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  • Issue 416 on sale now!

    Issue 416 on sale now!

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    Welcome to Old Bike Mart, the subscription-only newspaper with the UK’s largest selection of classic motorcycle classified ads.

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  • New name, new fresh look… even more bikes

    New name, new fresh look… even more bikes

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    Motorbikes are awesome. And so are the people who ride them. That’s why MoreBikes is getting a major upgrade with more pages and even more content.

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  • Save 20% on tickets and be the first through the gate with the BRAND NEW SEASON TICKET

    Save 20% on tickets and be the first through the gate with the BRAND NEW SEASON TICKET

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    Throughout the year, thousands of people flock to the Kempton and Newark autojumbles; and now bargain-hunting jumblers can save money on entry and gain early access with the new Season Ticket.

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  • Roadkill Café MZ Camping Weekend

    Roadkill Café MZ Camping Weekend

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    Wainfleet, Lincolnshire, October 25-27, 2019. The self-inflicted ordeal of leaving the comfort of one’s home and family to get astride a motorcycle and head for distant climes, this with the mount already having seen some 30 years of use and abuse, seems to retain a surprising following, as Nigel Stennett-Cox knows only too well. That’s…

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  • Fame-hungry sheds required!

    Fame-hungry sheds required!

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    Popular Channel 4 restoration show Find It, Fix It, Flog It is looking for sheds across the country filled with vintage vehicles and automotive memorabilia ready for the next series. Following motorbike-obsessive Henry Cole alongside upcycling expert Simon O’Brien, the programme looks for vintage and unusual items gathering dust in people’s sheds, to restore and…

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  • From the Archive: Memories of Mike

    From the Archive: Memories of Mike

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    We asked Racer readers to send us their recollections of the young Mike Hailwood. Sydney Webster and Jock Leyden sent us theirs…

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  • From the Archive: Memories of Mike

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    Original article from Classic Racer magazine, issue 60, Summer 1996 We asked Racer readers to send us their recollections of the young Mike Hailwood. Sydney Webster and Jock Leyden sent us theirs. My father was well known in racing circles from 1946 until his death in 1963, and through him, I have many memories of…

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  • Percy Tait RIP

    Percy Tait RIP

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    Known to many as a successful racer of Triumph motorcycles in the late Sixties and early Seventies, Percy Tait was much more than that. Born on a farm close to Meriden and the Triumph factory, he was a farming boy through and through, yet after time in the forces, riding with the Army’s Royal Signals…

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  • And Cadwell still rolls on!

    And Cadwell still rolls on!

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    I have been most interested in the photos that you have been printing over the last few issues of Cadwell Park riders of the early days. Although I can’t with any certainty put names to pictures, they certainly depict that great period when the very ordinary chap, with a bit of ingenuity, could put together…

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  • Vic Eastwood RIP

    Vic Eastwood RIP

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    As one of the greats of British scrambling/motocross during the Sixties, Vic Eastwood was part of the Team GB winning team at the 1965, ’66 and ’67 Motocross Des Nations, while 1965 saw Vic claim his highest finish in the World 500cc Motocross Championship, with fourth place on the works BSA, and in 1968 Vic claimed…

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