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  • Fans’ Favourite Whitham Set For Newark Show

    Fans’ Favourite Whitham Set For Newark Show

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    Race-ace turned TV commentator James Whitham will be the star guest at the New Year classic motorcycle event at Newark Showground. Fans’ Favourite Whitham Set For Newark Show James Whitham will guest star at the

  • Beckham’s Brazilian Bonneville arrives at the NMM!

    Beckham’s Brazilian Bonneville arrives at the NMM!

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    Part Bonneville, part scrambler, part desert-sled this aggressive black jungle special is another chapter in the story of one of history’s most versatile motorcycles… Built for David Beckham for his adventure deep into the Amazon

  • New Year’s Day gathering, Brooklands

    New Year’s Day gathering, Brooklands

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    This was the most successful of the Brooklands New Year’s Day events so far, with more than 1,000 vehicles causing some minor traffic disruption as they tried to make their way into the venue via

  • Geoff Duke: 1923-2015

    Geoff Duke: 1923-2015

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    He’s one of the greatest ever to have graced the TT and now Geoff Duke has completed his final lap of the The Mountain course. A special event took place on the Isle of Man

  • Dirt Bike Classic Brings The Punters To Telford

    Dirt Bike Classic Brings The Punters To Telford

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    THE classic off-road bike scene showed its strength once again this weekend, February 20-21, as riders and enthusiasts packed in to Telford’s International Centre for the premier event of the year. Dirt Bike Classic Brings

  • Bill Little to retire after almost 40 years

    Bill Little to retire after almost 40 years

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    After establishing his business, Bill Little Motorcycles of Oak Farm, Braydon, near Swindon SN50AG, in 1979, Bill has finally decided to put his feet up, and a Retirement Sale, with lots of automobilia and memorabilia to clear from his barn, takes place on Saturday, August 6. 

  • Another brilliant Banbury Run – and it’s still the biggest and best in the world!

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    Almost 500 riders took part in the Vintage Motor Cycle Club’s 68th Banbury Run, open only to VMCC members on pre-1931 machines, on Sunday, June 19 – down a little on the 600 or so during the halcyon days of a few years ago, but still living up to the event’s tag of ‘the largest…

  • 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. 


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