to help celebrate what is our 30th anniversay, we’re giving away a double-sided action poster of Steve Hislop and Giacomo Agostini…

While Ernst Degner (50cc Suzuki), Luigi Taveri (125cc Honda), Bob McIntyre (250cc Honda), Mike Hailwood (500cc MV Agusta) and Florian Camathias (BMW s/c) scorched to victory at the blisteringly hot Belgian GP, Derek Minter took no prisoners at Brands Hatch…

Over 600 veteran and vintage motorcycles will descend on the Heritage Motor Centre for the 64th nostalgic Vintage Motor Cycle Club Banbury Run on Sunday, June 17…

The annual ACU-organised National Road Rally is taking place on Saturday, June 30 to Sunday, July 1 this year, so why not give it a go?

One of Britain’s biggest outdoor bike shows is about to hit the road in Northamptonshire. The Billing Bike Show is a celebration of everything that goes on two wheels and is due to take place at the Billing Aquadrome holiday park on Saturday, June 30, and Sunday, July 1

In an effort to revitalise its National Rally the ACU revised the rules making it easier for riders to secure the coveted gold award. The scheme worked for the event held over the first weekend in the month…

Richard Edmonds auctions could be looking to its biggest auction of motorcycles yet, with the inclusion of an extremely rare 1949 Vincent White Shadow…

Unlike most classic bike magazines, the monthly RealClassic magazine isn’t available in the shops. So if you want to read the June issue, you’ll need to buy one online, or subscribe…

A real rare bird on these shores, this beautiful 1970 Clymer built, Indian badged Royal Enfield was spotted on an internet auction site, advertised as an Indian, over in Weymouth, USA…

AMAL Carburetters has taken its Mk1 Concentric and given it a long lasting makeover, with material changes to the slide and body area, which will enhance carburettor life…

This is one dealer’s counter to the complex modern bike, and very good looking we think it is, too…

Between 1953 and 1961 Matchless built and supplied 457 350cc single cylinder Matchless G3LS and G3 motorcycles to Home Office contracts. The purpose of the AFS register is to trace as many surviving models as possible…

A special trophy to commemorate the life of Triton Owners Club founder member, the late Cliff Groom, was awarded at the recent Stafford motorcycle show…

In between the world wars, Morris Motors introduced its Minor, with both side valve and ohc engines, the latter soon being dropped. Bill Van de Becke built this supercharged single seater on a Minor chassis and set a 100mph Brooklands lap…

A fantastic array of motorcycles was on display at the the Aviation Heritage Wolds Run which took place Saturday, May 5 in East Kirkby, Lincs

Fancy something a little bit different to your normal 900SS Ducati? Well what about a Made in Metal special makeover?

A trio of American Crocker machines were displayed at the Stafford Show, over the weekend of April 28-29. Probably never again will there be an opportunity in the UK to see three of the rarest and most period powerful classic motorcycles ever built on these shores

Walking the stalls at bike show always reveals something quirky, and recent Stafford show was no exception. Classic Bike Guide editor Nigel Clark stumbled across this unusual use of a BSA Bantam engine…

1987 snapshot: the IoM TT races are 80 years old. The first contest run in 1907 over the St John’s course was divided into two classes, single and multi cylinder…

On Saturday, June 23, Worcester rider Steve Shaw is planning an 800-mile ride from Land’s End to John O’Groats, to raise support for children who need specialist medical care…

Many people would have coasted past this machine on the Gov’Nors Bridge Motorcycles stand, at the recent Stafford Show and simply assumed it was a scruffy NH Ariel for restoration. However, the eagle-eyed may have spotted that some things were not entirely Birmingham. That’s because it was in fact a 1954 350cc Cabton Knightly…

The Cornwall Classic Motorcycle Club’s annual Festival Of Motorcycles and Classic Vehicle Rally took place at St Ive Keason in April. Although the weather was inclement on the Saturday, around 500 visitors enjoyed the glorious sunshine on the Sunday…

Steve Parrish would like to invite motorsport fans to join him aboard NCL Spirit in February 2013, for a cruise from Barcelona to the Canary Islands

