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It’s a team thing this Classic MXdN. Words: Mark Dunseath Pics: Ian Cairns The International Classic Motocross circus visited Ballyblack in Newtownards in September, for the 2016 Classic Motocross des Nations International event, promoted by the Northern Ireland Classic Scrambles Club (www.niclassicscramblesclub.com). The venue and track at landowner Leslie Wright’s farm was classic motocross utopia…

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The lighter the bike, the easier it is to ride – the CDB pre-60 MXer sheds more pounds. Words and pics: Tim Britton There are a number of ways to reduce the weight of a typical British road bike if it is going to be used in off-road sport. The easiest way is to pull…

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Kawasaki’s advertising slogan in the Seventies made much of the light weight and colour of their MX models, we check out an SR400 which epitomised the advert legend. Words and pics: Tim Britton It is a fascinating world in which factory team bikes live, and there are three separate elements to that world. Naturally there’s…

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The ISDT often showcased future developments in our industry and proved they would work too. Naturally the press were there. Words: Tim Britton Pics: Mortons Archive This is a little bit of personal indulgence on my part here… and I suppose I ought to apologise for that…. but it’s probably obvious to regular readers that…

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Though still fielding machines based on production bikes, the UK team for 1966 had some good kit. Words: Tim Britton Pics: Nick Haskell To perform well on the world stage was always the aim of the UK’s motorcycle industry throughout its existence and the International Six Days Trial was tailor made for this purpose. When…

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You probably don’t realise it, but a big four-stroke single is what you need in your life right now and the AMC versionis pretty damned handsome. Surely everyone must know the story of how the upstart lightweight bikes came along in the Sixties and knocked the big bangers off their seemingly unassailable perches? Yes? No?…

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October is a busy month on the shows scene for CDB, enjoy our overview of the Classic Motorcycle Mechanics Show. Words: Tim Britton Pics: Fiona Watson Oh boy, is interest in the Classic Mechanics era taking off or what? Enthusiasm for machinery from the Seventies, Eighties and Nineties has grown at a rapid rate as…

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Although BSA’s DBD models are the ultimate development of the company’s MX machines, the BB version was the start. CDB checks one out. Words and pics: Tim Britton Long before Jeff Smith earned the world championship reward for his and BSA compshop boss Brian Martin’s patient development work on the Gold Star’s successor, another BSA…

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Though a modern event, there is still the odd thing for us classic enthusiasts at the Motul- sponsored International Dirt Bike Show… With all that’s best in the modern dirt bike scene on display at the International Dirt Bike Show at the end of October, enthusiasts of the older, classic dirt bike had to look…

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