Classic Dirt Bike

  • Bultaco Revival Nostalgia Trial

    Bultaco Revival Nostalgia Trial

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    A casual comment led to a large part of the 1970s and 1980s Bultaco works trials team assembling near Kendal for the Westmorland Club’s special trial, to celebrate not only the marque but to raise funds for Cancer Care. Trials fans from the Seventies won’t need to be reminded that Martin – youngest of the three…

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  • Hawkstone festival of legends

    Hawkstone festival of legends

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    Hawkstone Park and MX go together like bread and butter – if you’ve not been to the Shropshire circuit then you’ve missed out. Luckily, the Hawkstone Legends MX gives you the best reason of all to go to the circuit – some fabulous MX racing. Last year’s inaugural event laid the foundations for bigger and…

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  • WEIGHT A MINUTE…

    WEIGHT A MINUTE…

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    How light is too light and what is needed to create such a light bike? The first question is a difficult thing to quantify, as general thinking in the classic period had it that bikes were becoming too light, yet weighing in at nearly 300lb – 136kg give or take a gram. Once two-strokes hit…

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  • Super Stafford

    Super Stafford

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    The Carole Nash International Classic Motorcycle Show is a fixture on the classic scene… … so much so that to enthusiasts far and wide the Carole Nash-backed classic shows at the Staffordshire County Showground are referred to as ‘Stafford’, secure in the knowledge that fellow enthusiasts will know which show is being referred to. So,…

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  • Old Knobblies Trail Challenge

    Old Knobblies Trail Challenge

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    March 28-30, 2017: Llandovery, Wales Much more sport happens in our world than we could possibly hope to fit in one magazine. We’re expecting big things of the revamped website to be useful as a place where the sport can be placed… hopefully we’ll be under way soon. Right, you’ve been seduced by the enduro…

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  • CDB Classic Championship

    CDB Classic Championship

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    Words and pics Andy Withers at AW Sportsphoto The Classic Dirt Bike sponsored AMCA British Classic Motocross Championship got off to a cracking start at Yatton Keynall near Bath on April 23. The Pre-65 and Pre-74 classes were run as one race which produced close racing throughout, particularly in race one. Kris Winder on his…

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  • CDB Classic Championship

    CDB Classic Championship

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    Words and pics Andy Withers at AW Sportsphoto The Classic Dirt Bike sponsored AMCA British Classic Motocross Championship got off to a cracking start at Yatton Keynall near Bath on April 23. The Pre-65 and Pre-74 classes were run as one race which produced close racing throughout, particularly in race one. Kris Winder on his…

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  • Anatomy of a winner

    Anatomy of a winner

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    Words: John McCrink Pictures: John McCrink and Eric Miles What does it take to win the Pre-65 part of our sponsored scrambles series? John McCrink investigates. When Liston Bell won the Scottish Classic Racing Motorcycle Club’s Pre-65 Over 350cc Scrambles Championship back in 2011, everyone agreed that the lad could really ride a bike. However,…

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  • IN BALANCE

    IN BALANCE

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    A momentous occasion It is the aim of all trials riders to go clean… … and record the perfect score, of course the better the rider then the more chance there is of this happening. As I was busily writing this column or, to be more correct sitting staring at the computer screen and wondering…

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  • Summer 2017 – Issue 43

    Summer 2017 – Issue 43

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    [su_note note_color=”#c0142b” text_color=”#ffffff”]Current issue: Issue 43 – Next issue: Issue 44 – On sale: August 17, 2017[/su_note] In the Summer 2017 issue… 03 In Balance The fluid and volatile world of dirt bikes is food for thought as the editor looks back 56 years as Dougie Lampkin equals Gordon Jackson’s one mark win. 06 News, views…

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