New & Features

This St Valentine’s weekend, we’re celebrating the Mods and Rockers years at The Royal Bath & West showground, filling the halls with live music, alongside hundreds of traders, clubs and a vast array of stunning and rare vehicles on display… hopefully including yours! Here are just some of the benefits of bringing your car or…

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1961 \’works replica\’ Royal Enfield There will be displays and star guests recalling some of the most memorable moments in off-road and road racing competition. The 40th anniversaries of Martin Lampkin being crowned world trials champion and Vic Allan becoming the only man ever to have won both the British 250 and 500cc British Motocross…

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1915 New vehicle lighting orders for the London Metropolitan Police District. For some time, faster vehicles (including motorcycles) have been required to carry a working red rear light or rear lights as appropriate, but slow vehicles including cycles, hand carts and horse drawn vehicles have been exempt. Now all classes of road vehicles must carry…

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Peter Greenwood\’s 350 Gold Star now has a later, big fin 500 engine Motorcycles had a dedicated parking area just outside the old Clubhouse and formed a mixed line of classics and a few of vintage years. Unfortunately, the weather and other distractions in the area seem to have kept attendance down.  One attendee was…

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New styles from Davida The visors are available in more than 10 different finishes, and all are made from 2mm polycarbonate, preformed in a variety of shapes, including the popular 1970s ‘Bubble’ style. With three adjustable sliding studs, all the new D4Vi9A visors have a universal fit, suitable for use with the Davida Jet, Ninety…

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Attendance was up at Newark Show! The Carole Nash Classic Bike Guide Winter Classic was marked by several exceptional examples with the region’s two-wheel enthusiasts demonstrating their restoration expertise. Andy Baldwin, a Vintage Japanese Motorcycle Club member from Peterborough, saw off strong competition to claim the event’s coveted Best in Show award with his 1969…

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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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