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Besides the members of Coventry History Society and the Stoke Park Residents’ Association there were representatives from the Triumph factory, the National Motorcycle Museum, the Vintage Motor Cycle Club and the Triumph Owners’ Motor Cycle Club. The Triumph bikes on display ranged from the latest models right back to a 1902 version. Two Triumph sports…

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The de Guigne family is descended from French nobility and gold rush era magnates and are regarded as San Francisco Bay Area ‘royalty’. Motorcycles offered include four very original barn-find condition bikes: a 1948 BSA B31, 1968 Triumph T100C, 1974 Norton Commando and, most noteworthy, a 1948 Vincent Series B Rapide, shown above. Read more…

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The good people at the Museum Workshop have been tasked with restoring three machines; a 1946 Scott Autocycle, a 1926 AJS Big Port, and a 1929 500cc Royal Enfield. As you can see from the photograph, this will be no mean feat! 

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Top: The Sunbeam Model 2 of Top Gear’s Richard Hammond, apparently his first vintage bike, behind are his old and new Norton twins. Bottom: The Lynton, apparently a one-off, 500cc dohc twin created by Colin Lyster but abandoned before it was fully developed. As well as an assortment of classics on show, Top Gear stalwarts…

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Stephen Ashcroft with his Eric Langton bike. The mudguards will soon be chromed to complete a restoration that has taken around two years. A glittering, colourful mix of bikes represented the evolution of track bikes down the years, the inevitable common features were the lack of brakes and gears. A Rudge represented the earliest years…

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New issue\’s out! • Editor\’s welcome • Archive photograph   • News   • Diary    • Subscribe and save    • Letters    • Motorcycles at the NEC    • National Motorcycle Museum Open Day     • Le Puy Notre-Dame     • Triumph 3T superprofile     • Triumph 3T and 3TA     • Panther Model 65     • Tommy Barker…

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The Herb Harris Collection of Texas has long been synonymous with the finest in classic British motorcycles, particularly Vincent HRD. It was Harris who discovered and lovingly restored the famous Rollie Free ‘Bathing Suit’ Vincent. Motorcycles consigned from this collection include the 1946 Vincent ‘1X’ Rapide B Prototype, the first postwar Vincent produced and the…

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Take a long-obsolete 250 BSA C15 grass track bike, change tyres, invert handlebars, make sprint bike! Peter Thomas enjoys the result The ever-popular track at Westonzoyland, near Bridgwater, Somerset, will host four meetings in 2015, in May, June, August and October. In April, July and October, the action transfers to Shakespeare County Raceway in Warwickshire.…

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Justin Newell blasts off the line on his way to a new personal best John Young was back out on the 500cc Triumph-JAP after the rained-off trip to Bonneville this summer. The most improved rider was Justin Newell on his Hagon-JAP. Alf Hagon supplied many kit-form sprinters, but there are few survivors. Justin found his…

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Among the highlights for enthusiasts of earlier machines was this lovely 1937 Sunbeam Model 9A, which sold for strong money at £10,580, with taxes to add. Another Sunbeam, a late vintage Model 9/90 (and other models!) ‘bitsa’ was about fair at around £6325 as it needed work, with a racing trim Excelsior Manxman £12,650 and…

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