Sam Hewitt

One of the UK’s most prestigious motorcycling awards, as awarded by the Sunbeam MCC, is the Pinhard Trophy, presented by the club since 1950 to the best under-21-year-old sporting motorcyclist competing under ACU or SACU jurisdiction. This year, the huge three-gallon cup was presented to 19-year-old trials rider, Toby Martyn, a hugely successful young man who…

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April’s Stafford Show – known officially by its somewhat long-winded title, the 40th Carole Nash International Classic MotorCycle Show – is not only the 40th iteration of the Stafford Show, but will also be encompassing a 1940s theme thanks to the date (April 25 and 26) covering the 75th anniversary of VE Day, and multi-successful…

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While there have been so many people who started their two-wheeled careers by something as simple as messing around with their, and their mates’ bikes, few have gone on to such an impressive career as Colin Seeley. As a teenager, he was fixing bikes in a shed at his home, influenced by the fact that…

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Recognised as one of the UK’s leading tuning specialists, Dave Degens started his racing career back in the 1960s, building Tritons for the café racer tribe, before successfully trying his hand at endurance racing in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, winning the Barcelona 24 Hour Race in both 1965 and 1970 as a privateer…

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Although not all of the evening talks at the National Motor Museum in Beaulieu are focused on powered two-wheelers, most of the talks will be of interest to anyone who likes internal combustion engines and travel, or both. Two of the talks lined up for this spring could be of interest to the average OBM…

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As you’ll have seen from the centre four pages of this issue, the middle weekend of this month sees the Telford International Centre playing host to the Hagon Classic Dirt Bike Show. All the details can be seen on those very four pages, including not only a plan to the show, but a timetable detailing…

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For many of us, a holiday abroad is not a true holiday if it doesn’t involve motorcycles in one form or another, and Dave Manning interrupts a trip stateside to indulge himself in classic bikes and classic racing. Recognised as being the world’s largest motorcycle collection, the Barber Motorsports Museum has more than 1600 motorcycles…

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