The Classic MotorCycle
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Lasota medals auctioned
Included in the automobilia section of the Dee Atkinson and Harrison Classic Car and Motorbike auction to be held on July 31 at East Yorkshire’s Driffield Showground will be memorabilia relating to ISDT competitor Pete Lasota. Lasota medals auctioned Peter James Lasota (1935-2011) was a career Army soldier with the Royal Corps of Signals, who…
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Dirt tracking in the UK
The third round of the Maxxis 2016 UK national flat track championship was held at Greenfield Farm near Alford in Lincolnshire on June 11/12. Dirt tracking in the UK Chris Scheltens’ purposeful-looking Triumph takes a breather. With various classes, it was the vintage category which produced the most interesting machinery, with a Harley XR750 doing…
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Wonderful Whitfield
Classic Motorcycle Day at the Dover Transport Museum welcomed a wide range of machinery to the Kent attraction. Wonderful Whitfield Alf Craker and his Sunbeam Model 9- judged Best in Show. The Dover Transport Museum was held at Whitfield this year, on May 8, in a former industrial unit up on the Downs, behind the…
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April 2017
[su_note note_color=”#c0142b” text_color=”#ffffff”]Current issue: April 2017 – Next issue: May 2017 – On sale: April 7, 2017[/su_note] CONTENTS Archive photograph… 6 News……………………….. 8 Letters………………….. 14 BSA A10 Super Rocket/Norton 650SS 18 Subscribe and save. 26 Bristol show………….. 28 ‘Velocette’ V2MAC special 32 NMM revamp…………. 40 Second World War dispatch riders 42 Panther Model 95….. 48 DMW trials…………….. 54 Matchless…
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July 2016
In the July 2016 issue: Special Scenic Winston Churchill – the history of an elder statesman among Burrells, Beamish commercials – the fleet reviewed, hidden tractors of ancient rome. Plus, 15 steamers for auction at keeled collection ‘ sale of the decade’. So don’t miss out – get involved and take out your print or digital magazine subscription…
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Sunbeam and Steve star at Stafford
The Classic MotorCycle backed show at Stafford saw a Best in Show award for a fabulous Sunbeam, with guest of honour Steve Parrish a popular appointment. 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…
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Editor’s Welcome
There’s something new and exciting happening in the powered, two-wheeled world. People are taking bicycles and adding small but powerful electric motors to them, thus enabling them to go further, easier, on their bicycle than they previously could. Somebody might even call it a ‘motorbike’ or even a ‘motorcycle.’ Which just goes to show how…
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Another New Hudson
I really enjoyed your article on the New Hudson in the March 2016 issue, good pictures too. Please receive the small photograph of my 1932 model OI 493cc SV, one of only two to have survived I believe. I restored it about 20 years ago and it is still as good as new. The specification…
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Oldest Aussie Rider?
I have been reading your mag for some time now and love its contents. At 91 David Griffiths is still enjoying riding. Good on you, David! I must congratulate the mention of the oldest Aussie rider in the February issue. I still ride and have copped enough flack lately about the numbers game. You know,…
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Editor’s Welcome
During the course of putting this issue together, several things have stood out to me, or at least raised questions and prompted thoughts. When reading up about and researching for the 1959 Bonneville story (see page 58) a couple of things came to mind. Among them is the idea that 1959 was perhaps the most…
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