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The now very popular Sand & Motorcycles show in Pages Park, Leighton Buzzard, will this year be held on Sunday, September 29. Attendance over the last two years has almost reached 1000 motorcycles, so this year the organisers are aiming to crack the 1000 bikes mark! It’s also the 10th show this year and the…

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Harrogate Crematorium was packed to capacity as the motorcycling world paid tribute to Peter ‘Top Gear’ Gaunt on Thursday, March 7, writes Tim Britton. The 82-year-old fought a brave battle against cancer but died on February 20. Known throughout the motorcycling world as a talented engineer, and one not bound by convention, Peter’s innovative way…

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Focusing purely on the air-cooled twin, triples and fours that Kawasaki produced in the late Sixties and early Seventies, this book covers quite a short time line in the Japanese company’s history, yet one that proved to be vital for Kawasaki’s longevity. It begins with Kawasaki’s industrial heritage – of ship, train and plane building…

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Bonhams biggest motorcycle auction to date April 27-28.

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The increasingly popular Classic Motorcycle Day at the National Tramway Museum, Crich, near Matlock in Derbyshire, will return this season on Sunday, July 7. The National Tramway Museum, set in the heart of Derbyshire, is a charitable organisation with a large number of volunteers, whose motivation is to preserve the history of the tram. The…

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While you might infer from the headline that it relates to some kind of speed record, it doesn’t. The barrier that has been pushed by this particular Brough is a financial one, set at the recent H&H auction at the National Motorcycle Museum – for this bike fetched an astounding sum of £425,000 at the…

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Thanks to a short delay due to inclement climatic conditions, Dave Manning heads south, and west, to Shepton Mallet. With 2019 being the show’s 39th year, the Bristol Classic saw a delay of three weeks thanks to serious snowfall on the morning of the original set-up day, preventing not only any kind of movement on…

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With the interest in classic mud-pluggers showing no sign of slowing down, Dave Manning takes a trip to Shropshire’s haven for roundabouts, Telford, for a look at knobbly-tyred classics. While the focus of the Hagon Classic Dirt Bike Show is, rather understandably, on mud-pluggers and trials bikes, the International Centre on Telford’s inner ring road…

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Following on from last issue’s potted history of Watsonian Squire sidecars, Mick Payne describes the current range of the Cotswolds’ greatest manufacturer of motorcycle outfits. “I bought Peter’s share of the business in 2006 and Mike’s last year,” explained Ben Mathews, a man with the sidecar industry at heart. The Peter and Mike in question…

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