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  • Ten times World Champion to take star role at Stafford

    Ten times World Champion to take star role at Stafford

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    The most successful sidecar racer of all time, Steve Webster, will be Guest of Honour at the Carole Nash Motorcycle Mechanics Show this October.

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  • Five things you didn’t know about Apollo 11’s return

    Five things you didn’t know about Apollo 11’s return

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    Fifty years on, the programme to take the first humans to the moon is arguably our single greatest achievement.

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  • Classic Dirt Bike Show 2019

    Classic Dirt Bike Show 2019

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    Three halls of stupendous dirt bikes and a dinner to boot! Words Tim Britton Pics Tim Britton and Fiona Watson Does anyone doubt that the annual February gathering at Telford International Centre for the Hagon Shocks-backed Classic Dirt Bike Show is the non-riding event of the year for our scene? Even on set-up day there’s…

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  • Enthusiasm undamped

    Enthusiasm undamped

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    It was a wet old weekend for the Carole Nash International Classic MotorCycle Show. Words and pics: Tim Britton It’s England, it’s spring, it could be fine, warmand sunny or it could be as it was at the Carole Nash Classic MotorCycle Show when CDB popped in on Saturday, April 27 – a bit damp.…

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  • Bultaco Nostalgia

    Bultaco Nostalgia

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    Westmorland Motor Club’s Bultaco Nostalgia Trial which supports the Cancer Care charity, will take place on June 15, 2019, where guest of honour – and former Bultaco star – Bernie Schreiber will be once again riding a Bultaco and showing he’s still got it. New for 2019 is the VIP ride. The Westmorland Motor Club…

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  • Ekins’ Triumph jumps to new world record

    Ekins’ Triumph jumps to new world record

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    A 1962 Triumph 649cc TR6SS ridden by Bud Ekins, the American desert and enduro competitor who performed the famous jump as stunt double for Steve McQueen in The Great Escape, was one of the star lots at Bonhams’ Spring Stafford Sale, achieving a world record auction price of £97,750 – over three times its top…

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  • Highland Classic 2019

    Highland Classic 2019

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    It is likely too late to try and get an entry for the Inverness DMCC Highland Classic Two day Trial on the Alvie estate near Aviemore on June 8/9, as the entries fill up very quickly once they are open and the opening date was February 1, 2019. However, there’s an outside chance someone might…

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  • Increase in entries for Leven Valley

    Increase in entries for Leven Valley

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    Latest news from the Leven Valley Two Day Trial is the entries have been upped to 250 from an initial 200. So popular has the event been that the organisers were oversubscribed almost on the day the entries opened. The trial will take place in Kinlochleven on September 28/29, 2019 and will be all off-road.…

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  • Toughsheet Twinshock series

    Toughsheet Twinshock series

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    With two rounds of the Toughsheet National Twinshock MX Championships done and dusted, the series has seen quite an upturn in entries. The series now caters for Twinshocks, Evolution, Super Evos, and Veterans on Modern bikes. Round three is coming up fast, and is being run by the newly formed Nottingham Twinshock Club, at the…

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  • Two down –five to go

    Two down –five to go

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    The Northern British Bike Championship, one of the UK’s best supported classic championships, got underway with its first round ‘The Poachers Bag’ hosted by Poachers Pre-65 Classic Trials Club at the end of March. Set in the picturesque Lincolnshire Wolds and starting from Smith’s Farm, the round consisted of a 22-mile lap of farm tracks,…

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