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Lifelong motorcyclist and freelance journalist Jim Reynolds has been appointed motorcycle consultant for Shropshire, Wales and Gloucestershire by Bonhams auctioneers. Jim’s writing made the columns of countless publications including Motor Cycle News, Classic Bike, The Classic MotorCycle, Bike and Vintage Bike (USA), and he launched Classic Bike Guide with Frank Westworth in 1990. Jim has…

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Looking around the paddock at Donington Park race circuit on the first weekend in May one couldn’t help wondering whether the organisers had read last month’s ‘Pete’s Prattle’, writes Ian Kerr. As the Endurance Legends motorcycle racing series, featuring a four-hour classic endurance race complete with a number of star guests, made its Donington debut,…

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Barry Sheene’s two world championship-winning Suzuki RG500s will be among the star attractions at the Cumbria Steam Gathering at Cark Airfield, Flookburgh, near Grange-over-Sands, Cumbria LA11 7LS, from 9am until 5pm each day over the weekend of July 29/30. The four-cylinder two-strokes, on which Barry won the two titles in 1976 and 1977, had been…

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After the winning ticket in the National Motorcycle Museum’s Winter Raffle was drawn by former World Superbike champion Troy Bayliss live on stage at the International Classic MotorCycle Show at Stafford on Sunday, April 23, Roger Ward from Worksop became the astonished owner of a brand new 1200cc Triumph Thruxton R fitted with a ‘track…

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Bike entries in the Brighton and Hove Motor Club’s Brighton Speed Trials along Madeira Drive on Saturday, September 2 are being organised by the Vintage Motor Cycle Club’s Sprint Section. Details can be found on the section’s website, www.vmccsprint.co.uk/vintage_classic_modern_motorcycle_sprint_racing/Welcome.html or the vmccsprint Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/vmccsprint/ RIGHT: During the Brighton Speed Trials on Saturday, September 2,…

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Ian Kerr reports from a historic hill climb in Worcestershire that’s been going great guns since it was revived 17 years ago. Since the beginning of this century, the place for all classic bike enthusiasts to be on Easter Monday has been the Red Marley Hill Climb in Worcestershire. Here can be seen an eclectic…

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Considering that every machine taking part in the Sunbeam Motor Cycle Club’s annual Pioneer Run from Epsom to Brighton on Sunday, March 19, was well over 100 years old, there was an amazingly low attrition rate along the way. This year’s 78th Pioneer Run from Tattenham Corner to Brighton, organised by The Sunbeam Motor Cycle…

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A ‘barn find’ 1949 998cc Vincent-HRD White Shadow Series-C project beat the pre-sale estimate by more than £100,000 when it went under the hammer for £163,900 (including premium) at the Bonhams’ Spring Stafford Sale on Sunday, April 23. The term ‘White Shadow’ applies to the few Black Shadow-spec machines that left the Stevenage factory without…

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Starting and finishing at the picturesque Stoke Bruerne Canal Museum, this year’s Sunbeam Motor Cycle Club’s Rose of the Shires Run will take place on Sunday, June 11. The 50-mile event celebrates the amazing efforts of Mr Albert E Catt who, over 105 years ago in 1911, took his 3½hp Triumph for an endurance ride…

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After receiving an induction and off-road training, eight members of the National Motorcycle Museum’s Friends scheme experienced the delights of riding some of the most exotic machines from the museum’s collection, including a Brough Superior SS100 and a Norton Rotary F1, around the picturesque Warwickshire countryside on Saturday, March 25. They were escorted by ex-police…

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