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  • Sweltering success for Skipton’s record-breaking Big Bike Sunday

    Sweltering success for Skipton’s record-breaking Big Bike Sunday

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    Records were broken during the Girder Fork & Classic Motorcycle Club’s 20th anniversary year when 1300 visitors – a big increase over last year’s 850 – supported the club’s Big Bike Sunday charity event at

  • Winners all in 68th VMCC Banbury Run

    Winners all in 68th VMCC Banbury Run

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    Riding a 1903 Quadrant Banking Tricycle, Geoff Wheeler took the Len Wills Trophy for the best performance on a veteran machine at this year’s Vintage Motor Cycle Club Banbury Run on Sunday, June 19. Awards

  • Norton Festival salutes Lancashire biker Phil – still burning up the roads at 85 years young

    Norton Festival salutes Lancashire biker Phil – still burning up the roads at 85 years young

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    This year’s Norton Owners’ Club Festival included a 30-mile ride around the New Forest area before converging on the Sammy Miller Museum, where more than 200 bikes had gathered by noon on Saturday, July 2.

  • Welcome

    Welcome

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    I’m guessing that many of you grew up with the best motorcycling movie of all time, On Any Sunday? Steve McQueen starred in this iconic Bruce Brown movie, but the real stars of the show

  • Endurance Legends 2017

    Endurance Legends 2017

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    Endurance Legends, held at Snetterton in October 2015, the UK’s first four-hour classic endurance race, the organisers have announced that it will return, bigger and better, at Donington Park in early May 2017, supported by

  • American Legends Star at Stafford

    American Legends Star at Stafford

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    Four of the stars of the iconic Bruce Brown motorcycling movie from the Seventies, On Any Sunday, are to be guests of honour at the Carol Nash Classic Mechanics Show, held at Stafford County Showground,

  • VMCC section embraces the Roaring Twenties

    VMCC section embraces the Roaring Twenties

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    The East Sussex section of the Vintage Motor Cycle Club presented a fine selection of machinery at a Roaring Twenties Day in Bexhill-on-Sea recently, with motorcycles around the VMCC stand including a period 1925 James,

  • Book Review: ‘Sox’ Gary Hocking – the forgotten World Motorcycle Champion

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    Gary Hocking was born near Newport, South Wales in 1937 but grew up in Southern Rhodesia, now known as Zimbabwe when his family emigrated in 1947.  

  • Romney Marsh spectacular

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    Following the previous day’s heavy rain, access to Elk Promotions’ show field at Hamstreet, near Ashford, Kent, on June 26, needed a measure of care, but the effort was worth it as the machinery on display was as widely varied as ever.  

  • Founders Day flourishes in the sun

    Founders Day flourishes in the sun

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    As ever, the VMCC’s Founders Day, on July 17, was well-attended, with a sun-kissed affair enjoyed by all.  


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