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A firm fixture on the vintage motorcycle enthusiasts’ calendar is the International West Kent Run weekend, and the 33rd such event took place at The Friars, Aylesford, on August 5-6, writes Tony Page. With a limited entry of 380, it’s actually a Thursday to Monday event, with social runs being organised each day except Sunday,…

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Ninety-five pre-war motorcycles took part in the Sunbeam Motor Cycle Club’s 55th Graham Walker Memorial Run which started from the Beaulieu Motor Museum in Hampshire on Sunday, August 13, writes Tony Page. Promoted as ‘an informal gathering of motorcyclists in memory of the late Graham Walker, founder member and one-time president of the Sunbeam MCC’,…

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Now in its ninth year, the Brackley Festival of Motorcycling has become one of the biggest motorcycle events in the UK, and is now spread out over 50 acres of the Northamptonshire town. Still run on a not-for-profit basis, the festival continues to put money into the local air ambulance (£100,000 to date) providing the…

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The Taverners section of the Vintage Motor Cycle Club managed another spectacular Founder’s Day event at Stanford Hall on July 23 – and this year’s theme, American motorcycles, resulted in some super examples of the Indian marque from the earliest days of the company right up to today’s modern motorcycles that are even giving Harley…

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Starting from the Haynes International Motor Museum at Sparkford, the inaugural Veteran Only Run, a new venture for the Somerset Section of the Vintage Motor Cycle Club, took place in glorious weather on Sunday, August 13. Although a modest eight entrants arrived for this specialist event over a flattish 46-mile route, broken by a coffee…

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Earlier this year, a letter to OBM from Brian Laitt was read by David Dearle, who hadn’t seen his old friend since the early 1960s. After we arranged for them to get in touch with each other, David made the trip from Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, to Brian’s home in Somerset last month, and they were reunited…

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