With this issue hitting your doormats on the 6th, you’ve just over a week before the Autumn Stafford Show (more correctly the 25th Carole Nash Classic Motorcycle Mechanics Show, at the county showground just to
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STAFFORD’S AUTUMN BONANZA
Classic motorcycle enthusiasts will be counting down to the annual Stafford show – with something extra-special lined up for this year. The Carole Nash Classic Motorcycle Mechanics Show, held over the weekend of October 13
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As you’ll know from last issue’s editorial, Pete Kelly has slid across to the lofty heights of the editorial high chair of Railway Modeller Magazine, allowing me to perch myself in the still-warm and comfy
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Ian Kerr MBE puts on his climbing boots, and goes on a hill climb pilgrimage. In the last few years, the two-day Kop Hill climb run has established itself as a Mecca for those keen
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There was no shortage of variety at the VMCC’s annual Stanford Hall shindig, this year held in late July, as James Robinson discovered… The Vintage Motor Cycle Club’s Founders’ Day has found a long-standing home
Read moreSprinting – two classic sprinting events in one!
While drag racing may be considered to be a forward-looking sport with ever increasing speeds and decreasing elapsed times, the more traditional form of the sport – sprinting – is sometimes unfairly seen as the
Read moreDelivering the goods early 20th century style
Many of us still regard the sidecar outfits that were once so commonplace as ‘cheap family transport’, and that they certainly were – but Pete Kelly delves into the Mortons Archive to find a remarkable
Read moreChart-topping X Factor star… four decades on
Steve Cooper regales the way that Suzuki grabbed the two stroke crown in 1978 By the latter part of the 1970s it was obvious that Suzuki’s GT250 was showing its age. Despite being the bestselling
Read moreGlobal delivery service – a postie bike that goes the distance
Mick Payne shows us that neither age nor engine capacity should be a hindrance to transcontinental adventuring I’ve always been a fan of small motorcycles, and for several years my daily commute was a 197cc
Read moreMike the Bike – Again
Ted Macauley first met Mike Hailwood at the Isle of Man TT in 1961 when Mike was just 21 years old and was riding in all four solo classes.
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