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The countdown has begun to the biggest classic off-road event of the year… and it’s all eyes on the Telford International Centre, which will once again host the two-day Classic Dirt Bike Show, sponsored by Hagon Shocks. The event takes place across the weekend of February 18-19, with one of the star guests having been confirmed…

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About to enter into its sixth running, the Carole Nash Winter Classic event – supported by Classic Bike Guide magazine – has become one of the favourite dates on the show calendar. Stunning bikes, several traders and star racers will all come under one roof on the first full weekend of 2017, with the Carole…

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A BIKE-MAD pair of TV engineering detectives are on the hunt for forgotten and hidden treasures tucked away in the sheds of Britain. Travel Channel presenters Henry Cole and Sam Lovegrove are about to film their next series which sees them rifling through the lock-ups and sheds of the UK. In previous series they’ve unearthed…

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October is a busy month on the shows scene for CDB, enjoy our overview of the Classic Motorcycle Mechanics Show. 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 those of us who rode the…

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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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  Words: Tim Britton Pics: Fiona Watson 10/11 September, 2016 The weather is a major concern for any event organiser and the track record for the UK recently hasn’t been that good and as CDB pitched the gazebo and set up the stall for the Hawkstone Park Festival of Legends, the conditions were looking distinctly…

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Words: Vets MXdN and Pics: Nick Haskell A victorious Team Belgium celebrated a sensational double victory at this year’s Vets MXdN at Farleigh Castle in Wiltshire on September 3-4, as they claimed top honours in both Twinshock and EVO MXdN team events. An elated Jan Geboers, clutching the prestigious Georges Jobe Trophy, made the most…

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The CDB/Rockoil backed Northern British Bike Championship has a new sponsor. Rockshocks have joined the list of businesses prepared to put their names to our traditional trials series. It helps of course that Gary Fleckney at Rockshocks is a Pre-65 trials competitor and many riders use Rockshocks on their bikes. The presentation of awards for…

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Yes, our show is almost here and I know it seems a mere blink of the eye since February when the Hagon-sponsored extravaganza kicked off our season, but it will soon be time to again head for the International Centre in Telford for the Classic Dirt Bike Show for the best in off-road bikes and…

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