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  • The Carole Nash MCN London motorcycle show returns to Excel!

    The Carole Nash MCN London motorcycle show returns to Excel!

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    London’s largest motorcycling event, the Carole Nash MCN London Motorcycle Show, roars back into the capital February 14-16 to celebrate all things two wheeled.

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  • Racing bikes return at the Palace

    Racing bikes return at the Palace

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    Sevenoaks and District Motor Club have announced that they will again stage their popular Crystal Palace Car Sprint, bike and car show on May 24 and 25, but unlike 2019’s return to the venue, this year will also feature classic and historic motorcycles performing high speed demonstration runs to recreate the period when bikes raced…

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  • Flares in fashion for a classic Bristol Show!

    Flares in fashion for a classic Bristol Show!

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    Thanks to the fact that the Carole Nash Bristol Classic Motorcycle Show is celebrating its 40th birthday in 2020, the focus for the show is going to be a light-hearted look back at the Seventies and Eighties. The organisers will be throwing a ’70s/’80s-themed birthday bash and dressing up is positively encouraged, with a cash…

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  • Suzuki’s recreational vehicle

    Suzuki’s recreational vehicle

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    I really liked Steve Cooper’s article on the TC range. As a bit of a side order I have owned RV 125cc sand bikes since 1974. They came in three sizes – 50cc, 90cc and 125cc – and I think the first came into the UK in 1973. My wife Kay took her test on…

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  • Muc-off Star Letter: Cleaning up at the Scott

    Muc-off Star Letter: Cleaning up at the Scott

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    At the celebratory dinner for the 105th anniversary of the Scott Trial at the Spa Hotel, Ripon, North Yorkshire, on November 16, Alan Lampkin was a superb Master of Ceremonies, while Nick Jefferies gave a superb speech with a response by John Moffat. Maurice Newsham gave me a lift to this event, and we got…

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  • From the archive: What happened to this much-travelled AJS?

    From the archive: What happened to this much-travelled AJS?

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    Mark Gooding tells the story of his late father-in-law’s 1952 350cc AJS, OMA 859, now thought to be fitted with a 500cc engine, and wonders if any Old Bike Mart reader can help him trace its whereabouts. Sadly my father-in-law Graham died last year. I knew him for 30 years, and in that time he…

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  • Banbury Run 2020

    Banbury Run 2020

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    Early news for this year’s Banbury Run, taking place on Sunday, May 31, is that entry forms are now available, as they went ‘live’ on January 2. Known globally as being the largest gathering of pre-1931 motorcycles and three-wheelers, the Banbury Run begins and ends at the British Motor Museum in Gaydon, Warwickshire, conveniently close…

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  • VMCC training days

    VMCC training days

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    As in previous years, the VMCC will be running its rider training days, designed to give folk the chance to experience the joy of riding bikes built before the Second World War. Most of the bikes for the training days are from the Thirties, although occasionally there is something a little earlier, or later, and…

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  • Telford gets classically dirty

    Telford gets classically dirty

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    Bringing sunshine and life to the dreariest part of the year is the Classic Dirt Bike Show, sponsored by Hagon Shocks, at the Telford International Centre on the weekend of February 15-16, 2020. Aside from the expansive off-road-focussed autojumble outside, the show also features an incredible array of off-road machinery indoors, from highly-spec’d trials bantams…

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  • Ipswich Contis?

    Ipswich Contis?

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    I am writing regarding the photo on the front page of issue 412 of Old Bike Mart. Is it possible that the two lads are picking up their bikes from Boltons Motorcycle of Barrack Corner, Ipswich? I can see that the last two letters of the registration are PV, which I believe to be either…

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