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Motorbike insurance is where Carole Nash started and they continue to offer outstanding cover with fantastic rates and a wealth of added-value features.

Machine Mart – Tools & Machinery

Lexham InsuranceThe UKs leading supplier of tools and garage equipment.  From motorcycle lifts to tool chests, we’ve got thousands of tools available online, in any of our 53 stores nationwide or via telesales.  Order your FREE catalogue today.

Tel: 0844 880 1250
Web: www.machinemart.co.uk
Email: sales@machinemart.co.uk

Lexham InsuranceLexham Insurance

Classic motorcycle & scooter insurance.
Tel: 0845 6010428
Web: www.lexhaminsurance.co.uk 

Blazing Trails

Blazing TrailsCall for a free brochure
Tel: 01293 533338
Web:www.jewelholidays.com
Web:www.blazingtrailstours.com

The Tap & Die Co

The Tap & Die Co is the largest specialist company in London, UK for taps, dies, dienuts, drills, reamers, milling cutters, slitting saws etc.

Address: 445 West Green Road, London N15 3PL, UK
Tel:+44 (0)20 8888 1865
Fax: +44 (0)20 8888 4613
Web: Catalog website : www.tapdie.com
E-commerced website : www.tap-die.com
See what customers say About Us :http://www.tap-die.com/contents/en-uk/d6_What_Customers_Say_About_Us.html

Motorcycle Racer - At Motorcycle Racer we aim to bring the excitement of the sport to the fans. In this personality driven industry, Motorcycle Racer gives the reader exclusive interviews with the top riders from across the globe.
Extensive technical information about the top racing machinery is regularly featured, our team providing the specs, stunning photography and the inside track on racebike development.

Classic and modern motorcyclist links

Classic Dirt Bike magazine
Published quarterly and printed on high gloss art paper with sumptuous glossy covers, this will the one magazine no off road enthusiast will want to be without.
Classic Dirt Bike magazine: is about the bikes and the personalities of the sport, covering pre-65 machines, classic and twin shocks, trials as well as scrambling/motocross and enduros.

The Old Bike Shop - Old Bike Mart's secure online shop - has magazine-related merchandise, our fantatsic route map holders and classic books.

The Classic MotorCycle - Old Bike Mart's sister magazine, now over 100 pages packed with reviews, stories, tests, historic information and reccommendations.

Classic Motorcycle Mechanics - A long established monthly magazine dedicated to Japanese motorcycles from the 60s, 70s and 80s.

Classic Racer - A magazine where legends truly live on. From racer tests of historic machinery, written by those who can actually find the limit, to tales of those who made the sport great, Classic Racer takes you so close you can actually smell the Castrol R. With the world's finest archive, and an editorial team who live and breathe the sport the only way you'll get closer will be to put on your leathers.

Island Racer Annual
Morton's Motorcycle Media's annual TT celebratory tome, Island Racer, is now on sale.

Packed with interviews with riders past and present, machine tests, team profiles, historical articles and a guide to where to watch - among other features!

Classic Bike Guide - Classic Bike Guide is a down-to-earth, practical - and sometimes irreverent - magazine that gets right to the heart of the classic bike world. With a mixture of features, tests, reviews and event reports it is the title that has become a must for the active rider and restorer. Classic Bike Guide magazine - with the biggest and best readers' adverts - FREE"

Used Bike Guide - Used Bike Guide is the essential magazine for anyone looking to buy or sell a second-hand motorbike. Every two months the UBG offers dozens of real-life stories about riders and their bikes as well as a highly detailed 'Buyer's Bible' all in a packed 196-page A5 perfect bound Magazine!

Motorcycle Sport & Leisure - Motorcycle Sport & Leisure is Britain's longest-running motorcycle publication, now celebrating its 43rd year, and has a huge core of fans. The magazine prides itself on featuring a huge range of motorcycling pursuits, reflecting all aspects of biking and the people that are involved. Combining thorough log-distance tests, terrific touring tales, the latest news and in-depth features about cutting edge developments in both both motorcycles and riding kit, MSL has become the only genuinely viable alternative to the knee-down magazine brigade.

Twist & Go Magazine
The new look is fresher, feisty and more suited to the fast moving world of the younger – or younger at heart – rider. The TAG team won’t be losing sight of the fact that scooters remain the coolest – and most practical – form of urban transport, but they’ll be spreading their wings to sample geared mopeds, learner legal motorbikes, quads, minimotos – in fact anything that’s fun and funky on two wheels.

