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Although not all of the evening talks at the National Motor Museum in Beaulieu are focused on powered two-wheelers, most of the talks will be of interest to anyone who likes internal combustion engines and travel, or both. Two of the talks lined up for this spring could be of interest to the average OBM…

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As you’ll have seen from the centre four pages of this issue, the middle weekend of this month sees the Telford International Centre playing host to the Hagon Classic Dirt Bike Show. All the details can be seen on those very four pages, including not only a plan to the show, but a timetable detailing…

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For many of us, a holiday abroad is not a true holiday if it doesn’t involve motorcycles in one form or another, and Dave Manning interrupts a trip stateside to indulge himself in classic bikes and classic racing. Recognised as being the world’s largest motorcycle collection, the Barber Motorsports Museum has more than 1600 motorcycles…

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It’s been more than a year since we heard of David Myers’ trip to the Czech Republic, yet he’s since returned not once but twice, including visiting a classic-specific event in the republic’s second largest city. Having truly enjoyed some shows in Blighty last year, including the omnipresent expanse of the Stafford Show, I’ve also…

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‘Moto Club Indianos’ has elevated the annual ‘Colombres’ event – or ‘Rally International Motos Clasicas’ to be correct – into two weeks of classic motorcycling on ‘real’ motorcycle roads in northern Spain. The early October event is split into two, with the ‘Tour of Northern Spain’ taking up the first week and, as Ian Kerr…

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There can be few cities nowadays where it is possible to take part in a speed event less than a mile from the city centre. Add in the backdrop of the English Channel and it is all part of the unique appeal of the Brighton National Speed Trials. Instituted in 1905 to show the potential…

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Whatever spin you might like to put on the reasons for attending the Kempton Park Autojumble at the beginning of December, which incorporates an off-road and racing show, it was absolutely heaving with visitors. Ian Kerr realised that mild weather, mercifully devoid of rain, was enough of a reason, but the queues for the normal…

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They say that you can wait hours for a bus – then three turn up at once. It seems to be much the same with Royal Enfields and Watsonian sidecars. Just a while ago Mick Payne reported on the Himalayan model fitted with the company’s new International model and remarked ‘Look great on the new…

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