Sam Hewitt

Former World Superbike star Aaron Slight will be guest of honour at the 24th Carole Nash Classic Motorcycle Mechanics Show at Stafford on October 14/15. The New Zealander was as fast and smooth on the track as he was flamboyant and controversial off it, so he should have some entertaining tales to share with show…

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A rare collection of AJW motorcycles from the 1920s and 30s is now on display at the Lakeland Motor Museum in Cumbria, and includes a 1934 Flying Vixen and a 1933 Flying Fox that was tracked down to the Netherlands, where it lay in a completely dismantled state before undergoing a meticulous 18-month restoration. Other…

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Lifelong motorcyclist and freelance journalist Jim Reynolds has been appointed motorcycle consultant for Shropshire, Wales and Gloucestershire by Bonhams auctioneers. Jim’s writing made the columns of countless publications including Motor Cycle News, Classic Bike, The Classic MotorCycle, Bike and Vintage Bike (USA), and he launched Classic Bike Guide with Frank Westworth in 1990. Jim has…

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Looking around the paddock at Donington Park race circuit on the first weekend in May one couldn’t help wondering whether the organisers had read last month’s ‘Pete’s Prattle’, writes Ian Kerr. As the Endurance Legends motorcycle racing series, featuring a four-hour classic endurance race complete with a number of star guests, made its Donington debut,…

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Barry Sheene’s two world championship-winning Suzuki RG500s will be among the star attractions at the Cumbria Steam Gathering at Cark Airfield, Flookburgh, near Grange-over-Sands, Cumbria LA11 7LS, from 9am until 5pm each day over the weekend of July 29/30. The four-cylinder two-strokes, on which Barry won the two titles in 1976 and 1977, had been…

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After the winning ticket in the National Motorcycle Museum’s Winter Raffle was drawn by former World Superbike champion Troy Bayliss live on stage at the International Classic MotorCycle Show at Stafford on Sunday, April 23, Roger Ward from Worksop became the astonished owner of a brand new 1200cc Triumph Thruxton R fitted with a ‘track…

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Bike entries in the Brighton and Hove Motor Club’s Brighton Speed Trials along Madeira Drive on Saturday, September 2 are being organised by the Vintage Motor Cycle Club’s Sprint Section. Details can be found on the section’s website, www.vmccsprint.co.uk/vintage_classic_modern_motorcycle_sprint_racing/Welcome.html or the vmccsprint Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/vmccsprint/ RIGHT: During the Brighton Speed Trials on Saturday, September 2,…

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