Scootering Magazine
The UK's biggest and best scootering magazine - over 130 pages of top scooter features, reviews, events and the massive 48 page scooter trader.

Scooterist Scene Magazine
Scooterist Scene is a bi-monthly magazine dedicated purely to the classic & modern scooterist, with a very personal view on scootering events and features. Scooterist Scene is now owned by Mortons Motorcycle Media, but still managed and edited by Mau Spencer, with editorial supplied by clubs and writers from across Britian.

Classic Issues - THE place to browse and buy reproduced ROAD TESTS and SERVICE SHEETS. Over 2000 Road Tests and hundreds of Services Sheets carefully copied from original articles in our magazines, dating back to 1914. Buy securely online.

The site also has hundreds of back issues on sale too!

Classic Bike Shows - The Classic MotorCycle Show website, for information, accommodation and exhibitor details and secure online ticket ordering.


Heritage Publication Links

Old Glory Magazine - Old Glory is Britain's best selling steam and vintage restoration magazine, encompassing the world of steam power as well as topics as wide ranging as boats, cars, motorbikes, tractors to aircraft. So if it's traction engines in their many forms, steam rollers or stationary steam engines, check it out.

Heritage Commercials - Heritage Commercials for classic road transport, from vans to trucks, buses and coaches, fire engines and military vehicles. Many pages of news and vintage features every month.

Heritage Railway - Heritage Railway for news on UK preserved railways and locomotives with links to the railways themselves for more detailed information, plus special trains to see on the national railway. A must for the railway enthusiast.

Tractor Magazine
Tractor magazine is a celebration of the farm tractor and its development over a hundred years, and we'll meet owners and restorers and report from the top events -- but there's much more to it than that, as the title implies.

From seed time to harvest, from dairy to stackyard, our farming heritage is as important as the tractors themselves, and in Tractor & Farming Heritage we'll look back to the way things were on the farm between and during the great wars and through to the 1950s and 60s.

Leisure Publication Links

Towpath Talk - Towpath Talk is a three-weekly newspaper covering life and leisure around UK's extensive canal network. From fascinating insights into life on a canal, to great places to explore whilst on a holiday, Towpath Talk is a great way to find out what's going on in British waterways. Canal-based holidays are growing in popularity, with hundreds of miles to explore, and every canal has unique feautures along its banks - from fine old English pubs to quaint villages and historic points. Towpath Talk is available from canal-side locations, or you can secure your copy to be delivered direct.


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RDX sales and services we stock a wide range of vehicles - from scooters and classic bikes to other vehicles.

AJS and Matchless (USA) [USA based site]
"AJS & Matchless Owners Club North American Section" Also running an email group for AJS & Matchless.

Amulree Publications [UK based site]
"Formed in 1984, Amulree Publications specialises in both Manx and motorcycling publications.."

Birmingham Testers Run [UK based site]
Classic motorcycle event from the old Ariel, BSA, Norton & Velocette factories in Birmingham open to all bikes and riders.

BSA Owners Club of the Netherlands [Netherlands based site]
"We are a club with approximately 700 members. Our Goal is to unite people with a common interest towards Veteran and classic motorcycles produced by the Birmingham Small Arms Co. until 1973.."

Central Wheel [UK based site]
"We are manufacturers of Spokes & Nipples and offer a full Wheelbuilding service. We are the appointed Wheelbuilders for Triumph and The National Motorcycle Museum."

Classic Motor Monthly online [UK based site]
"For Classifieds, for Events, for Spares & Services." (Car based site)

Classic Racing Motorcycle Club [UK based site]
"Classic Racing Motorcycle Club Home site"

Classictransfers [UK based site]
"Transfers and Decals for Classic Motorcycles Over 25 Years Old"

CZECHPOINT Jawa CZ Motorcycles of Czechoslovakia [USA based site]
"This website is dedicated to the motorcycles of Czechoslovakia, in particular Jawa, CZ, and ESO. Off-road motorcycles, (vintage motocross & ISDT).."

The Dot Motorcycle Club [Manchester, UK based site]
The DOT Motorcycle Club is now into its second year and gaining members. It was formed to ensure that DOT motorcycles are used and restored.

Dunstall Dominator Website [Unknown location]
"These pages are intended to provide both Dunstall owners, and those interested in a significant period of history for the British motorcycle industry, with as much information as is available today."

