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The Motorcycle Action Group has presented Mortons Media Group’s Motorcycle Sport & Leisure magazine with its Media Award for informed, accurate, balanced and ethical reporting of issues relating to motorcycling and motorcyclists. MAG’s vice-chairman Andy Carrott said: “I nominated Motorcycle Sport & Leisure as it is perhaps the only mainstream motorcycling magazine that has consistently…

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It was on a bright, clear and sunny October 14, 1066 that Duke William of Normandy set sail across the English Channel to beat King Harold and his Saxon soldiers in the Battle of Hastings, and for some obscure reason that disastrous and unmitigated defeat is still celebrated each year, writes Keith Rhodes. However on…

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Local sidecar crew Ian Reavley and Colin Goode from Blyth, Northumberland, didn’t even have to leave the county to compete in the 45th Beamish Trophy Trial on September 17 – and on their 1935 Norton combination they beat their fellow sidecar competitors and all the solo riders as well to take home the Richard Hoare…

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Sherborne auctioneers Charterhouse are selling six of the world famous Royal Signals Motorcycle Display Team Triumph motorcycles at their Sherborne salerooms on Thursday, November 16. More commonly known as the White Helmets, the display team was a group of serving soldiers from the Royal Corps of Signals who performed public displays of motorcycling skills, aerobatics…

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Even the weather played ball for the 24th Carole Nash Classic Motorcycle Mechanics Show at the Staffordshire County Showground on October 14-15, when former Kiwi World Superbike star Aaron Slight told entertaining stories on stage with compere Steve Plater. After each session, large queues formed of people who wanted to meet Aaron and have items…

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It’s strange how bikes seem to get heavier as we become older, and with the debate about retro-styled bikes from the Far East still raging, we thought some readers might like an idea about what the best of such machines are really like to ride. There appears to be an abundance of relatively low-priced 125cc…

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To mark 50 years since the introduction of the Norton Commando at the Earls Court Show in 1967, Peter Williams will be guest of honour at the South of England Classic Motorcycle Show and Bikejumble at Ardingly, West Sussex, on Sunday, October 29. Bikes booked to appear include Peter’s original 1973 JPN Monocoque, a genuine…

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Gerrit Wolsink, twice runner-up in the world motocross championship, and four-times British sidecar champion Colin Dommett will be star guests for the Telford Classic Off-Road Show on February 18-19. The spectacular Dutch dentist was one of the giants of the 1970s motocross scene, finishing in the top three places in each of the five years…

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Great weather, a great crowd and great atmosphere marked the 20th Sammy Miller Run on Sunday, August 27, but the sweltering conditions made the chosen 59-mile route quite enough for most riders, who were waved off by clerk of the course Percy Gosling. Percy, who is now standing down after fulfilling the role for two…

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With a new Avon Storm 3D X-M rear tyre fitted to his Harley-Davidson Street Rod, Polish stunt rider Maciej Bielicki has set a new world record for the longest recorded rolling burn-out on a motorcycle. The specially closed road near the H-D dealership in Rzeszow in south-east Poland included a small roundabout that had to…

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