The Classic MotorCycle

Don Hitchcock’s last motorcycle journey

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Sam Hewitt

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10th August 2018

Don Hitchcock’s last motorcycle journey was clocked from the pillion of the hearse by grandson Matt at 65mph on Wednesday, September 14, 2016. One last blast; a fitting memorial to a life centred around family, motorcycles and speed. Originally, it was my intention to write a tribute solely to Don, but this was not possible…
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Adrian Reed collection offered

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Sam Hewitt

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6th August 2018

Bonhams has announce the sale of the Adrian Reed collection on Saturday, October 13, at its two-day Autumn Stafford Sale. The single-owner collection comprises 40 machines spanning the turn of the 20th century through to the 1960s. Highlights include a circa 1930 Henderson Model KJ Streamline Four (£25,000-35,000), a circa 1919 Henderson 1147cc Model…
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Blueprint bike

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Sam Hewitt

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3rd August 2018

It’s not often one is allowed to get too close to a prototype. They’re usually tantalisingly out of reach behind ropes or on an elevated and rotating platform in the middle of a show hall; to stand over one, touch it or sit on it is a rare privilege, to start one up and ride…
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Netley Marsh Eurojumble 2018

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Darren Hendley

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2nd August 2018

Whether you need one particular part or you just fancy a mooch through mountains of motorcycling memorabilia, you should make a date in your diary for one of Britain’s biggest bike jumbles. The Carole Nash Eurojumble is celebrating its 25th year, returning to Netley Marsh, between Cadnam and Totton, Hants SO40 7GY, on Friday, August…
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September 2018

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Sam Hewitt

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30th July 2018

Archive photograph News Flywheel Festival Dijon Letters Subscribe and save Royal Enfield 175cc prototype Moto Guzzi 500S Silk 700S Hitchcock (Jock and Don) story Touring in 1949 John Bull Rally Classic TT preview Closer look – 1958 Manx GP Brian Slark interview Men who mattered – Richard Wyler Triumph 3TA/5TA rebuild Roy Poynting column Jerry…
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Editor’s Welcome

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Sam Hewitt

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30th July 2018

This was always going to be the busiest period of the year, what with events every weekend, and so it has proved. The Flywheel Festival kicked things off, a superb weekend down there, which afforded the opportunity to exercise the KTT too, though I also took the Rex-Acme and gave that a run. It was…
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Local hero James Cadet

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Sam Hewitt

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16th July 2018

This little James has never left the area in which it was bought when new, serving several owners, just a few miles apart, well. In 1958 the hula-hoop was invented, rock star Elvis Presley topped the charts with ‘Jailhouse Rock,’ Wolves won English football’s first division and in the UK the price of an average…
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Optical illusion Triumph T120/140 Bonneville

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Sam Hewitt

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14th July 2018

With this cleverly modified Meriden-made Bonneville twin, what you see is not what you are really seeing… The illusionists’ art has been in the news recently, when well-known magician David Copperfield was taken to court after one of the punters at his show chosen from the audience to participate in a disappearing/reappearing trick, fell and…
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Long-term lightweight 1959 Bianchi Gardena 75

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Sam Hewitt

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12th July 2018

On my way to examine Adrian Coole’s unmolested-looking Bianchi Gardena 75, I once again ask myself a question that always stumps me when I go and report on a sub-125cc motorcycle from the past. What is it that’s changed so much over the decades that small capacity, lightweight motorcycles have so dropped out of favour…
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An unapproachable Norton Model 21

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Sam Hewitt

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10th July 2018

Not all Nortons are deserving of the famous phrase, but this one is. To say Norton’s designation of its various models was rather obscure is a bit like suggesting Geoff Duke was quite a good racer – true, but a gross understatement. As well as the occasional use of letters, Norton coined names for the…
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