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  • Blue Plaque at the former home of Siegfried Bettmann

    Blue Plaque at the former home of Siegfried Bettmann

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    A Blue Plaque has been unveiled at the former home of Triumph founder Siegfried Bettmann by the Lord Mayor of Coventry.  

  • Bonhams’ Vegas sale

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    Among the machines consigned already are the barn find motorcycles from the de Guigne collection.  

  • New restoration projects at the Sammy Miller Museum

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    The Sammy Miller Motorcycle Museum has recently been presented with quite a challenge.  

  • A practice ground near Sheffield

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    Sherco Test Day – Saturday 7 November 2015 Even though the focus of Classic Dirt Bike is not surprisingly ‘classic’ it is occasionally nice to explore the modern scene to see how far it has advanced since the editor rode ‘modern.’ Being as his last ‘modern’ bike was an air-cooled Mono Yam when they were…

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    Old Bike Mart is published the first Saturday of every month. The November issue will arrive by Sat 7th November.

  • Kia renews sponsorship deal with Twinshock series

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    Car giant KIA has renewed its sponsorship deal with the National Trials Twinshock series for 2016. 

  • EUROPEAN CLASSIC MOTOCROSS CHAMPIONSHIP 2015

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    The premier classic international MX championship series has been decided for 2015.  

  • Revived Kop Hill Climb is still on the way up

    Revived Kop Hill Climb is still on the way up

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    In 1999, in conjunction with the Bean Car Club, the town council in Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire, ran a commemorative event to celebrate the original Kop Hill Climb that had last been run in 1925, writes Ian Kerr. 

  • Date fixed for Sunbeam MCC’s 2016 Pioneer Run

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    More than 370 entries are anticipated for the Sunbeam Motor Cycle Club’s 77th Pioneer Run for pre-1915 solo motorcycles, sidecar combinations, tricycles and quadricycles on Sunday, March 20, next year. 

  • Good times roll again at Ace Cafe Reunion

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    With the ‘Rocker’ culture arguably almost done and dusted by the mid-1960s, there was little in the way of protest when the Ace Cafe finally closed its doors in 1969 – and it took 24 years before a visionary called Mark Wilsmore, with a passion for bikes and rock ’n’ roll, thought about marking its…


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