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Celebrate the Mods and Rockers  The Footman James Great Western Autojumble will celebrate the Mods and Rockers years on February 14-15, filling the halls with live music, alongside hundreds of traders, clubs and a vast array of stunning and rare vehicles on display. Event organiser Harry Leyland said: “The owners clubs are sure to embrace…

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Roy Purvis eases his late-model Ossa around the trees on his way to a third in class The course was 10 sections, which had to be ridden four times. Most of the sections involved slippery turns and climbs around trees, typical of South-East Centre mud-plugs. After an early frost thawed, it added a lubricating element…

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New RealClassic\’s out! •  BSA B40 Overlooked and under-appreciated, there were plenty of reasons why the B40 wasn’t a raging success when new. However, it’s finding a whole new following as a lightweight, peppy classic, as Dave and Sue Blanchard discovered  •  Douglas Dragonfly Some bikes are so right that you keep coming back to…

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Norman B4 Sports Our ‘Club Call’ feature has generated quite a lot of correspondence, and Gary Pilcher of the Norman Motorcycle and Cycles Club has informed us of a surprise find of a West Sussex-registered Norman B4 Sports – in a bad way, true, but the basis for a restoration nevertheless. It reminded me of…

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• Editor\’s intro Frank Westworth sets the scene • Archive retrieval A wet and wintry theme • Laverda rally The 2014 Australian National Laverda Rally • News Plugs, leads and short product stuff • Show preview Come to Bristol; great time assured • Subs page You know it makes sense • Triumpht 3TA A black…

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Their fully-equipped, British-built hearses travel the length and breadth of the mainland and, as you can see here, provide a rapid response to the UK’s distant highlands and islands. Says proprietor Paul: ‘The ferry operators are always good with us. As we have such a compact vehicle, they always find a way to fit it…

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In the event of both these assumptions being true, you need to nip over to Wemoto to spend £40 on a set of Vicma heated handlebar grips. These rubber grips are easy to install – no glue required – and are manufactured to resist cracking and deformation from repeated heating and cooling cycles. They steadily…

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Feb\’s TCM is on sale! •  Editor\’s intro •  Archive photograph •  News   •  Diary    •  Subscribe and save    •  Letters   •  Moto Légende •  Lansdowne round-up •  BSA Firebird Scrambler superprofile •  Matchless Model X •  Mondial Bialbero •  Colombres Rally •  New Hudson Model 81 •  Tribsa scrambler •  Straight from the plate…

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1915 Despite the arctic conditions, 24 starters set off from The Clifton Hotel, Bristol for Land’s End via Exeter, Bodmin and Penzance for the Bristol MCC’s 24 hour return run to Land’s End. Included among the 12 finishers who completed the 407 mile round trip were the works Douglas solos of Ted Kickham and FG…

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1961 Velocette Venom with an estimate of £5,000-8,000 Dorset-based auctioneers Charterhouse is set to hold an exciting auction full of intriguing machines at the Carole Nash Bristol Classic Motor Cycle Show…   The show, which will take place on the weekend of February 7-8, 2015 at the Royal Bath and West showground in Shepton Mallet,…

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