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Dave Manning heads to deepest Staffordshire to find a collection of vintage machinery that is begging to be ridden. While the very fact that you’re reading Old Bike Mart shows that you probably have an interest in motorcycles of a certain age, it doesn’t necessarily follow that each and every reader owns a large and…

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Northern Ireland’s Jonathan Rea MBE was awarded the Royal Automobile Club’s Torrens Trophy on Thursday, March 29 – the day our April issue went to press – at the Pall Mall Clubhouse for being the first rider to win three consecutive World Superbike Championships. For Rea, it was only the latest in a string of…

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By courtesy of the Sammy Miller Museum, visitors to the Vintage Motor Cycle Club’s Festival of 1000 Bikes at Mallory Park on July 7-8 will thrill to the sounds of two of the most exotic racing motorcycles ever built – the five-speed 498cc Moto Guzzi V8 and the four-speed 500cc double-overhead-camshaft Gilera as raced by…

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Martin Hamer looks back fondly on a wet Scottish Highland tour with a dear friend on a misfiring 500cc Honda four, thanks to water in the works. Reading the November 2017 issue of Old Bike Mart, and in particular Lindsey Norris’s article relating to the challenges he faced with his Honda 400/4 when travelling to…

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The BMW Airhead Fellowship, a non-profit-making organisation run by Peter Ardron and dedicated to keeping as many air-cooled ‘R’-series BMWs as possible on the road, is planning an ambitious event at the Lincolnshire Showground in aid of the Lincolnshire & Nottinghamshire Air Ambulance from July 13-15. Unique in the history of the BMW vintage and…

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Recalling being blown into the weeds by a sharp-sounding and decidedly rapid JH Special Triumph Tiger Cub, John McCrink visits the man who created it and marvels at his home-brewed craftsmanship. About 10 years ago, while taking part in one of Pete Remington’s excellent Nostalgia Road Runs in the Lake District, I was riding out…

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Despite snow on the ground and a bitterly cold wind, the Sunbeam Motor Cycle Club’s classic season-opener on Sunday, March 18 brought determination by the bucketload, writes Ian Kerr. Although amber weather warnings about the ‘Mini Beast from the East’ threatened cancellation of this year’s 79th Pioneer Run on Sunday, March 18, after careful consideration…

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Open to classic and modern motorcycles, The Engineerium Motorcycle Run organised by the Sussex British Motorcycle Owners’ Club in partnership with Rotary in Brighton and Hove will take place on Sunday, April 22, with proceeds in support of the Kamelia Kids Children’s Centre in Worthing. The start and finish will be at Blatchington Mill School,…

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The 10th Golden Era Run being organised by the North East Section of the Vintage Motor Cycle Club at the Yorkshire Air Museum at Elvington, near York, on Sunday, July 29 will be themed to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War. Motorcycles and three-wheelers built before January 1931 will…

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Guest of honour at the Trident & Rocket 3 Owners’ Club’s Beezumph 27 rally on Anglesey on July 13-14 will be TT hero Tony Jefferies, who will give a special talk about his racing career on the Friday evening before presenting the event awards the following day. Born in 1948, Tony started his stunning TT…

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