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Like so many others, the London Motorcycle Museum, located in a historic building close to the A40, is the result of one man’s drive, determination and, it could be argued, obsession in collecting Triumph machines, writes Ian Kerr. 

Triumph’s new Street Twin is everything the Meriden Bonnie might have been, writes Frank Melling. 

Race ace, TV commentator and thoroughly decent all-round bloke, James Whitham will be the star guest at the Carole Nash Classic Bike Guide Winter Classic at the Newark Showground on January 9-10. 

They were believed to have been destroyed, but last year eight long-lost Brough Superior motorcycles were discovered in a Cornish village and, unveiled for the first time in 50 years, will be offered at Bonhams’ Sale of Important Collectors’ Motorcycles at Stafford on April 24. 

While few of the traction engines that originated at the Offham Steam Rally now attend, it remains an annual get-together (on October 18, 2015) of all sorts of older transport that dominates the Kent village. 

Desne Dodkin, the former Veloce employee and wife of well-known Velocette dealer Geoff, passed away on September 16.