Old Bike Mart

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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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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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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With the Guzzi factory opening its doors to the general public for one weekend a year, Dave Manning heads to Mandello del Lario for a look behind the famous red gate. Like much of Italian industry, the Moto Guzzi factory has a shut-down period in late summer, celebrating its return to production by opening its…

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In this well researched and comprehensive book, the reader is taken through the full range of triple models, including the BSA Rocket 3, the Trident and the A75 Hurricane, as well as the technical changes that took place, and the fascinating range of specials and one-offs. There’s also advice on the Triumph dating system (no,…

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On a Saturday evening in mid-October, Wells Classic Motorcycle Club held its 19th Annual General Meeting, presentations and social evening at the Britannia Inn, Wells, Somerset. In itself, that’s nothing unusual for a motorcycle club, but the highlight came when, at the end of the meeting, members were joined by the deputy mayor Phillip Welch…

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Certainly one of the longest book titles in my personal library, and fortunately matched by its size and pagination, the title does explain its contents very well. No doubt your first thought will be to wonder why the book only starts with bikes built from 1937, and the answer is quite simple. That was the…

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