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  • More than half-a-million bikes in a year – Royal Enfield’s best financial results ever

    More than half-a-million bikes in a year – Royal Enfield’s best financial results ever

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    After selling more than half-a-million motorcycles in the last financial year, Royal Enfield has announced its best-ever results for a 12-month period. 

  • Vintage Tyres appoints new managing director

    Vintage Tyres appoints new managing director

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    Vintage Tyres, the world’s largest supplier of original-equipment tyres for enthusiast vehicles, has appointed Ben Field, who joined the company last June, as its new managing director. 

  • ‘Tangerine Dream’ winner announced

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    Peter Allan of Epsom, Surrey, is the lucky winner of the top prize in the National Motorcycle Museum’s Winter Raffle, a 1959 Triumph T120 ‘Tangerine Dream’ 650cc Bonneville. 

  • Foggy to ride Triumph legends at Goodwood Festival of Speed

    Foggy to ride Triumph legends at Goodwood Festival of Speed

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    Four-time world superbike champion Carl Fogarty will return to the Goodwood Festival of Speed from June 23-26 for the first time in eight years. 

  • Picturesque tour proves the classic way to explore Brittany

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    If your perception of northern France is that it’s flat and boring, you need to experience the annual three-day Tour du Calvados, run by the Lue sur Mer-based Retro Moto Cote de Nacre Club, writes Ian Kerr. 

  • Bonhams breaks records

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    Bonhams Stafford Sale set a new world-record price for a Brough Superior and for any British motorcycle sold at auction, as the gavel fell at an astounding £331,900 for the 1938 Brough Superior 750cc BS4. 

  • Sunbeam and Steve star at Stafford

    Sunbeam and Steve star at Stafford

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    The Classic MotorCycle backed show at Stafford saw a Best in Show award for a fabulous Sunbeam, with guest of honour Steve Parrish a popular appointment. 

  • Foggy at the Goodwood Festival of Speed

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    Carl Fogarty will return to the Goodwood Festival of Speed on June 23-26 for the first time in eight years as he prepares to celebrate Triumph’s heritage. 

  • Sixth Ixion Cavalcade

    Sixth Ixion Cavalcade

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    On Sunday May 1, 2016, the Sunbeam MCC held the Sixth Ixion Cavalcade, to commemorate Canon Basil Davies, who wrote for The Motor Cycle under the pseudonym of ‘Ixion’ for many years from the earliest days of motorcycling.  

  • Guy in Scotland

    Guy in Scotland

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    TV and TT star Guy Martin took to the hills, rocks and mud of Scotland, to take part in the Scottish Pre-65 Trial, aboard an Ariel. He gamely battled on to the finish, classified as the final (157th) finisher in the results. 


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