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A wildlife park complete with big cats – and other wild animals normally found at a zoo – is not somewhere you would normally expect to go for a celebration of 92 years of speedway. However, Ian Kerr finds that the explanation is simple, as the Paradise Wildlife Park near Broxbourne in Hertfordshire is also…

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Regardless of how much of a show is held indoors, inclement weather will inevitably create issues, as Dave Manning found while surfing his way across country to Shropshire… Being held on one of the February weekends in which a storm of one name or another battered the British countryside meant that not only was travelling…

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While so many events are being cancelled and postponed, it still seems reasonably safe to consider that those towards the end of the summer will be taking place. So, it’s time to put self-isolation to the back of your mind, and think ahead to the time when we’ll be able to drag our classics out…

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Now firmly established in the calendar for motorcycles and three-wheelers made before January 1931, the Golden Era Run, as organised by the North East Section of the VMCC, is set to hold its 12th run on Sunday July 26, virus permitting. This friendly, non-competitive event offers opportunities to ride in good company over carefully chosen…

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Somehow managing to take advantage of what little space is left in the many halls of the National Motorcycle Museum, there’s an exciting new display in Hall 2 of the museum, which will be available to see until the end of 2020. This new feature is dedicated to John ‘Moon Eyes’ Cooper and includes not…

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As a pair of boots that suit classic road-riding, green laning, trails and scrambles, these TCX Terrain 3 boots are near ideal. They’re light, surprisingly comfortable and pliant, even when brand new, for a pair of heavily armoured off-road boots, and not with the garishbright colours that most modern off-road footwear is adorned with. Fastened…

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Sherborne-based Charterhouse Auctioneers is delighted to announce ex-bike and car racer, George Beale, has joined its classic and vintage motorcycle and car department. George’s motorsports career started in 1965 when he competed in motorcycle trials and scrambles, and it continues today – he was a class winner in the 2018 Gordon Bennett Classic Car Rally.…

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Being something of an active club, the Hesketh Owners Club set themselves a photographic competition last year, and it finally came to a conclusion last month. I t was meant to be a bit of fun but it ran a bit like an auction; nobody wanted to make the opening bid – but then it…

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While the ever-changing self-isolation and current lockdown situations are causing havoc with events all around the country, this year’s Bamburgh Run – taking place on Sunday, June 14 – is potentially still set to run, being hosted from a new venue, Lady Waterford Hall in Ford Village, Northumberland. The run has started at Bamburgh Castle…

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The Gold Star Owners Club erected a memorial stone on Saturday, November 16 last year in Fingland, Cumbria, near the site where Wal Handley died on November 15, 1941. The decision to erect the memorial was made by the Gold Star Owners Club a few years ago, but these things take time – finding a…

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