Classic Bike Guide

The Road – A Motorcycling Anthology

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Sam Hewitt

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23rd July 2019

What’s this? an advert for another bike magazine? Are you mad? I had to share this with you, as it is brilliant, just brilliant. Greg Pullen, Italian classic bike expert wanted to share features that were longer than those in a magazine, but shorter than warranting a book, hence an anthology. Pullen’s previously edited Benzina,…
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British motorcycles 1945-1965, from Aberdale to Wooler

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Sam Hewitt

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22nd July 2019

With 600 pages this is a big beast of a book! It makes it too long to read from cover to cover and is best used as a reference, and good at that it is. To have so many bikes featured from just a 20 year period is quite something, but it includes great artwork…
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Beezumph triples head to Cadwell

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Sam Hewitt

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20th July 2019

CADWELL PARK WILL echo to the howl of 120° triples at this year’s Beezumph rally on July 25/26. Organisers at the Trident and Rocket 3 Owners’ Club are celebrating their 40th birthday and are pulling out all the stops. There will be a Doug Hele Centennial area with the prototype P1 Trident on display. Other…
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Ace has a Triumph up its sleeve

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Sam Hewitt

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19th July 2019

TRIUMPH MOTORCYCLES HAS teamed up with the Ace Café to create a limited-edition model of its Bonneville T120. Only 1400 Bonneville T120 Ace machines will be sold worldwide. The Ace models come with a matt storm grey paint job with a contrasting Ace Café stripe and dedicated Ace Café and Bonneville T120 graphics. Ace Café…
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From pints to pistons – Monty’s Classics settles in at former pub

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Sam Hewitt

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18th July 2019

IT’S PROVING FAR from ‘last orders’ at Monty’s Classics, as the supplier of British spares to the enthusiast is now firmly in place at its new premises, a former pub on the border between Devon and Cornwall. Bar staff at The Cross House in Metherell, near Callington pulled their last pints more than a decade…
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Shark Race-R pro Carbon Helmet

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Sam Hewitt

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17th July 2019

As a relatively new rider I have only tried a few styles, but I have found that the Shark Race-R pro Carbon seems just right for me, as I’m considering how it feels to me, not comparing it to others. I think the helmet looks great, has an air of quality and is a light…
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Wander through 200 acres of classics

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Sam Hewitt

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16th July 2019

MORE than 200 bikes dating back to 1911 will be on display at the Stroud Vintage Transport and Engine Club’s show this summer. The event at South Cerney Airfield in Cirencester, Glouc over the weekend of August 2-4 is now in its 45th year and is one of the biggest steam, vintage transport and countryside…
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‘One-off’ Rocket Gold Star prototype set to go under the hammer

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Sam Hewitt

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14th July 2019

BSA ROCKET GOLD STAR factory prototype ‘985 FOC’ will be sold at the next H&H Classics auction at the National Motorcycle Museum on July 30. This piece of motorcycling history was built at the BSA factory in Birmingham in January 1962 and was used for the development and evaluation of the Rocket Gold Star. Copies…
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Royal Enfield’s Trials tribute

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Sam Hewitt

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12th July 2019

ROYAL ENFIELD HAS launched a new dual-purpose version of its Bullet 500 single in tribute to the company’s success 70 years ago in ISDT competitions between 1948 and 1953. The Bullet Trials 500 uses the same 499cc, single-cylinder, air-cooled, four-stroke engine used on the standard bikes. The Trials produces 27.2bhp at 5100rpm and up to…
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Bike Shed show 2019

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Sam Hewitt

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10th July 2019

Tobacco Dock, London The seventh year running of the best UK custom bike show was bigger and better than ever. And the classic and vintage theme was everywhere. The Bike Shed started as an internet blog, following a modern sportsbike rider, Dutch, through his change to custom bikes and the scene that he found. It…
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