Based at Aylesford’s 12th century Priory and organised by the West Kent section of the Vintage Motor Cycle Club on August 6/7, the 32nd International West Kent Run Weekend attracted riders from the UK, France,
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When the idea of a Brackley motorcycle meeting in the centre of the Northamptonshire town was first mooted in 2008, little did the organisers know that it would turn into one of the UK’s biggest
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Plans are shaping up for the third National Motorcycle Museum Live free open day on Saturday, November 5. The event will include two ‘Stars on Stage’ presentations with racing legends Carl Fogarty and Jamie Whitham
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Just too late to include in our last issue, but oozing with road racing nostalgia, the Mallory Bike Bonanza over the weekend of July 30/31 also celebrated 60 years of the famous Leicestershire circuit, and
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After arriving in Belfast towards the end of their charity fundraising tour of Northern Ireland, the National Autocycle & Cyclemotor Club’s Wirral Wobblers got a nasty surprise in the shape of 17 parking tickets placed
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The letter in OBM (June) about bike shop tours of Liverpool rekindled memories of 1958-59 and my first bikes as a 16-year-old apprentice mechanic on £3 per week. All the big car dealers, Watson’s (Morris/Jaguar),
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Nigel Darken tells the story of the ‘Tour de Lard’ – a madcap idea involving two motorcycle combinations and three very secondhand Reliant three-wheelers that raised no less than £27,000 for charity. Reading an article
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Well-built and innovative, the West Midlands-manufactured DMW motorcycles were among the most sought-after lightweights of their day, as these Mortons Archive photos show. Despite DMW’s relatively brief period in serious motorcycle production, the firm that
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If you would like a photo print of this image have a look on www.mortonsarchive.com
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