Martin Gegg reports from the Vintage Motor Cycle Club’s 70th anniversary Banbury Run. With an entry of 468, the Vintage Motor Cycle Club’s 70th Banbury Run, which started from the British Motor Museum on Sunday,
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French fancies – and a gorgeous Belgian Lady!
Ian Kerr MBE reports on another wonderful Tour du Calvados for pre-1965 classic motorcycles in Normandy, where reminders of the D-Day landings are all around, and in which great bikes, great company and great riding
Read moreIf this jam-packed motorcycle museum doesn’t make you smile, see a doctor!
Nigel Stennett-Cox visits a motorcycle museum whose exhibits are crammed into old railway buildings in North Norfolk. If you appreciate the quirky and different, you’ll love a visit to the Norfolk Motorcycle Museum, for I
Read moreFuel for thought…
Many of us have known that there are various problems that can occur when running a classic vehicle on modern fuel. Dave Manning looks for the facts behind the rumours. When crude oil was first
Read moreA tale of two Golden Arrows
Colin Rider tells the story of two identical Ariel Golden Arrows that were bought simultaneously by brothers Derek and Randal Jessop after trading in the BSA Shooting Star that they had shared You scratch my
Read moreHonda spreads its ‘wings’
Steve Cooper looks into the origins and development of the bike that spawned a new genre It’s genuinely debatable as to whether any other motorcycle has polarised riders quite as much as Honda’s Goldwing. Perceived
Read more‘Arrow’ hybrid identified
In response to Malcolm Ranieri’s photos of the four-cylinder two-stroke hybrid in Readers’ Letters (May), I’m pretty sure it’s the same bike that called in a couple of years ago at Fosse Garage, near Harbury,
Read moreTURN RIGHT AT THE MANX ARMS! Those old-time glass-plate TTs – on Clypse and Mountain circuits alike
The Mortons Archive contains a precious collection of glass-plate photographic images from the Isle of Man TT races going back to the 1920s, and this June issue seemed the most appropriate in which to show
Read more‘Baby boomers’ and motorbikes
Peter Morley brings a heartwarming story about his late dad’s determination to return to a decent civilian life after the war, and the motorcycles that helped him to do it. Motorbikes first came into my
Read moreVelocette Mk1 OHC
Jim Plant waxes lyrical about his favourite Velo and says everybody should have one. Was it all downhill after 1931? If you are a dedicated Velo man, or woman, you probably don’t realise that your
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