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  • AUSTIN HOCKLEY: Fearless Fighter

    AUSTIN HOCKLEY: Fearless Fighter

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    FROM OUR ARCHIVES Ask any of the competitors who raced regularly against Austin Hockley and the most common description they give him is ‘fearless’. Chris Carter charts his varied career. Words: Chris Carter Photographs: Austin

  • Going for Gold

    Going for Gold

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    The BSA Gold Star has been part of motorcycling folklore for the past eight decades, and at this year’s Carole Nash International Classic MotorCycle Show the ‘Goldie’ will be celebrated in the Restoration Theatre. Expert

  • Quick Spins – 1996 Triumph Speed Triple

    Quick Spins – 1996 Triumph Speed Triple

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    All was set and sorted. But then, after some overnight contemplation, Speed Triple owner Stuart Wallace developed cold feet and things went disappointingly Pete Tong. ‘Sorry, I’ve changed my mind. I can’t let you ride

  • New roadster kit launched!

    New roadster kit launched!

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    Kits to turn early Hinckley Triumph triples into classicstyled Roadsters are being made available by Café Racer Kits (CRK). Based on the sports machine first produced by CRK’s Ian Saxcoburg two years ago, the Roadster

  • CHARITY EVENT IN FOURTH YEAR!

    CHARITY EVENT IN FOURTH YEAR!

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    Classic bike riders are being asked to saddle up to help raise money for blood cancer charities. The BONE-shaker MARROW-thon charity ride between Birmingham and Burton on Trent began in 2014 after the organiser beat

  • Scooperman! – January 2017

    Scooperman! – January 2017

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    The sunny side of the classic world, with the VMJC’s Steve Cooper The so-called riding season is well and truly over. Chances are you’ll be reading the marvellous pages of CMM mollycoddled with luxuries such

  • Scooperman! – February 2017

    Scooperman! – February 2017

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    The sunny side of the classic world, with the VJMC’s Steve Cooper Okay, it’s well and truly shed season now. Lots of us are beavering away in wooden boxes, brick edifices and the like. If

  • Scooperman! – March 2017

    Scooperman! – March 2017

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    The sunny side of the classic world, with the VMJC’s Steve Cooper Someone somewhere once opined: ‘No man is an island’ and as is the way of smart alecs he was, of course, right. Few

  • Scooperman! – April 2017

    Scooperman! – April 2017

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    The sunny side of the classic world, with the VJMC’s Steve Cooper Not every motorcycle on the classic show circuit is what it seems. Ironically and (possibly contentiously) certain elements of the scene are actually

  • Retro reboot – Suzuki RGV600

    Retro reboot – Suzuki RGV600

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    If Suzuki built a big-bore two-stroke, it might just look like this. Welcome to our recreation of the awesome RG500 square four and the RGV250 V-twin… 1985 was the year Suzuki’s RG500 long-awaited answer to


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