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  • Free bike photos!

    Free bike photos!

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    Free studio time – and sandwiches… We’re looking for some of the UK’s best classics to photograph and feature in our sister title The Classic MotorCycle, a magazine which specialises in British and European machinery up to about 1970. It’s all free to you – basically, you help us and we’ll help you… please email,…

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  • McFashionistas inspired in style by Grampian Museum

    McFashionistas inspired in style by Grampian Museum

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    Final year fashion studdents at RGU launch their motoring fashion display The exhibition showed the evolving relationship between the motor and fashion industries, with a display of vintage vehicles and fashion trends through the years. In recognition of these close ties, final year fashion management students from RGU’s Aberdeen Business School joined forces with Grampian…

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  • Grand opening at Finnish museum

    Grand opening at Finnish museum

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    This fabulous place, which opened in May 2011, in an old wood mill in a stunning setting on a lakeside, hosted an event with Finnish motorcycle stars and a special theme. For 2012 the theme was the 40th anniversary of Jarno Saarinen’s world championship. Destined for much more, the talented rider was involved in a…

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  • Post vintage class

    Post vintage class

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    As usual, it’s also open to all veteran, vintage and post-vintage machines as well as three-wheelers of any make. But now there will be a class dedicated to machines dating from 1932 to 1940. Post-vintage motorcycles had previously been invited as a ‘demonstration’ but interest was such that it has now been made a full…

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  • British Bike Bonanza

    British Bike Bonanza

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    Dave Jeremiah in action on a CZ Speaking to OBM, organiser Adrian Moss said: “We’ve got Dave Jeremiah as special guest this year and Mick Andrews is going to do the trial and the scramble too. Oh, you’d better mention that the road trial will be the second round of the Rickman Motorcycles British Bike…

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  • The Billing Bike Show

    The Billing Bike Show

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    Show is a celebration of everything that goes on two wheels Last year’s show attracted 10,000 visitors plus the 5000 people who live on site and organisers expect this year to be even bigger. Show-goers can expect to see everything from British classics to Japanese thoroughbreds and American icons. There will also be displays from…

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  • Royal Enfield top gear

    Royal Enfield top gear

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    British made five speeder now available for Royal Enfields Designed to look like the old four-speed box, it has an entirely revised set of gears and selector assembly proven and developed in competition and on the road. While the Indian made five-speed gearbox is a big step forward over the older four-speed models, the new…

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  • Milano Sport helmet

    Milano Sport helmet

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    Milano Sport helmet Called the Milano Sport it is manufactured to ECE 22.05 – the current Europe-wide standard for motorcyclists’ protective headgear – using ABS, a type of thermoplastic noted for its impact resistance and toughness. There are two models in the range and it is the retro styled 380D helmet with a removable peak…

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  • Old time variety at Stafford

    Old time variety at Stafford

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    Giacomo Agostini and John Cooper inspect a vintage Triumph Part of the charm of the 32nd Carole Nash International Classic MotorCycle Show the diversity of the machines. It is true that if 20 enthusiasts were asked to ‘define a classic’ then it would be more than likely that 20 different definitions would be received. For…

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  • More bite for Tiger Cub brakes

    More bite for Tiger Cub brakes

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    Triumph Tiger Cub high lift brake cam This high lift Cub brake cam has been developed for trials bikes initially, but it will make a good difference to road bikes too. In the quest for lightness many trials riders use a Triumph Cub brake drum at either end of the bike. It’s not a great…

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