Classic Bike Guide

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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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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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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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 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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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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WHETHER IT WAS due to the location, the time of year or hard work of the organisers, the second Stone Circle Classic and Custom Ride-in Bike Show was a roaring success. Hosted by the Wiltshire branch of the BSA owners’ club at Avebury, visitors arrived in large numbers from early on despite a chilly start.…

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BMW IS GOING into the bobber business. With many manufacturers going down the bobber route and launching lean, low, cut down motorcycles that ape the American cruisers of the 1950s, the German automotive giant has gone bigger than most with its Motorrad Concept R18. The machine features a newly designed, two-cylinder 1800cc boxer engine. Visually…

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