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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Dave Jones poses with the 1913 Ariel he’d borrowed from Chris Thomas. The first day of spring 2016 (March 20) and the Sunbeam MCC’s Pioneer Run ushered in the start of the riding season with the 77th trip to Brighton for strictly controlled, genuine veteran machines. Some light early rain had cleared by the time…

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Frank Kay bought this hard-used Greeves Hawkstone scrambles bike in 1980 and registered it for the road. It was a sharp contrast to the previous week, when the annual Ashford Cattle Market event had been hit hard in the aftermath of storm Katie. While there were a number of regularly attending bikes, organiser Julie Diplock…

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