New & Features

Last year some 5,000 people came to the World Round, held over two days at the Cumbrian venue for the fourth consecutive year. Toni Bou won the round beating Raga then spent time with the Apico team, signing autographs and chatting to the fans. This year Putoline has joined forces with Apico and become title…

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That’s Rob in the middle, with Alan Whitton on the left and Paul Ridgard on the right. The trio are collaborating on producing Bantam frames and rolling chassis like the one they’re standing behind. Rob’s been involved in frame making for some time, since the 1960s actually when he did grasstrack chassis under the Sigma…

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New Classic Dirtbike’s out! UK readers, please see note below… IMPORTANT MESSAGE! From our next issue Classic Dirtbike will be available in the UK by subscription only! REGULARS • Editor's intro Tim Britton sets the scene • In Balance The editor’s view of the scene as he sees it… usually from underneath a bike in…

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Yamaha TY So, that means there’ll be no popping to WHS or your corner shop on the third Thursday of every February, May, August and October; instead, to get your copy, you’ll need to subscribe, sit back and watch it drop through the letterbox. While if you’re wise enough to be a current subscriber… you…

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CDB changes are planned… Having just released its 30th issue, the move is being made amid increasing growth in subscriber numbers with the team behind the publication saying it will allow them to further concentrate efforts on making a magazine that best speaks to the off-road community. Dan Savage, Classic Dirtbike publisher, said: “The continued…

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Sammy Miller trials legend will be one of the star guests at the Robbie Allan off-road celebration There will be all sorts of events going on throughout the weekend, but principally there is a trial, scramble and an enduro for riders over the age of 50. Tinto Park, the brainchild of Robbie Allan, is 50…

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It will still be on Easter Monday, it will still have the best of action as riders attempt to beat each other, and the clock, to the top of the Worcestershire hill, but there are a few changes to a couple of the classes. Out is the Pre-1950 rigid class, in is a 16 rider…

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New CDB’s out! REGULARS • Tim Britton sets the scene Editor talks about dirty things… • In balance Regression to a younger time is the theme this issue. Remember your youth? Of course you do, yesterday is hazy though • News This is where it’s at folks, all the scoops, the latest news and some…

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And what a line-up of bikes and riders Wrighty has assembled for us to see. Every aspect of competition motorcycling will be represented in the halls at the Telford Exhibition Centre at Telford in Shropshire from trials to scrambles, enduro to road racing plus speedway, sprinting and well… you get the picture. With a line-up…

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Stunts galore at International Dirt Bike Show Check out what 21,000 off-road enthusiasts flocked to the venue to see including: mountain bike, superbike and motocross stunt shows, flattrack racing demos and the UK Superlites championship finale. The programme airs at 7.25pm, Saturday, December 28 on Motors TV UK – Sky 447/Virgin 545.

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