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  The first H&H motorcycle auction of 2018, is on Sunday, March 4, at The National Motorcycle Museum in Birmingham. Consignments include a 1969 ex-John Lennon Honda Z50A monkey bike, while one of the star lots is a 1969 Honda CB750 prototype, which featured in early press coverage of the model. There’s a wide variety…

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The Talmag Trophy Trial (this year held on January 28) at Hungry Hill, Aldershot, is long-established as one of the premier events in the Pre-65 calendar. The regulations require bikes to appear as close as possible to those that might have appeared in competition either before the last war, or in the following two decades.…

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Sunday, April 15, will see the Glasgow Section of the VMCC running its now annual Pip Squeak event around rural Ayrshire. Initially this event was for mopeds and other small machines under 100cc but following last year’s successful inclusion of cyclemoters, the club now offers a choice of two routes, one for the really small…

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Winner of the 1954 Senior Manx GP George Costain has died, aged 88. From the Isle of Man, George won on Reg Dearden’s Manx Norton, the same source providing his machines the next year for his TT debut. George’s best TT finish was 13th in the 1956 Senior, gaining nine silver replicas in his career.…

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Brunch for more than 5000 seems a vaguely biblical feat, but it sums up the efforts of Brooklands Museum for its New Year’s Day Classic Gathering, billed as the largest such year-opening event. Whatever the excesses of the previous night, when the gates opened at 9am it started a seemingly never-ending stream of classic, vintage,…

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This year’s Prescott Bike Fest is set to be the biggest and best yet, with so much to do that organisers have now extended it to cover two days. The event will return to the Gloucestershire hill climb venue on April 14/15, and it will feature a hugely diverse range of machinery covering virtually every…

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It’s all trails leading to the Telford International Centre for the Classic Dirt Bike Show, over the weekend of February 17/18. Well-known off-road exponent and raconteur Colin Dommett is one of the guests of honour, and he’ll no doubt have some good tales to tell, with Colin joined by Gerrit Wolsink (twice runner-up in the…

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Sam Rhodes clinched the TCM Cup, awarded within the Lansdowne Race series, for ‘clubman’ type machines, picking up his trophy at the Lansdowne dinner on November 18, 2017. Campaigning Graham Austen’s 1954 MSS, Sam was a cut above his class competition, regularly getting about the Manx Nortons and Matchless G50s, on Graham’s pushrod, two-valve single.…

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