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    Galloway Motorcycle Club’s Classic Grand National MX at Drumlanrig Castle in Dumfries has spurred the club on to greater efforts for 2019. With club members from all areas of the sport, their aim is to move this once great club forward and regain the prominence it had 50 years ago. To promote this…

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                    Brace yourselves, as you’re about to read an unashamed spot of trumpet-blowing for Classic Dirt Bike… Who are we kidding? It’s not just one trumpet parping away, it’s a fanfare of brass band proportions. Yes, the 2019 Hagon sponsored Classic Dirt Bike Show on February…

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It’s been a hectic year for the CDB backed scrambles series as riders charged up and down the country to events across the UK. There were six rounds, 12 races and two champions and everybody in the series, not just the winners, performed extremely well. The level of competition was keen, very keen at times.…

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The popularity of twinshock trials bikes is growing at a rate of knots and September 2018 saw the first running of the Leven Valley Two Day Trial in Kinlochleven. With one lap each day, no road work, the trial brought out all manner of twinshocks to do battle in the Highlands. As Bultacos bounced through…

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  The Galloway MCC’s classic event at Drumlanrig Castle has certainly captured the attention of the classic world and after discussions over dates with the castle (they have to fit all sorts of activities in during the season) the date for 2019 has been announced. They’ve also upped the ante a bit too as a…

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It is a fact we all get older and there is no escaping mortality, but it’s still a shock when names well known in the off-road world pass on. Those of us in the trials world were shocked to hear of Swedish former world champion and Montesa star Ulf Karlsson’s passing earlier this year after…

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  The step from newsagent to motorcycle manufacturer isn’t possibly the easiest one to make, but Alan Clewes managed it when he turned up at BSA’s comp shop hoping to buy a few bits to keep his own BSA MXer running for a bit longer. Instead, he was told ‘buy the lot or buy nowt’…

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  Stuart Miller, founder of CI Sport was well known in the off-road scene for his tireless enthusiasm for the dirt bike world. His company grew out of the equally renowned Comerfords dealership at Thames-Ditton in the mid-1980s and under his direction the fledgling concern grew to be a major influence in the motorcycle world.…

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