New & Features

  This year sees the long-awaited re-launch of the VMCC’s Festival of 1000 Bikes at Mallory Park on July 7/8 and although 75% of available entries have already sold, there is still time to be part of the action. As in past festival years the event gives enthusiasts the opportunity to ride their own machines…

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  The annual Classic Motorcycle Show at Amberley Museum in West Sussex is well-established in the calendar.  For anyone with an interest in industrial heritage, old machinery and traditional crafts, Amberley has a lot of it on offer. Add in fine weather in which to admire long lines of old motorcycles and it becomes a…

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The Norton Owners’ Club Austria – Sulzbach Branch – is organising this year’s Norton Owners’ Club International Rally at the campsite next to the Red Bull Racing Circuit, Spielberg, Styria, Austria from August 15 to 20, 2018. There will be guided rideouts and special routes suitable for the speed and brakes of vintage motorcycles from…

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Following on from the above draw results the National Motorcycle Museum is pleased to announce the details of its next raffle. Museum director James Hewing said: “For our summer 2018 raffle the museum’s own restoration team has carried out a complete rebuild on a Royal Enfield Interceptor Series II, which we are offering as an…

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The top lot of Bonhams’ April Stafford sale was this 1931 Brough Superior 981cc SS100, which sold for an impressive £264,700, well above its pre-sale estimate of £170,000-220,000. The machine sold to a bidder in the room after an intense six-way battle. The proceeds of the sale are to benefit three charities – the Search…

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I enjoyed the feature on the Johnny Brittain Bullet (May 2018), particularly as I found and restored it. I was variously on the staff of The Motor Cycle or MCN during the 1950s and early 60s and also a trials rider myself with a penchant for trials Royal Enfield, so most weekends were spent following…

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Whengparts offer a range of weather vanes, key racks, helmet holders and signs, laser cut from steel or aluminium. This BSA Bantam key rack (right) is particularly eye-catching. Custom parts can be cut too; any flat shape can be produced or replicated. Whengparts also produces a range of clothing under its Kustom Shack brand and…

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It is generally accepted that February 19, 1928, is the date when the inaugural meeting of oval track racing in this country took place, behind the hotel at High Beech in Epping Forest. The big ‘sell’ was the new Australian import (‘Dirt Track Racing’) enabled spectators to see an entire event from one vantage point.…

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The Isle of Man Post Office has commissioned a set of 12 ground-breaking stamps, featuring TT greats of yesteryear – man and machine alike. The new Great British Motorcycles set celebrates innovation, incorporating both artwork and classic archive images for the Isle of Man Post Office collection. Harold Daniell, who raced the Manx Norton Single…

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The BSA Owners’ Club display managed a line-up of prewar Small Heath examples. East Kent has a lively classic transport scene, but with restorers not always keen to travel miles west, the Ashford Cattle Market site offers a relatively local chance for an opportunity in the limelight. Weather warnings of a biblical deluge for Easter…

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