New & Features

  Almost 200 bikes, including some real Japanese exotica, turned up for the Vintage Japanese Motorcycle Club’s Japanese bikers’ day at the Sammy Miller Motorcycle Museum on Saturday, June 11 – and Nigel Barratt and Steph Murchison are to be congratulated on once again organising such a fabulous event. Awards for the best 1950s/60s bike, the best machines from the 1970s, 80s…

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Visitors flocked to the 36th Carole Nash International Classic MotorCycle Show at Stafford on April 23-24 to make it one of the best yet, with exhibits of the highest quality, another record-breaking Bonhams’ motorcycle sale, hundreds of club and trade stands inside and outside the halls, star guests, special displays and so much more. Another…

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A new world record price was set for a Brough Superior – and for any British motorcycle sold at auction for that matter – when a German bidder in the room paid a staggering £331,900 for a 1938 750cc BS4 that came up as part of the ‘Broughs of Bodmin Moor’ collection during the Bonhams’…

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One of the reasons we sometimes run road tests on British-built retro machines is to compare the old with the new, but is Triumph’s new and extensively-researched 1200cc T120 Bonneville Black muscle bike the best way to go? Frank Melling brings his impressions first-hand. Cubes without vibes – Triumph’s 1200cc Bonneville Black For such a…

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Lots of things are happening at Peter Williams Motorcycles, including the formation of a PWM club with the many benefits that go with it, a project to build an Arter-Matchless replica, a road bike evolution of the John Player Norton and even hand-painted Bell helmets with Peter’s distinctive ‘Big W’ blue and white motif! Peter…

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Starting and finishing at Ross-on-Wye Cattle Market, the first running of a new long-distance ride entitled ‘Herefordshire on the Edge’ takes place on Sunday, June 26. Herefordshire VMCC invites older machines to new long-distance ride Beautiful vistas like this are awaiting all who take up the challenge of the VMCC’s inaugural ‘Herefordshire on the Edge’…

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Organised by the North East section of the Vintage Motor Cycle Club, the highly-regarded Golden Era Run for motorcycles and three-wheelers built before 1931 will take place at the Yorkshire Air Museum at Elvington, near York, on Sunday, July 24. Make a date for the Golden Era Run Notable vintage restorer and Golden Era Run…

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In mid-February 1930, a crowd gathered at Croydon Aerodrome to witness the very first Sunbeam Motor Cycle Club’s Pioneer Run to Brighton for pre-1914 motorcycles – which, it has to be said, were not all that old at the time! Sunbeam Club’s Pioneer Run hits 77 not out On his way to winning the Laurie…

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