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The International West Kent Run has found apermanent home at The Friars, Aylesford. This yearwas as well supported as ever. Words and photographs: ALAN TURNER It may be months before the International West Kent Run, but every year, January is but a couple of days old before the eponymous Vintage MCC section has received a…

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Monday, September 2, saw 150 former mud-pluggers gather at Ibsley village hall for the annual Perce Simon Trial reunion. Gleaming in the early autumn sunshine was a superb collection of off road bikes from the 1960s, while inside enjoying tea and cake was a line-up which read like a ‘who’s who’ of feet up stars…

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Once a year (this season on August 18) the Southend & District Motor Cycle Club organises the Donut grass track at Latchingdon in Essex, referencing the modest oval course and the bonus packets of doughnuts for award winners. The short track is a great leveller, when a good start and racecraft can make up any…

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On display at Sammy Miller’s Museum, is this rare 125cc two-stroke. It was manufactured in 1975 in New Milton at the Queensway Estate, only one mile from the museum, by the Rickman brothers Don and Derek. This model used a Zundapp engine. With only 12 miles from new, Ken Bridges bought it brand new and…

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There’s another stunning first prize in the National Motorycle Museum’s summer 2019 raffle – in the form of another brand new, old stock machine. This time it’s a 1977 Triumph Trident T160V which has never been run or registered and is showing just nine ‘push’ miles only. Second prize is a Sealey Retro Style 10-drawer…

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These vintage look lace-up ankle boots have a casual style and are made with full grain leather which is waterproof. The ankle, toe and heel has reinforcement and there’s a leather shift pad. They have an anatomic footbed and the rubber sole is high wear-resistant. They were comfortable straight away and I have not had…

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Surprisingly, after 85 years in existence, this year, on August 24, marked the Vintage Sports Car Club’s first visit to Brands Hatch. The four-wheelers of all ages, marques and capacities were joined by six Morgan three-wheelers, all at least 90 years old, but patently wearing well. While not troubling the leaders, they had their own…

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Off-road sport lost one its great innovators when ‘Robbie’ Rhind-Tutt, the man whose Wasp three wheelers monopolised the sidecar motocross world during the 1970s, died on September 12. After leaving school in 1956, Robbie was an apprentice at the Boscombe Down experimental site and it was here he got his first taste of motorcycle sport…

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Santa Pod looked back once more with a truly impressive cavalcade of bikes for the annual Dragstalgia earlier this summer. A decade before the Dragfests brought the sport to this country, George Brown had rescued a written off Vincent to build his ‘Nero’ special. Successful in sprints and hill climbs, Chris Illman had the bike…

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