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Over the past three years, sales of Wemoto’s Festival of Jurby T-shirts have raised more than £48,000 for the Manx Grand Prix Supporters’ Club. Featuring Mike Hailwood on the Sports Motor Cycles Ducati, this year’s design marks the 40th anniversary of his comeback to mainstream motorcycle racing and his Formula 1 TT win on the…

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The 2009 Honda CBR1000RR on which John McGuinness achieved the first 131mph lap of the Isle of Man TT course has been loaned to the Lakeland Motor Museum by the aptly named ‘Morecambe Missile’. John used the bike to win the Superbike TT that year – his 15th title – and then in the Senior…

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Complete the Old Bike Mart reader survey and help us make your favourite newspaper even better – and you might win a top-of-the-range Held helmet or gloves into the bargain! We like to think that OBM offers great value to its readers, with event news, nostalgia, readers’ tales and so much more, but then again…

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For the 11th year, Lytham Hall will host Mark Woodward’s Classic Car & Motorbike Show on Sunday, July 22. The Fylde coast venue is located seven miles from Blackpool, and is easily accessible from the M6/M55. The show will run from 10am until 4pm, and admission prices, including free parking, full access to the park,…

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Münch Mammoth sells for £154,940 at Bonhams spring Stafford sale Several world bidding records were broken at the International Classic MotorCycle Show at Stafford over the weekend of April 21-22 when a 1970 1177cc Clymer MÜnch TTS Mammoth was sold for a staggering £154,940, and a 1973 MV Agusta 750S went for £96,700 – the…

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Dave Manning heads to deepest Staffordshire to find a collection of vintage machinery that is begging to be ridden. While the very fact that you’re reading Old Bike Mart shows that you probably have an interest in motorcycles of a certain age, it doesn’t necessarily follow that each and every reader owns a large and…

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Northern Ireland’s Jonathan Rea MBE was awarded the Royal Automobile Club’s Torrens Trophy on Thursday, March 29 – the day our April issue went to press – at the Pall Mall Clubhouse for being the first rider to win three consecutive World Superbike Championships. For Rea, it was only the latest in a string of…

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