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Barred!
Geert de Boer adjusts the throttle lever on the right handlebar to three-quarters open, closes the air lever, floods the carburettor and sets the magneto lever on the left bar to nearly full advance. Then he rolls his bike forward as he turns the coffee grinder handle on the left side of the petrol tank…
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Two careful owners
Lovely 1957 picture of Roy and Doreen touring on the Triumph. Here, they’re at Land’s End. I didn’t regret selling the Tiger One-Ten at the time,” says Hampshire enthusiast Roy Houghton, speaking of the Triumph he’d bought new in 1956. “I wanted a car so the bike had to go, it was as simple as…
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Bigger than ever!
Sunbeam Model 9, dating to 1927, being ridden stylishly by Luca Boccardo. Kork Ballington drifted his 1981 lime green Kawasaki KR500 around the outside of Danilo Gardella’s Ducati Mike Hailwood Rep, and accelerated out of the horse-shoe shaped Parabolica before disappearing through the double-right turns that lead to the start-finish straight. But Danilo didn’t mind…
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The camera does lie
Every picture tells a story, right? So, here we have the start of a race and Giacomo Agostini, on the MV, right, is streaking away into an unassailable lead, probably on his way to a comfortable, record-breaking victory in another world championship year. Well, it was a championship year for Agostini – but apart from…
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Bonhams breaks records
The BS4 was the highlight lot in the collection ‘The Broughs of Bodmin Moor’, which sold 100% to achieve a collective £752,625. These iconic, rare British motorcycles were believed to have been destroyed, until Bonhams’ motorcycle department discovered the eight machines in 2015 in a remote Cornish village. The motorcycles were discovered whole, in parts,…
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A Shakespeare appreciation
The Vincent motorcycle legend was founded on performance. Circuit racing, hill-climbing and sprinting, the Stevenage-built bikes seemed to go better with age. Almost without exception, the headline-grabbing examples of the marque are now museum exhibits, often seen, but rarely, if ever, heard. Vincent club member Rob Staley thought it was about time he and his…
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Sunbeam and Steve star at Stafford
Sean Kelly’s wonderful Model 90 Sunbeam was chosen as Best in Show. The 36th Carole Nash International Classic Motorcycle Show at Stafford county showground, over the weekend of April 23-24, attracted its usual huge crowd, all drawn to the event by its mixture of fabulous autojumble, brilliant club and private entries, vast array of trade…
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Foggy at the Goodwood Festival of Speed
Representing the Triumph brand, Foggy, will ride two of the British marque’s current bikes, two supplied by the National Motorcycle Museum, the Triumph Bonneville that Malcolm Uphill took to victory in the Production TT and the 750cc Production TT-winning Triumph Trident, ‘Slippery Sam’. Read more news in July’s edition of TCM
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Sixth Ixion Cavalcade
Once again the cavalcade started from Saint Barnabas’s church on Sea Road in Bexhill where Basil Davies was a priest from 1926 to 1940. Here, Andy Brown, on a 1902 1¼hp Clement-Gerrard, gets a bit of assistance down Sea Road, while in the background Rob Pond is push starting his 1914 500cc Triumph. John Mijatovic Read…
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Guy in Scotland
Winner was Dan Clark. A notable performance was the ninth place of James Lampkin on his dad’s ex-works BSA C15. Photo: Fiona Watson Read more news in July’s edition of TCM
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