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  • Thundersprint takes a year off in 2015

    Thundersprint takes a year off in 2015

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    Two consecutive years of poor weather have caused a halt for the iconic Thundersprint event in 2015 while organisers Frank and Carol Melling regroup and look at other venue options….

  • Classic Motorcycle Mechanics on sale – October 2014

    Classic Motorcycle Mechanics on sale – October 2014

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    Suzuki GSXR 1100, Kawasaki KZ750, Suzuki Hayabusa, Spa Katana finished at last! Plus BMW R60 ridden, mastering the multimeter, four stroke oil change, Yamaha RD350 rebuild and all the usual regulars. On sale now!

  • New classic bike auction to debut at Bristol show event

    New classic bike auction to debut at Bristol show event

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    Charterhouse Auctions will host a brand new motorcycle sale next February after announcing a partnership with Classic Bike Shows, organiser of the UK’s biggest classic bike events…

  • Museum meeting

    Museum meeting

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    The Midland Section of the Vintage Motor Cycle Club has recently changed its club meeting venue to the National Motorcycle Museum at Bickenhill, Solihull B92 0EJ, meeting on the third Wednesday of each month from 7pm…

  • Celebration of the first Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix

    Celebration of the first Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix

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    There will be a celebratory event to commemorate the first Australian motorcycle Grand Prix. The celebration will be held on the site of the original circuit at Kirkconnell, 30 kilometres east of Bathurst on November 8 this year…

  • Motoball returns to Hamstreet’s Romney Marsh Classic Bikejumble

    Motoball returns to Hamstreet’s Romney Marsh Classic Bikejumble

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    The sport of motoball, or five-a-side motorcycle football, will return to the Romney Marsh Classic Motorcycle Bikejumble at Marsh Road, Hamstreet, near Ashford, Kent TN26 2JD, which will be open from 10am on Sunday, September 21…

  • The way we were: October

    The way we were: October

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    A look back at key events in October throughout the decades, beginning with the cancellation of the motor cycle show in 1914, as the country prepared for war…

  • Thousands find their perfect part at spectacular eurojumble

    Thousands find their perfect part at spectacular eurojumble

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    There was a continental flavour to the 21st Carole Nash Eurojumble over the weekend as thousands of European motorcycle enthusiasts joined their British counterparts to rummage for precious parts at one of the UK’s largest motorcycle autojumbles…

  • News in brief

    News in brief

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    A bikers’ remembrance garden has been opened at the Victoria Bikers’ Pub in Coalville, Leics, where plaques may be mounted on the floral wall for £10, with all profits being forwarded to the Air Ambulance Service…

  • Villiers and the Black Country Vehicle Festival

    Villiers and the Black Country Vehicle Festival

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    When Peter March learned of a festival at the Black Country Living Museum on Sunday, August 10 to celebrate vehicles made in the Black Country, he rang to see if he could enter his Villiers-engined 1931 Francis-Barnett…


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