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  • February kick-off for NMM Friends’ exclusive activities

    February kick-off for NMM Friends’ exclusive activities

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    Sam Hewitt

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    This year’s special activities for Friends of the National Motorcycle Museum will start with a free Museum Workshop Training Day in the Compton Suite on Saturday, February 24. Two sessions presented by Classic Bike magazine’s Rick Parkington of ‘Rick’s Fixes’ fame, and the museum’s own restoration team will be on hand to discuss some of…

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  • Second classic show at Clifford Arms

    Second classic show at Clifford Arms

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    Sam Hewitt

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    AFTER staying in all day for the royal wedding on Saturday, May 19, why not treat yourself to a great day out at the second annual Clifford Arms Classic Show at Great Haywood, Stafford on Sunday, May 20? The vehicles, including of course motorcycles, will be on display from 11am until 3pm and no fee…

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  • A friend for life – 66 years with a 98cc Bown

    A friend for life – 66 years with a 98cc Bown

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Ted Fletcher tells the story of the Bown lightweight he bought brand new for £72 in 1952 – and still owns to this day. In the autumn of 1952, just before joining the Army for my National Service, I saw a smart little 98cc Bown motorbike for sale brand new in Boston Motors’ showroom in…

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  • Three-pot road burners

    Three-pot road burners

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Although the hallowed BSA and Triumph Group was entering its final years when the then-sensational 740cc triples were launched in 1968, in no time at all they were howling around the race tracks, including the Isle of Man’s Mountain Circuit, to winning effect. The legacy of high-performance three-cylinder engines lives on in today’s Triumph Hinckley…

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  • Suzuki’s follow-my-leader TS250 paid surprisingly big dividends

    Suzuki’s follow-my-leader TS250 paid surprisingly big dividends

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Steve Cooper traces the history and development of Suzuki’s TS250 Savage trail bike. As early as 1964, Suzuki had an eye on the lucrative American off-road bike market. Taking one of its commuter bikes based on the successful K series singles, the company produced the surprisingly competent K15 Hill-Billy, aka the Trail 80. This bike…

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  • New bikes galore as more than 100,000 fans flock to Motorcycle Live at the NEC

    New bikes galore as more than 100,000 fans flock to Motorcycle Live at the NEC

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    Sam Hewitt

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    When Royal Enfield CEO Siddhartha Lal said we’d be surprised by the new Interceptor INT and Continental GT 650 parallel twins that are due to go on sale this year he wasn’t kidding – and they drew the fans like a magnet at the nine-day Motorcycle Live extravaganza at Birmingham’s National Exhibition Centre in November.…

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  • Silver Jubilee year for Historic Police Motorcycle Group

    Silver Jubilee year for Historic Police Motorcycle Group

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Ian Kerr tells the story of a growing group that was set up for the owners of former police and other service motorcycles after a six-bike ride organised by a Royal Parks police officer in 1993. Nobody, whether riding a motorcycle or driving a car, wants to see a police motorcycle appear in the mirror…

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  • The things we did for love…

    The things we did for love…

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Neil Cairns remembers a nightmare ride in the snow, while serving in the RAF, to visit the girlfriend who would eventually become his wife It was on a cold, damp, overcast November Friday evening in 1969 when I set off from RAF St Mawgan in Cornwall on my 1963 Triumph 350cc 3TA. I’d recently been…

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  • To Bologna and back by Ducati 750 Sport

    To Bologna and back by Ducati 750 Sport

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Lindsay Norris, now living in New Zealand, recalls achieving his dream of owning a Ducati 750 Sport, and then riding it to Italy for a tour of the factory where it was born. One day in 1975, while I was still at school, a fellow pupil turned up on a brand new Ducati 750 Sport…

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  • We’ve been racing for 120 years!

    We’ve been racing for 120 years!

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Racing history from 120 years ago was recreated to the day at Brooklands on November 29, when the recently reopened Finishing Straight proved the perfect venue for a celebration of Britain’s very first motor race – and Tony Page was there to witness it. Britain’s very first motor race was organised by Charles Jarrott, and…

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