Classic Dirt Bike

  • PREVIEW: Issue 262 of Classic Dirt Bike magazine

    PREVIEW: Issue 262 of Classic Dirt Bike magazine

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    Welcome to Classic Dirt Bike magazine, where we celebrate the best in older off-road motorcycles and showcase those who ride them… both now and back in the day. In Issue 62 of Classic Dirt Bike magazine, you can expect all of this… Vinduro action CDB headed north to try the Vinduro Hare and Hounds… thankfully our…

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  • Save 20% on tickets and be the first through the gate with the BRAND NEW SEASON TICKET

    Save 20% on tickets and be the first through the gate with the BRAND NEW SEASON TICKET

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    Throughout the year, thousands of people flock to the Kempton and Newark autojumbles; and now bargain-hunting jumblers can save money on entry and gain early access with the new Season Ticket.

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  • HL lore

    HL lore

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    With reference to your Curtis story, Yamaha were never intimately involved in the HL project. Hallman and Lundquist initially experimented with a Husqvarna frame and a standard XT engine before having Profab build them frames and Tom White supply them with a White Bros engine performance package. After Bent Aberg had proved the concept worked,…

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  • Stunning off-road machines confirmed for Classic Dirt Bike Show

    Stunning off-road machines confirmed for Classic Dirt Bike Show

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    A stunning line-up of classic off-road machines has been confirmed for the Classic Dirt Bike Show sponsored by Hagon Shocks next month.

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  • International Dirt Bike Show settling in to a new home at Stafford County Showground

    International Dirt Bike Show settling in to a new home at Stafford County Showground

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    Words and pics: Tim Britton Have you ever moved house or workshop? I bet you have and it’s always an uncertain time – you know the move is going to be better, you wouldn’t have moved otherwise, but there is that adjustment period to contend with first. So it is with the International Dirt Bike…

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  • From the Archive: On the Weekend – 2016 Vets MXdN

    From the Archive: On the Weekend – 2016 Vets MXdN

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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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  • Dirt Products

    Dirt Products

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    Getting a handle on things AJS Motorcycles – Stormer specialists – have reintroduced their ‘SPEEDLINE’ branded classic scrambles handlebar. These are ‘bars which follow the classic shape used by scramblers in the classic period. Hand-made in the UK from premium quality steel and bronze welded to ensure maximum strength and resist cracking, the technical stuff…

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  • From the Archive: A touch of déjà vu

    From the Archive: A touch of déjà vu

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    When Triumph’s twin engine needed a better chassis for ISDT use, eyes turned to Hampshire and Eric Cheney’s workshop. On the face of it Triumph’s twin, designed in the 1930s, ought not to have still been at the forefront of competition 30 years later, but it was. There are a number of reasons for this,…

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  • Rob Edwards Tribute

    Rob Edwards Tribute

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    The trials world has been mourning Rob Edwards, who died in October. The smiling Teesider is forever associated with Montesa but rode for AJS and Cotton too. There is to be a tribute to Rob, on Saturday only, at the Classic Dirt Bike Show with Alan Lampkin and Dave Thorpe who travelled with Rob in…

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  • In to Europe…

    In to Europe…

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    No, not a comment on the Brexit chaos dominating the UK at the moment but a reference to the ECMO classic MX series held in various European countries. Chris Lewis, of Elsinore 74, called up and said he, along with his sponsored rider Kris Winder, is mounting an attack on the ECMO championship in 2020.…

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