With total bids exceeding £300,000, the Charterhouse auction of classic and vintage motorcycles at the 38th Carole Nash Classic MotorCycle Show at the Royal Bath & West Showground, Shepton Mallet, over the weekend of February
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Vincent Owners’ Club and Tramway Village plan second annual Classic Motorcycle Day
Following the success of last year’s pioneering event, the Crich Tramway Village-based National Tramway Museum, in conjunction with members of the Vincent Owners’ Club, will be running a second Classic Motorcycle Day at the scenic
Read moreNow that’s what we used to call racing!
Today it’s hard to imagine 200-mile road races on dodgy road surfaces, with riders clipping straw bales at every corner – but that’s exactly how it was at the Leinster ‘200’ at Wicklow, in the
Read more1931 Coventry-Eagle restored at the Sammy Miller Museum
This 198cc Coventry-Eagle is the latest restoration to emerge from the workshop at the Sammy Miller Museum. The owner, who collected it in January, has now taken it back to Cornwall, where he intends to
Read more1928 BSA disappears from Essex workshop
Glen Grindod has emailed us to say that a 1928 BSA S28 DeLuxe that he was restoring was stolen from his workshop in Fyfield, Essex, at the beginning of January. When he came across the
Read moreAnother Norton celebration at Ardingly
More than 100 years of Norton will be celebrated at the South of England Classic Bike Show & Jumble on Sunday, March 25 at The South of England Showground, Ardingly, West Sussex RH17 6TL. Nortons
Read moreSlippery Sam had nothing on this!
This amazing picture taken at Laxey, Isle of Man, shows how the ‘runaway tram’ problem on the Snaefell Mountain Railway has finally been solved – and don’t forget you saw it in Old Bike Mart
Read morePre-production Honda CB750 could steal the show at H&H Classics’ NMM motorcycle sale
A pre-production Honda CB750 four, one of only two survivors from the four originally largely handmade in Japan around 1968, was due to come up for sale at the H&H Classics sale at the National
Read moreRTA CHANGES AND ACU CONCERNS SCUPPER 2018 EPPYNT PLANS
Welsh Road Race is postponed until 2019 Because of recent legislative changes to the Road Traffic Act in Wales, the directors of the planned Welsh Road Race at the historic Eppynt circuit in August have
Read moreMarch 2018 Issue Delayed
Due to the inclement weather conditions the March 2018 issue of Old Bike Mart is running late. Subject to an improving picture with the weather we hope to see it posted early next week.
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