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With a bright new logo and a complete update of its www.lansdowneclassicseries.co.uk website, the Lansdowne Classic Series will be celebrating its 20th year of top road racing in style. The 2018 season will consist of seven Championship rounds with the Classic Racing Motorcycle Club, British Motor Cycle Racing Club, North Glos Racing, Endurance Legends and…

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Those who enjoyed a ride-out to the Crich Tramway Village near Matlock, Derbyshire, over Easter found themselves in a realistic wartime situation with identity card checks, air-raid warnings and the sounds of low-flying aircraft as the museum staged its WWII/1940s Era Weekend. As vintage trams rumbled by, historic road and military vehicles both static and…

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The world famous 1954 classic BMW Rennsport, which almost won the world championship with the great Walter Zeller – is set to be displayed on the Hagon Shocks stand at the fast approaching International Classic MotorCycle Show. The bike sits amongst innumerable treasures in Sammy’s collection, and has been paraded at Goodwood, Donington, Mallory, Verano…

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Barry Lester from Lyme Park, Disley, Cheshire, sends us these photos of his immaculate 441cc BSA Victor outfit, and tells us that the sidecar is a Spirit of America Eagle, in near-unused condition, dating from 1972-3. “It’s quite light, so I have put some ballast in it, and the 30bhp Victor has no problem in…

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Keith Rhodes tells the heart-warming story of Ray Coker, who conquered dyslexia to become a Royal Military Police motorcycle instructor, team trials rider and brilliantly successful businessman – and enjoys his motorcycle collection to this day. Ray Coker has been defying the odds ever since, along with hundreds of other children, he was evacuated from…

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Those readers who receive this issue just before the H&H Classic Motorcycle Auction at the National Motorcycle Museum on Sunday, March 4 might like to know that the online auction catalogue can be found at www.handh.co.uk . As well as the rare and historic 750cc Honda four described on the website, the range of lots…

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David Sykes, who races vintage outfits with British Historic Racing, is organising a ‘have-a-go’ BHR practice day for genuine wannabe sidecar drivers and passengers at Mallory Park on Friday, March 23. They will be able to drive BEARS-spec machines, mainly K-series BMWs, and passengers will be on a variety of outfits. As an incentive, the…

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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 3-4 was another great success. Although Charterhouse is based in the West Country, almost 90 machines were entered from all…

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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 hilltop venue on Sunday, July 1. A charitable organisation with an army of volunteers, the museum is dedicated to preserving…

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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 Irish Republic, back in 1957. Sammy Miller MBE was going through some archives last November when he came across a…

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