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  • Lansdowne Season End

    Lansdowne Season End

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    The last two meetings of the year, both with the CRMC, were at the Donington Festival in August and their Race of the Year at Brands in October. Donington was a four-race programme with 41

  • Sexy Suzuki RGV500 rebuilt!

    Sexy Suzuki RGV500 rebuilt!

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    Kevin Schwantz’s 1989 Pepsi Suzuki RGV500 was restored to full working order at the recent Motorcycle LIVE event. The iconic Grand Prix machine was completely stripped, before being carefully and meticulously restored by Team Classic

  • Mackenzie Hodgson Insurance

    Mackenzie Hodgson Insurance

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    Triple British Superbike Champion Niall Mackenzie and World Superbike Champion Neil Hodgson have become insurance salesmen! With many race and former race stars fronting up big bike insurance companies for their own gain, this is

  • Anniversary Blade book coming!

    Anniversary Blade book coming!

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    The 25th anniversary of the Honda FireBlade (or Fireblade post-2004) was in 2017 and a new Mortons’ bookazine is coming along in 2018 to celebrate this fact. Written by our own editor Bertie Simmonds, it

  • French sale

    French sale

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    There’s a fabulous, eclectic range of machines on offer at Osenat’s sale, at the Salon Moto Legende in Paris, on Saturday, November 25. Ranging from a host of engines – mainly from French machines –

  • Lansdowne update Cadwell Park and Castle Combe

    Lansdowne update Cadwell Park and Castle Combe

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    It’s not often you can visit Cadwell and be blessed with sunshine, but this time we were lucky. Dean Stimpson, the leader in the Bonhams Championship, took pole position on Nick Izzard’s Manx, with Glen

  • Tears and joy at Gedinne

    Tears and joy at Gedinne

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    Local rider Alain Vandriessche was delighted to qualify on pole for the IHRO races one and two at Gedinne, a feat not lost on the Belgian crowds who love to cheer on one of their

  • ÁNGEL NIETO 1947-2017

    ÁNGEL NIETO 1947-2017

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    Spain’s 13-time world champion and so-called ‘king of the tiddlers’ Ángel Nieto passed away on August 3, from head injuries sustained in a road traffic accident a week earlier. This saw him thrown off a

  • Colin Edwards Snr

    Colin Edwards Snr

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    Colin Edwards Snr, 72, of Montgomery, Texas, passed away on September 18, 2017. He was born on September 12, 1945 in Sydney, Australia. Colin, first and foremost a proud dad and grandpa who loved being

  • Harry Pearce 1923-2017

    Harry Pearce 1923-2017

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    The funeral has taken place at Poole Crematorium of H A (Harry) Pearce, the very first motorcycle road race winner at Brands Hatch, who passed away peacefully aged 94, after a short illness. Originally from


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