The annual Ride to Work Day sees motorcycle and scooter riders around the UK unite and commute to work to demonstrate to the general public that bikes are a viable transport solution. It’s 21 years old and is a key event in raising biking awareness…

Latest from Hitchcock Motorcycles is a British made five-speed gearbox for Royal Enfield Bullet singles and twins. It’s taken four years of development to perfect but supplies are now available…

The world’s largest and most absorbing motorcycle event begins this Saturday – the 2012 Isle of Man TT races. Motorcycle visitors and Island enthusiasts can once again gorge on the action and varied side-attractions going on during the 13-day event…

Moto Guzzi’s iconic Grand Prix V8 racer from the 1950s is on display at the Sammy Miller Museum in Hants, and well worth a closer look…

Freddie Frith breaks the 90mph barrier in the Isle of Man and wins the Senior while Scotsman Jimmie Guthrie and Omobono Tenni take the Junior and Lightweight classes respectively…

New, stylish and fully road legal open face helmet for those of us who still feel that open face is the way to go for classic motorcycling…

Issue 23 of Classic Dirt Bike has just hit the bookstalls, and with it your chance to win our long-term enduro feature bike, the Can-Am 250cc. Look out for the distinctive sideways Triumph Wasp outfit on the magazine cover…

John McGuinness is on provisional front row for the North West 200. McGuinness and team-mate Simon Andrews will now take part in the second practice session on Thursday 17 May before the final grid positions are decided for Saturday’s races…

The stunning replica of the world’s first electric vehicle, built in 1881 by English scientists William Ayrton and John Perry, has been completed by a team at Autovision Museum…

Preview of what to expect at the forthcoming 32nd Carole Nash International Classic MotorCycle show which runs on the 28th and 29th April at the Stafford County Show Ground

The spread of motorcycle access to all UK bus lanes gets a double boost on May 6 when a key ‘trial’ scheme starts in the heart of London on roads controlled by Westminster City Council…

Competition or road-going Triumph Tiger Cubs can have their front brake performance improved with this new high lift actuating cam for the brake drum…

At Lanark today Show organisers and traders are setting up their stands and moving in and positioning the bikes before giving them the final once-over with polish and a linen cloth. Show gates open tomorrow at 9am…

1962 snapshot: in what can only be described as a sensational result, Chris Vincent, passengered by Eric Bliss, steered his BSA outfit to victory in the Sidecar TT…

Brand new connecting rods for Royal Enfield twins are stronger than stock items and should take the worry out of the old forged rods ‘letting go’ after a rebuild…

Such is the momentum and influence the Motorcycle Action Group has accumulated recently, the new Hemel Hempstead MAG group was visited by its MP, the Roads Minister Mike Penning (image), who promptly joined as a full member…

‘Highland TT’ is what the Thursday route on the Scottish Six days Trial used to be referred to as riders pelted round the Moidart Peninsular. The Moidart Run is a slightly more sedate affair and takes in a visit to one of the iconic sections of Scottish Six Days Trial history – The Devil’s Staircase…

Supported by Wines from Spain, the 2012 pre 65 Scottish Two Day Trial – on 4-5 May – weighed-in in glorious weather at the Aluminium Works Carpark in Kinlochleven and the talk was of who would take top spot with last year’s winner Steve Saunders not entered…

Hot on the heels of the Carole Nash International Classic Motorcycle Show at Stafford last weekend comes the second of our new motorcycle shows for 2012 and this time we’re heading north to Lanarkshire…

New proposals have been announced to freshen up the Manx Grand Prix Festival, following a four-month research project, involving online surveys, focus groups and discussions with third parties and local businesses…

Aubrey Attrill passed away, aged 82, at home on March 25; his funeral was held on April 2, at the Isle of Wight Crematoriam

The Edinburgh based Auld Reekie Section of the Vintage Motor Cycle Club has added the Scottish Demob Run to its 2012 calendar and recruits are needed to enlist in the event dedicated to motorcycles of the 1930s and 40s The event takes place on May 30th in East Lothian…