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Best in Show – 1925 546cc Husqvarna 180 owned by R. Hann Judging motorcycle classics seems to get harder every year as the standard of the restored products, typically, is better than left the factory production line during manufacture. We thank every exhibitor who displayed a bike at Bristol, because there were many superb machines…

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Over 600 classics on display at Bristol Sadly our guest of honour Sammy Miller won't be able to make it today, due to poor health. He offered his apologies to showgoers. His museum Moto Guzzis won't be on display. But there are still 600 other classics, trade stalls, the Norton Domiracer and thousands of other…

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Legend Sammy Miller interviewed by Tim Britton Belfast born Sammy has had a remarkable motorcycling career. He started as a racer on a shoestring budget, with great success, then transferred his skillset to trials riding, where his abilities allowed equal success. Renowned as a non-faller, Sammy won just about everything in every discipline of motorcycle…

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Domiracer fired up Chris's bike is as near as anyone will get to the rare racing machine, as the project was wound up shortly after the original bike finished third in the 1961 Senior TT behind Mike Hailwood and Bob McIntyre who were on highly tuned race-bred Manx Nortons. The original Domiracer, developed from the…

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Gates open at Bristol! The 33rd Carole Nash Bristol Classic Motorcycle Show runs today and tomorrow (February 16-17) at the Royal Bath & West Showground and promises to be a weekend of growling precision-made engines, lively debate about motorcycling days gone by and appreciation for some of Britain’s finest bikes. The queues at the pedestrian…

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Setting up in readiness for weekend show Labelled the 'Bristol' Show as a tribute to the Show's origins, it's actually held 25 miles down the road at Shepton Mallet, Somerset… The Bristol Show is the third largest classic show in the UK and probably the most popular for those who want to soak up the…

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With various routes, the trial catered for a number of classes with the ‘over-50s’ (riders, rather than bikes) and Pre-67/twinshock both attracting good entries, although the trial was a relatively local event. The pre-67 bikes were an interesting mix of the Spanish two-strokes that revolutionised trials in the sixties and the once obsolete British lightweights.…

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“Regulations governing the visibility of number plates have just been made by the Ministry of Transport. While this means that the pile of Acts and Regulations becomes a fraction higher – goodness knows how many laws and regulations now affect the motorist – the new regulations are essentially sound. In the past the regulations rather…

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