Colin Seeley (right) accepts cheque from NOC’s Barry Owen They can of course do with it what they will, but when Martin Maynard and Peter White received their cheques, they both chose to donate them
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Made in Metal makeover
Individual touch for your Duke The business began when Rugeley, Staffs, based interior designer John Simmonds doodled a few sketches around how he’d like his 900SS to look. He set about stripping down his standard
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Bill Van de Becke built special The car was then passed to Carl Skinner, of Skinner’s Union (SU) fame. He built the lightweight alloy body and replaced the Powerplus blower with a Zoller unit before
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This incredible figure is only part of the story as over and above this are the star riders who will be parading their genuine works machines within the Past Masters feature on Sunday. The past
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Unusual use of BSA Bantam engine… BSA side valve industrial engines were, at one time, a fairly regular sight, powering rotovators, cement mixers, conveyors, lawn mowers etc, indeed I even had a 420cc side valver
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Rare Crocker V-twin Just 125 or so Crocker V-twins, designed to top 100mph and defeat the Harley-Davidsons and Indians of the day, were manufactured between 1936 and 1941, since when they’ve become the Holy Grail
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1954 350cc Cabton Knightly Never heard of it? Well, you can be forgiven because this is a long defunct Japanese company which took Ariel as its design basis. Surely one of the rarest bikes you’ll
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World’s fastest Vincent at Festival of 1000 Bikes The team will be bringing the 1300cc two valver (100 x 82.55mm) which shoves out some 145bhp at 7000rpm, and its new four valve 100 x 100mm
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Classic Bike Guide’s on sale Old rivalries revived in the latest issue of Classic Bike Guide, as Nigel Clark compares three different approaches to performance biking in 1969. This was a year when it was
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OptiMate 3+ reintroduced OptiMate has expanded its range of smart battery chargers with the reintroduction of the cost effective OptiMate 3+ to complement the range-topping OptiMate 4 Dual Program. The OptiMate 3+ is designed to
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