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Nigel has already posted an advertisement on eBay offering a £500 reward for the safe return of his bike, which carries the frame number 17384 and engine number T12017384. He says the Cub, stolen from a lock-up in Wendover on October 1, has a reconditioned original Amal carb and the right-hand fork seal weeps a…

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Sammy, Joel and the JCM trials bike that is now on display in the museum Sammy himself won many events on the 323cc, five-speed machine, with an 82 x 60mm bore and stroke, and it is on display in the museum’s off-road section. The museum displays more than 340 motorcycles with trials and road racing…

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Visitors mill around vehicles of all shapes and sizes, including a good turn-out of motorcycles and scooters, at the Tewkesbury Classic Vehicle Festival Organised by the Rotary Club of Tewkesbury, with all profits going to local, national and international charities, the show boasted an estimated 700 vehicles, 5000 visitors and over 100 stallholders, along with…

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These New Imperials and other revered British motorcycles are moved out of the way to make room for the monthly VMCC section club meetings There is full and free access to the museum on club nights, with refreshments available, and all VMCC members are free to visit. Non-members are also welcome, and can be sure…

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For the first time there will also be an auction of motorcycles and spares, with expected lots including a 1994 Moto Guzzi California, British bike autojumble items, a quantity of motorcycle wheels, enamel signs and petrol cans. Lots can be entered from 10am until noon, and the auction will begin at 1pm. There is no…

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Remembrance garden at Victoria Bikers Pub Full details of the garden, the pub and all the motorcycling activities that take place there are available by visiting www.vicbikerspub.co.uk • First World War display at Motorcycle Live Motorcycle Live will feature a display of mint-condition motorcycles from the First World War as well as showing all the…

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He was told he could sign in as a late entrant on the day. When this had been done, he was greeted warmly by the volunteers and shown to his parking place, and soon his bike was surrounded by around 35 motorcycles, mostly Sunbeam and AJS. Although he didn’t make anything of the lack of…

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RIGHT: UL 656, the penultimate Brough SS100 that Lawrence of Arabia owned, attracts admiring glances at the Brough Rally at Middle Aston House, Middle Aston, Oxfordshire The machine used to be in Devon’s Coombe Martin Motorcycle Museum (now closed) and has been owned by the same family for many years. Although no longer in running…

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Organised in memory of VMCC founder Titch Allen, it boasted club stands galore, classic trials riding demonstrations by members of the Taverners and visiting Dabbers club, the arrival of John Wallis on his ‘red-nosed’ 1924 Brough Superior SS80 after his mammoth 3800 mile, month long tour of England, Scotland and Wales in support of Comic…

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Groups of riders were flagged off on their various routes over the east Mendips and mid-Somerset by the mayor, assisted by the town crier, and after meeting up for coffee at Walton village hall, they took different routes back to Wells Football Club for lunch. In the afternoon there were more scenic routes, the ‘tortoises’…

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