New & Features

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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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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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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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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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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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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The impact made on the Sixties MX scene by Don and Derek Rickman with their Metisse machines is well known and the variations of marks are plenty. There’s models with Triumph engines – unit and pre-unit – Matchless motors, Bultaco engines, Montesa power units and so forth. Though predominately MX, the company did dabble in…

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If the answer is yes, then maybe you ought to be in the club… Bultaco Club UK to be precise. Formed by Damon Wood (his Matador was best in show at Telford and is in this issue to further the Bultaco cause) and launched just before Christmas 2018, the idea behind the club is to…

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Since event organiser Mortons Media Group Ltd announced the change of date and venue for the International Dirt Bike Show, trade continues to pour in, ensuring showgoers will have a jam-packed two days at Stafford County Showground on September 28/29. Latest to sign up is kit, clothing, parts and accessories giant Off Road World. The…

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Moon Eyes tells the remarkable story of this down-to-earth racing legend in his own words.

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