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  • Welsh Motoring Auction cancelled

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    The annual Welsh Motoring Auction on June 18th at Cothi Bridge has been reluctantly cancelled by the Auctioneers Peter Francis of Carmarthen.

  • Italy shows how to keep classic bikes alive, kicking and FUN!

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    The ASI Moto Show has to be one of the best-kept secrets of the classic bike world in the UK – which, considering the advertising the Italian club has done over the 16 years it’s been running, is somewhat surprising, writes Ian Kerr, with pictures by himself and Tony Page. 

  • Wobbling ‘Dad’s Army’ invades Northern Ireland!

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    Picture the Dad’s Army scene as Captain Mainwaring addresses his mainly past their ‘sell-by’ date squad, writes Ted Bemand. 

  • 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. 

  • 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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