When the idea of a Brackley motorcycle meeting in the centre of the Northamptonshire town was first mooted in 2008, little did the organisers know that it would turn into one of the UK’s biggest
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Yet more to enjoy at NMM’s Motorcycle Live open day
Plans are shaping up for the third National Motorcycle Museum Live free open day on Saturday, November 5. The event will include two ‘Stars on Stage’ presentations with racing legends Carl Fogarty and Jamie Whitham
Read moreOozing with nostalgia – Mallory Park’s 60th birthday bonanza
Just too late to include in our last issue, but oozing with road racing nostalgia, the Mallory Bike Bonanza over the weekend of July 30/31 also celebrated 60 years of the famous Leicestershire circuit, and
Read moreWirral Wobblers’ parking update
After arriving in Belfast towards the end of their charity fundraising tour of Northern Ireland, the National Autocycle & Cyclemotor Club’s Wirral Wobblers got a nasty surprise in the shape of 17 parking tickets placed
Read moreFollow that coach – on a 88c James Comet!
The letter in OBM (June) about bike shop tours of Liverpool rekindled memories of 1958-59 and my first bikes as a 16-year-old apprentice mechanic on £3 per week. All the big car dealers, Watson’s (Morris/Jaguar),
Read moreConquering heroes on three wheels!
Nigel Darken tells the story of the ‘Tour de Lard’ – a madcap idea involving two motorcycle combinations and three very secondhand Reliant three-wheelers that raised no less than £27,000 for charity. Reading an article
Read moreThe golden years of DMW
Well-built and innovative, the West Midlands-manufactured DMW motorcycles were among the most sought-after lightweights of their day, as these Mortons Archive photos show. Despite DMW’s relatively brief period in serious motorcycle production, the firm that
Read moreVMCC section embraces the Roaring Twenties
The East Sussex section of the Vintage Motor Cycle Club presented a fine selection of machinery at a Roaring Twenties Day in Bexhill-on-Sea recently, with motorcycles around the VMCC stand including a period 1925 James,
Read moreA Norton Navigator’s tale – the rescuer rescued
Les Orme tells how, many years after the event, he managed to return the favour to a Norton Navigator that had rescued him from a breakdown crisis in France. My motorcycling days started in 1959,
Read moreSweltering success for Skipton’s record-breaking Big Bike Sunday
Records were broken during the Girder Fork & Classic Motorcycle Club’s 20th anniversary year when 1300 visitors – a big increase over last year’s 850 – supported the club’s Big Bike Sunday charity event at
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