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  • 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. 

  • Bike Shed London

    Bike Shed London

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    THE BIKE SHED almost defies definition.  

  • Southern Classic Motorcycle Show

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    THE ANNUAL KEMPTON PARK show and bike jumble attracted its fair share of interesting machinery. 

  • Veteran ride

    Veteran ride

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    FORMER SOLDIER Colin Stinson plans to ride 5000 miles around the coast of Britain in 25 days, aboard his 1967 Metisse scrambler. He’s raising funds for ABF The Soldiers’ Charity. 

  • ASI MOTO SHOW

    ASI MOTO SHOW

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    Not too far from many iconic two- and four-wheeled factories and museums in northern Italy is the Autodromo di Varano de’ Melegari.  

  • BRISTOL BEATS THE STORMS

    BRISTOL BEATS THE STORMS

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    Star of the wind and rain swept Carole Nash Bristol Classic MotorCycle Show at the Bath & West Showground was local legend Henry Body. Winners all – Despite the inclement weather the Bristol Show winners

  • Obituary – Steve Murray

    Obituary – Steve Murray

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    Steve giving Tommy Robb some words of advice at Daytona. Cheshire has, over the years, produced many exciting and gifted racing motorcyclists of distinction, but one of the most loved and charismatic of all, Steve

  • TEAM MOLNAR MANX

    TEAM MOLNAR MANX

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    Last year proved to be the team’s most successful season, with 116 race starts and only two mechanical failures and Chris Firmin taking bike number 001, the first ever built by Andy Molnar, back in


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