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Sunbeam and Steve star at Stafford
The Classic MotorCycle backed show at Stafford saw a Best in Show award for a fabulous Sunbeam, with guest of honour Steve Parrish a popular appointment. 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…
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A Shakespeare Appreciation
Vincent Day at Shakespeare County Raceway took place on April 17, 2016, with Stevenage’s finest celebrated in noisy style. 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…
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Bonhams Breaks Records
Bonhams Stafford Sale set a new world-record price for a Brough Superior and for any British motorcycle sold at auction, as the gavel fell at an astounding £331,900 for the 1938 Brough Superior 750cc BS4. The BS4 was the highlight lot in the collection ‘The Broughs of Bodmin Moor’, which sold 100% to achieve a…
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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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Club stand success for DOT at Stafford
Among the award winners were the DOT Owners Club, which picked up the award for Best Club Stand, while Sean Kelly’s gorgeous 1928 Model 90 Sunbeam was Best in Show. Read about the show and see a picture of the Sunbeam on page 21. Read more news in July’s edition of TCM
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