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It is a car event, but the motorcycle presence increases every year. For those of a liberal outlook, there were plenty of interesting cars as well as automobilia stands and even period dance displays. The speed activity of the re-created event is centred on a sprint around part of the the Mercedes-Benz test track. Among…

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Riding his 998cc Vincent-HRD V-twin Ginger (S) Wood recorded 12.50 seconds to set second best time, gain the Fernihough Cup for the best non-expert time and move status upwards to expert. Just three one-hundredths of a second behind Wood was sprint motorcycle builder Francis Williams with his 498cc Cotton-Blackburne. The Motor Cycle’s scribe finished his…

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Trying to ignore the soaking conditions, Jack Bennett gets his International Norton off the line Like most hill climbs, the course is narrow, sinuous and, with a long downhill start, very fast in places. While more competitive riders use modern v-twins or motocross machines, the club also encourages the use of older bikes that contest…

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Roger Pailes gets his 500 Triumph sprinter off the line at Thorney Island The quarter-mile course ran slightly downhill, but the advantage was more than cancelled by a headwind. In the Vintage class Bernard White got his times on his Douglas down to 13.14/96mph, but it was not enough to catch John Young who, in…

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August TCM with free supplement on sale now! • Editor's intro • News • ASI Motoshow • Letters    • Subscribe and save   • Banbury Run   • John Ruth interview   • Men who mattered   • For various budgets (top-class 250s)    • Jerry Thurston column    • Moto Guzzi V8 – history and test     • Which model?…

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Proud Velo winner Carl Storer, with prize, at VMCC headquarters That's a proud Carl in the photograph above, outside the Vintage Motor Cycle Club headquarters after collecting his prize. Full results for raffle were: First prize: 1959 Velocette Venom 500cc Winner: Carl Storer from Leeds Second prize: Davida Classic helmet, courtesy of Davida UK Winner:…

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For months rumours suggested development of the side valve 4½hp parallel twin was under way at the company’s Priory Street, Coventry works. The engine was designed to fit transversely across the frame while a single skew gear driven camshaft running in line with the frame operated all four valves – exhaust to front and inlet…

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Surrey owner Bob Wheeler pulls his rare D13 from the BSA Bantam Club’s line-up at the Amberley Show By 1958 BSA's Bantam was entering its tenth year of production. Developments in that time had included a 150cc version, which also had a swinging arm frame. Perhaps to help convince the public that changes went deeper…

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Randy Mamola Mamola finished the race 40 seconds behind the winning Honda of Australian Wayne Gardner and was 10 seconds slower than Eddie Lawson’s second place Yamaha. First British riders home were Rob McElnea (Suzuki) and Ron Haslam (Elf-Honda) in sixth and seventh respectively. The year’s 250cc GP championship winner Sito Pons (Honda) won the…

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