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  • Custom classics

    Custom classics

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    CONFRONTED BY A HALL crammed full of automotive ingenuity, you might wonder what could possibly unite the 100-plus bikes that formed the central display at Kickback Chelsea in December.  

  • Southern classic off-road show

    Southern classic off-road show

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    THE CROWDS CRAMMED in to Kempton Park just before Christmas for the now regular Southern Classic Off-Road Show.  

  • Ealing Council blames Government cutbacks for financial threat to London Motorcycle Museum

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    Like so many others, the London Motorcycle Museum, located in a historic building close to the A40, is the result of one man’s drive, determination and, it could be argued, obsession in collecting Triumph machines, writes Ian Kerr. 

  • The parallel twin lives longer still!

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    Triumph’s new Street Twin is everything the Meriden Bonnie might have been, writes Frank Melling. 

  • James Whitham stands in as special guest at Newark Classic Bike Guide winter show

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    Race ace, TV commentator and thoroughly decent all-round bloke, James Whitham will be the star guest at the Carole Nash Classic Bike Guide Winter Classic at the Newark Showground on January 9-10. 

  • ‘Broughs of Bodmin Moor’ will be offered at Bonhams’ Stafford sale

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    They were believed to have been destroyed, but last year eight long-lost Brough Superior motorcycles were discovered in a Cornish village and, unveiled for the first time in 50 years, will be offered at Bonhams’ Sale of Important Collectors’ Motorcycles at Stafford on April 24. 

  • ‘All makes’ emphasised on Sunbeam MCC’s new logo

    ‘All makes’ emphasised on Sunbeam MCC’s new logo

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    Broadcasting the message that the club is for all makes of veteran, vintage and post-vintage motorcycles up to 1939, the Sunbeam Motor Cycle Club has added a banner to its logo stressing the fact.  

  • 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.

  • Vincent twin’s lucky winner

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    The National Motorcycle Museum’s summer 2015 raffle to win a 1947 Vincent Rapide was drawn by road racing superstars Carl Fogarty, Jamie Whitham and Phil Read at the Museum LIVE open day on October 31. 

  • Chestnut woods make perfect setting for Sidcup’s Jack Thompson British Bike Trial

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    The emphasis will be on British rather than Classic or Pre-65 trials irons when the 26th running of the Jack Thompson British Bike Trial is organised by the Sidcup & District Motorcycle Club in the delightful chestnut woods surrounding the Canada Heights international motocross course on Sunday, December 6, writes Brian Edwards.  


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