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The year of the YAMSCOT CLASSIC: Alvie estate, Aviemore

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Sam Hewitt

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22nd August 2016

Since themeing the Highland Classic two-day trial there has been the Bultaco Edition, the Dave Thorpe Edition, the Bill Wilkinson Edition and this year was the year of the YamScot, held over June 11/12, 2016. Devised by Les Shirlaw of the Aberdeen dealer Shirlaws to promote their Yamaha agency, the YamScot banner saw trials, MX…
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Vets MXDN 2016

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Sam Hewitt

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22nd August 2016

For fans of twinshock and evo racing the place to be is Farleigh Castle in Wiltshire and the time to be there is September 3-4, 2016 when the Vets MXDN kick-starts in to action in what is probably the biggest event of its kind in the UK, possibly Europe and maybe the world! Event co-ordinator…
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Legends at Hawkstone

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Sam Hewitt

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22nd August 2016

Latest news from Cumbria Twinshock is about the new Hawkstone Park Festival of Legends two-day event on Sunday, September 11, 2016. It’s open to everyone still riding their twinshock and evolution bikes but with the added bonus of a get together of British MX legends on Sunday, made up of riders who entertained us from…
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Classic Mechanics 2016

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Sam Hewitt

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22nd August 2016

How many CDB readers haven’t seen, On Any Sunday? Not many I bet, this seminal work on motorcycle sport showed the outside world how we spent our Sundays. Produced by surfer/indie film maker Bruce Brown On Any Sunday did feature superstars – with Malcolm Smith, Mert Lawwill and the late Steve McQueen being central to…
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Not just DOT!

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Sam Hewitt

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22nd August 2016

Just in case you needed any proof that it’s not just DOTs I take pics of, here’s one of Kevin Taylor in action at a Herefordshire Classic Trials Club Event. I was searching for something DOT-related and this turned up. I took it in 2013 and the section that riders over my way may recognise…
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International co-operation

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Sam Hewitt

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22nd August 2016

When Alan Arnott saw Swedish MX superstar Bill Nilsson’s Czechoslovakian ESO motor slipped in a British Metisse chassis, it sparked a desire in him to own one. He tells the tale of the build. Have you ever had an itch you just had to scratch? Well, the ESO is one of mine. It probably started…
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Starman’s rocketship

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Sam Hewitt

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22nd August 2016

Works bikes are built to win; it’s their function in life, an if they look good too that’s a plus point. CDB has a look at a stunning winner – ex-Graham Noyce 1979 500RC Honda. There is little room for sentimentality in the race world, this week’s new development is next week’s old hat as…
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That was the year that Graham Noyce was MX King of the World

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Sam Hewitt

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22nd August 2016

“It’s Noyce and his mechanic against the world!” screamed the headline in MotorCycle of March 24, 1979. How did that year pan out? Read on… The swinging Sixties were over, the Seventies almost through and not only was Jeff Smith’s second world MX championship but a distant memory for off-road fans but so was the…
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A superb re-creation…NSU’s ISDT Supermax

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Sam Hewitt

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22nd August 2016

As the ISDT was the shop window to the motorcycle world, all factories took it seriously, though their approach often differed. We take a look at a faithful reproduction of NSU’s 1956 mount. While Gary Chapman set up the lights for our shoot at the Carol Nash International Classic Motorcycle Show, I had a chance…
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Original and unrestored: Bultaco SHERPA 340

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Sam Hewitt

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22nd August 2016

There is something appealing about a bike being just as it finished its last outing, complete with the dings and scratches the competition world thrives on. Antique dealers might describe this as the patina of age, we call it ‘life.’ How many readers have gone to look at one thing and come away with something…
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