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Randy Mamola loses works ride After finishing a disappointing 10th in the year’s 500cc GP title chase, Giacomo Agostini’s works Yamaha team released McElnea who immediately entered into talks with Suzuki, Cagiva and Elf. Despite finishing second with 158 points, just 20 adrift of Wayne Gardner’s Honda, Kenny Roberts’ Lucky Strike Yamaha team dumped Mamola,…

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Brough Superior SS80 Restored by Brough guru Tony Cripps, the nicely mellowed 1000cc machine joins a host of other classic machines, with more coming in daily. To keep appraised of what’s going on at the sale, visit www.bonhams.com or call 08700 273616. For more information about the 19th Carole Nash Classic Motorcycle Mechanics show, visit…

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November’s The Classic MotorCycle out now! This month's contents includes… • News    • Founders Day    • Eext GP    • Subscribe and save    • West Kent Run    • Letters    • Men who mattered (Val Page)    • John Surtees interview    • Classic advert    • For various budgets (enclosed models)    • Jerry Thurston column    • Archive photograph: The…

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Rare bikes at Cambridge auction The lot with the highest estimate is a bespoke 2011 JMC Egli Vincent Lightning replica 1200cc with just 700 miles on the clock. It’s expected to fetch between £30,000 and £35,000. Other items include a 1930 Enfield J Type, 1955 BSA C11G, 1959 James Comet, 1938 BSA C10, 1964 Raleigh…

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Rain fell throughout the day and the start straight quickly got churned up at the late September event, which was organised by the VMCC Grasstrack and Speedway Section. Stuart Towner on his 1930 Rudge was undeterred though, and defeated Men In Black vintage speedway rider Terry Stone (Douglas). The Smith family from Nuneaton also enjoyed…

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One free with TCM, the other reprinted by Haynes The November issue of The Classic MotorCycle, on sale October 5, will come with a free reprint of The Motor Cycle from April 1908. Why that particular week? Well, that was the week the 1908 London Olympics began, adding a neat symmetry with 2012, when of…

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New speed record on Autobahn BSA submitted its new 500cc side valve, the Val Page designed M20, for British Military MEE (Mechanisation Experimental Establishment) assessment at Farnborough, Hampshire. The test concluded that the model needed a major overhaul, causing the MEE to describe its reliability as ‘fair’ while considering it not entirely suitable for military…

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Stu Measures takes part in the trials demonstration, aboard his Royal Enfield Bullet With some sun beating down too – though the ground was decidedly ‘springy’ hinting at what had gone before… – enthusiasts converged on the Leicestershire site, with the ever-popular autojumble first port of call for many. They were greeted by the usual…

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Classic British Legends on sale now Classic British Legends is a 132 page collection, the first of a series, which celebrates the nation’s two-wheeled dream machines, the men who rode them and the tracks that played host to their greatest triumphs. It covers everything from Triumph Bonnevilles, Barry Sheene and Cadwell Park, through to the…

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