EASTERN EUROPEAN VINTAGE BIKE RALLY [Transylvania]
Transylvania, Turda - Turului Gorge - July 2007
A Transylvania Riders MC Rally
Join Transylvania Rider’s Eastern European Vintage Bike Rally this July in Turda, Romania. We gather to remember old times and enjoy the new ones! Don’t miss Cheetah bike race on the salt track and Vintage bike street race in Turda - a competition founded in 1947.

Frost Auto Restoration Techniques www.frost.co.uk
Tools & Equipment for the restorer, competitor, and craftsman : Oils, Painting, Plating, Rust, Polishing, Bodywork, Workshop Machines, Mechanical, Books & Videos and more. Agents for Millers Oils, POR-15 (paint), Eastwood (paint), One Grand (polishing), Dinitrol (Rust prevention). Mail order and online company.
Call now to request you free catalogue: 01706 658 619.

LPMCC [UK based site]
This non-profit site is an archive of the Leicester Phoenix Motorcycle Club and contains material from the 60s to more recent. The objective is to keep old members in contact and perhaps inform and amuse some of the present riders.

Moto Morini [EU based site in English / Italian]
Moto Morini is a historical Italian company, as yet much appreciated all over the world.

Norman White [UK based site]
Welcome to the home of precision motorcycle engineering.

Pre 65 Motocross Club [UK based site] UPDATED WEBSITE
Website located at http://www.pre65.com. The club specialises in classic scrambles, running around 8 scramble events per year at 6 different venues. We run a number of race categories including Pre-60, Pre-65, Greeves, Sidecar and Pre-74 championships.

RED MARLEY [UK based site]
The AJS & Matchless owners club Red Marley Hill Climb website. On this website you can find out about last year's event and this year's event. Also view a few pictures new and old and all the Information you will ever need to know on the old event and the new event.

Robin James engineering [UK site]
The Concours awards-winning, British restorer of classic motorcycles, Robin James - founded in 1979.

SRX600.NET [UK based site]
Pages dedicated to the Yamaha SRX600. They have been constructed as an aid to owners of European Specification SRX600's (1XL), who do not have access to the genuine Yamaha workshop manual.

Suzuki T20 'Super Six' [UK based site]
"A complete guide to owning, restoring or racing a T20. There is a whole section dedicated to motorcycle restoration, as well as a new section on 'building a Classic Racer.

www.suzuki-gt.co.UK
Website dedicated to the SuzUKi GT200 X5 and GT250 X7 and seeks to address the lack of information on these classic bikes. Intentions are to:
Amass as much technical information as possible, tips, tricks etc.
Include a Discussion board.
Have a for sale/wanted section for spares and bikes.
Be open to suggestion (polite ones please!)

The Association of Old Vehicle Clubs [UK based site]
The Association of Old Vehicle Clubs in N. Ireland Ltd (AOVC)

The JAWA-CZ Owners Club of Great Britain and Eire [UK based site]
"We are a group of enthusiastic motorcyclists with a special interest in all makes of motorcycles and scooters from Czechoslovakia..."

The North Devon British Motorcycle Owners Club [UK based site]
"Welcome to the West Country's most active Motorcycle Club. The Club is based at Fremington (between Barnstaple & Bideford), at The Fox & Hounds."

The Speed Twin Project [UK based site]
A personal site with informtion and stories on The 1947 Speed Twin 500T.

Thumper Club [UK based site]
A site for the Thumper Club of Great Britian.

Vincent HRD [UK based site]
This is the Vincent HRD Owners Club website

Vintage Dirt Track Racers Association [USA based site]
The VDTRA is dedicated to the "Preservation of American Grassroots flattrack motorcycle racing." The sanctioning organization now in its 13th year of operation offers its members 24 events in an eight state region of the middle western United States.

VMCC Racing [UK based site]
Vintage Motor Cycle Club Racing Section.

VOC [UK based site]
Official Vincent owners club site. Joining details, machine history and archives, Clubroom (members only), rallies, Events, Section pages and contacts, machine registrar.

Zweiradmuseum! [NL based site]
We manufacture original facsimilies from STEIB LS 200, S 350, S 500 and TR 500 just like those produced in Nurnberg in the mid-50s. STEIB sidecars were offered as standard equipment for Motorcycle firms from that era.


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