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Motorcycle box van trailer from Latham Trailers Transporting your motorcycles in safety and security is simple and straightforward with Latham Trailers’ range of box van trailers. The model tested by Classic Dirt Bike measures 7ft long by 4ft wide and 5ft high on the inside – more than enough room for two comp bikes. It…

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So much to see and chat about at the International show Following the outstanding success of the 2011 International Dirt Bike Show, where over 22,000 off-road enthusiasts crossed the Stoneleigh Park threshold, plans are well under way to entice even more fans to visit the largest off-road show in Europe this November. A new aspect…

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If Ago can give it a go… the Dales Classic Motorcycle Club is running sidecar Dales Classic is trying to reintroduce the sidecar trials scene into the Derbyshire area for Pre-65s and Twinshocks up to 1985 but not monos at this stage. Club stalwart Henry Gaunt used to passenger for Geoff Gasby in the 1970s…

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All other details remain the same but now the date is September 8, 2012 and the new starting point is Graythwaite in Cumbria. For entry forms go to the club’s website www.enduro-neec.org.uk/calendar.php where a downloadable form is available. Okay, once again, that’s the Cropton Classic Enduro for pre-89 bikes has had to change its venue…

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Motocross history wherever you looked on the stands at Imola Yes, no matter how old a racer is they’re still a racer and the whole point of bikes is to ride them. The racers in question included the cream of Britain’s dirt racers including CDB columnist Jeff Smith, Don and Derek Rickman as well as…

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Issue 23 of Classic Dirt Bike’s on sale In this issue, read part five of our Can-Am 250cc enduro bike rebuild. Now it’s in a complete enough state for us to offer it up as a competition prize. The bike’s rebuild has been overseen by industry specialists and the engine painstakingly assembled by Richard Nixon…

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Davey Morewood in action. Pic by Bill McKeown The course too was slightly different from last year with Callart Pass back in and terrifyingly steep drop down to the Kinlochleven road that is so hard on riders arms and shoulders. With the entry split into two routes – odd numbers starting at section one and…

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Aubrey Attrill Aubrey began riding motorcycles as a teenager and motorcycling became a huge part of his life, both as a competitor and a businessman, establishing IW Motorcycles in the mid-1970s. Trials and scrambling was Aubrey's biggest love and even while he was completing his national service he still made it home every weekend to…

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Fully rebuilt Can-Am 250cc Our Can-Am rebuild’s been overseen and approved with the engine work painstakingly carried out by specialist Richard Nixon from the Can-Am clinic. The  wheels have been finished by Central Wheel, new plastics supplied from MD Racing and a spanking new powder coating finish from Redditch Shot Blasting. Our local car body…

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Get classy with O’Neil’s retro riding gear Well, you could wander along to your local O’Neal stockist and check out its range of retro kit for 2012. In the range are helmets, pants – ‘trousers’ to us older chaps or we will allow ‘race jeans’ – shirts and gloves, in two colour options in 1983…

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