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  • Jim Reynolds joins Bonhams team

    Jim Reynolds joins Bonhams team

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Lifelong motorcyclist and freelance journalist Jim Reynolds has been appointed motorcycle consultant for Shropshire, Wales and Gloucestershire by Bonhams auctioneers. Jim’s writing made the columns of countless publications including Motor Cycle News, Classic Bike, The Classic MotorCycle, Bike and Vintage Bike (USA), and he launched Classic Bike Guide with Frank Westworth in 1990. Jim has…

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  • Pete’s Prattle

    Pete’s Prattle

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    Sam Hewitt

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    When a motorcycle manufacturer comes along and acquires the right to use a long-cherished name for its products, exactly what is it buying other than the badge itself? I ask the question in response to a letter from Ian Smart, who is clearly miffed by Hinckley’s claim that its latest engines for Moto2 are part…

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  • AUGUST 2017

    AUGUST 2017

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    Sam Hewitt

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    [su_note note_color=”#c0142b” text_color=”#ffffff”]Current issue: August 2017 – Next issue: September 2017 – On sale: September 2[/su_note] NEWS DIARY DATES MADE IN JAPAN A BIT ON THE SIDE INSIDE UMBERSLADE VMCC BANBURY RUN RESULTS READERS’ TALES READERS’ LETTERS UNEARTHED FEEDBACK CLASSIFIED OBM SERVICES GUIDE CLUB CALL  

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  • Classic racing and so much more at Donington’s brilliant weekend

    Classic racing and so much more at Donington’s brilliant weekend

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Looking around the paddock at Donington Park race circuit on the first weekend in May one couldn’t help wondering whether the organisers had read last month’s ‘Pete’s Prattle’, writes Ian Kerr. As the Endurance Legends motorcycle racing series, featuring a four-hour classic endurance race complete with a number of star guests, made its Donington debut,…

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  • Barry Sheene’s world championship-winning Suzuki RG500s at Cumbria Steam Gathering

    Barry Sheene’s world championship-winning Suzuki RG500s at Cumbria Steam Gathering

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Barry Sheene’s two world championship-winning Suzuki RG500s will be among the star attractions at the Cumbria Steam Gathering at Cark Airfield, Flookburgh, near Grange-over-Sands, Cumbria LA11 7LS, from 9am until 5pm each day over the weekend of July 29/30. The four-cylinder two-strokes, on which Barry won the two titles in 1976 and 1977, had been…

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  • NMM Winter Raffle winners – and a ‘Goldie’ to dream about!

    NMM Winter Raffle winners – and a ‘Goldie’ to dream about!

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    Sam Hewitt

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    After the winning ticket in the National Motorcycle Museum’s Winter Raffle was drawn by former World Superbike champion Troy Bayliss live on stage at the International Classic MotorCycle Show at Stafford on Sunday, April 23, Roger Ward from Worksop became the astonished owner of a brand new 1200cc Triumph Thruxton R fitted with a ‘track…

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  • Straight-line thrills in store at Brighton

    Straight-line thrills in store at Brighton

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Bike entries in the Brighton and Hove Motor Club’s Brighton Speed Trials along Madeira Drive on Saturday, September 2 are being organised by the Vintage Motor Cycle Club’s Sprint Section. Details can be found on the section’s website, www.vmccsprint.co.uk/vintage_classic_modern_motorcycle_sprint_racing/Welcome.html or the vmccsprint Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/vmccsprint/ RIGHT: During the Brighton Speed Trials on Saturday, September 2,…

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  • Unidentical twins

    Unidentical twins

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Although different in appearance, the 650cc BSA A10 Gold Flash and Ariel Huntmaster FH parallel twins offered identical performance as their engines were the same unit produced at BSA’s Small Heath factory in Birmingham, making them equally proficient at fast two-up touring or lusty sidecar lugging. Pete Kelly explores the Mortons Archive to compare the…

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  • Pete’s Prattle

    Pete’s Prattle

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Sometimes a letter or email arrives that’s truly humbling, such as the one I recently received from Richard Illingworth, the son of retired and well-respected journalist David (Bradford Telegraph and Argus, Westminster Press and Yorkshire Post) who I remember well. David took him to all kinds of motorsport events in the late 1960s, including those…

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  • JUNE 2017

    JUNE 2017

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    Sam Hewitt

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    [su_note note_color=”#c0142b” text_color=”#ffffff”]Current issue: June 2017 – Next issue: July 2017 – On sale: July 1[/su_note] NEWS PENDINE LAND SPEED WEEKEND READERS’ LETTERS FROM OUR ARCHIVE DIARY DATES MADE IN JAPAN A BIT ON THE SIDE UNEARTHED FEEDBACK CLUB CALL CLASSIFIED SERVICES            

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