The Motorcycle Action Group has presented Mortons Media Group’s Motorcycle Sport & Leisure magazine with its Media Award for informed, accurate, balanced and ethical reporting of issues relating to motorcycling and motorcyclists. MAG’s vice-chairman Andy
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Vintage and classic bike show adds to Battle of Hastings Week celebrations
It was on a bright, clear and sunny October 14, 1066 that Duke William of Normandy set sail across the English Channel to beat King Harold and his Saxon soldiers in the Battle of Hastings,
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A single glance through Old Bike Mart reveals just how many great events the various sections of the Vintage Motor Cycle Club bring to us each and every month of the year. In this issue
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NEWS MADE IN JAPAN READERS’ LETTERS FROM OUR ARCHIVE READERS’ TALES AT YOUR SERVICE UNEARTHED DIARY DATES FEEDBACK DEALER FEATURE A BIT ON THE SIDE CLASSIFIED SERVICES GUIDE CLUB CALL December 2017 edition of OBM
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Ninety years ago – and what a very different world it was! A smart young lady helps herself to petrol for an immaculate side-valve motorcycle from a shilling-in-the-slot petrol pump outside a garage in Cheltenham
Read moreOutfits to the fore in Beamish Trophy Trial
Local sidecar crew Ian Reavley and Colin Goode from Blyth, Northumberland, didn’t even have to leave the county to compete in the 45th Beamish Trophy Trial on September 17 – and on their 1935 Norton
Read moreEnd of a glorious era as six White Helmets Triumphs come under Charterhouse gavel
Sherborne auctioneers Charterhouse are selling six of the world famous Royal Signals Motorcycle Display Team Triumph motorcycles at their Sherborne salerooms on Thursday, November 16. More commonly known as the White Helmets, the display team
Read moreAaron Slight proves a big hit at 24th Carole Nash Classic Motorcycle Mechanics Show
Even the weather played ball for the 24th Carole Nash Classic Motorcycle Mechanics Show at the Staffordshire County Showground on October 14-15, when former Kiwi World Superbike star Aaron Slight told entertaining stories on stage
Read moreA Trotter-free zone!
This month, for once, Mick Payne look at three-wheelers of a different kind, and points out that the idea goes back a very long time! While looking at the Honda outfit we featured in this
Read moreDamp coils and blazing hair – a Honda CB400 trip to remember!
Lindsay Norris, now living in New Zealand, set off on a Honda CB400F with a mate to the Italianate village of Portmeirion, North Wales, where the TV series The Prisoner was filmed. But he had
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