The Royal Automobile Club has awarded its prestigious Segrave Trophy to Dorset motorcycle racer Sam Sunderland for becoming the first Briton to take a Dakar Rally crown by winning the motorcycle category in last year’s
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Thunderfest winners come within a whisker of perfection
With a brilliant sun beating down from a cloudless blue sky it could have been Jerez rather than Derbyshire, but the Tarmac was melting at the Darley Moor circuit for the eighth edition of Thunderfest,
Read moreHappy memories – and thoughts turn to a four-stroke Jawa outfit
Mick Payne looks back fondly to the marathon round-Britain sidecar journey that he and partner Kate made to raise funds for research into Alzheimer’s disease, and wonder how one of the new 350cc overhead-camshaft Jawas,
Read moreMurray’s Motorcycle Museum
Nobody needs an excuse to go to the Isle of Man, especially during the first week in June, but Dave Manning knows that there’s a place away from the Mountain Circuit that is a hidden
Read moreWhy I’ll never forget Ray’s wonderful R60-framed BMW R100RS/GP outfit
Mick Payne reflects on the late Ray Doran’s cleverly modified BMW/Watsonian GP Sport combination. Last month, our editor Pete gave a tantalising glimpse of the sadly deceased Ray Doran’s lovely BMW outfit, and this got
Read moreXL250 – the Honda trailie that came oh, so close…
In the last of his features about Japanese trail bikes, Steve Cooper takes a close look at Honda’s XL250 that was first revealed 46 years ago in 1972. By the end of the 1960s, Honda’s
Read moreSometimes, a café racer was the only answer!
Colin House brings more evocative images of the Sixties as he describes the accident that resulted in him rebuilding his Norton Dominator as a café racer, and some of the cafes, coffee bars and pie
Read moreWhite knuckles, girlfriends and oily wrecks!
Now in his seventies and still riding a Suzuki SV650, Leslie Wye looks back fondly at the magical motorcycling years of the 1960s. During the now-far-away 1960s, motorbikes played a much more important role in
Read moreJourney into space – on a Noddy bike!
Former local police motorcycle patrolman Derek Marrable recalls the night when he was launched into dark space on an LE Velocette Riding along the alleyway that runs between the back gardens of Haws Lane, the
Read more‘Tonning it up’ to Skeggy, 56 years ago
Some years ago, our local paper the Leicester Mercury did an article about holidays and day trips to Skegness in the 1950s and 60s, and invited readers to send in their memories and photos. As
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