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  • A Cotton restored

    A Cotton restored

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    Last October we ran a short feature headed ‘The Cotton they dragged from the Grand Union Canal’ telling the story of a 1937 350cc JAP-engined Cotton Sports that VMCC Taverners Section member Brian Matthews had just started putting back together. Now the job is done, and Brian tells the tale. 

  • British scooter display opens at Haynes Motor Museum

    British scooter display opens at Haynes Motor Museum

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    After several years in the planning, the British Motorcycle Charitable Trust’s exhibition of British motor scooters opened to the public within the Haynes International Motor Museum near Yeovil on May 21. 

  • T160 triplex primary drive problem solved

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    Owners of T160 Triumph Tridents might be interested to know that a T160 Triplex primary drive conversion sprocket is now available from Clive Scarfe Systems. 

  • Carole Nash winner Ben spends a day with his hero Leon Haslam

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    After winning a Carole Nash Insurance competition, 37-year-old Ben Hayes from Cheshire recently spent a day he’ll never forget with his motorcycle racing hero, Leon Haslam.  

  • Japanese bikers’ day at Sammy Miller Museum

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    Almost 200 bikes, including some real Japanese exotica, turned up for the Vintage Japanese Motorcycle Club’s Japanese bikers’ day at the Sammy Miller Motorcycle Museum on Saturday, June 11 – and Nigel Barratt and Steph Murchison are to be congratulated on once again organising such a fabulous event. 

  • Timely Thunderfest victory for Rob Head

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    Sponsored by Harleyworld of Chesterfield, the 2016 Thunderfest at Darley Moor saw a packed grid striving to reach their personal target times in a tough 10-lap competition.  

  • Wonderful Whitfield

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    Classic Motorcycle Day at the Dover Transport Museum welcomed a wide range of machinery to the Kent attraction.  

  • Bike Shed London

    Bike Shed London

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    THE BIKE SHED almost defies definition.  

  • Southern Classic Motorcycle Show

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    THE ANNUAL KEMPTON PARK show and bike jumble attracted its fair share of interesting machinery. 

  • Veteran ride

    Veteran ride

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    FORMER SOLDIER Colin Stinson plans to ride 5000 miles around the coast of Britain in 25 days, aboard his 1967 Metisse scrambler. He’s raising funds for ABF The Soldiers’ Charity. 


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