Sam Hewitt

Heiden parts for Yamaha XS650

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Sam Hewitt

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25th June 2020

The Yamaha XS650 powerplant, bored out to 750cc, has been raced solo for some time in CRMC events and is becoming increasingly popular with classic sidecar crews, building a good reputation for strength and reliability. Heiden Tuning is a Dutch-based company that specialises in the XS650. Drivers can now obtain new cylinder blocks from Heiden.…
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International Dirt Bike Show postponed until 2021

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Sam Hewitt

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23rd June 2020

Due to the current situation with the coronavirus pandemic, Mortons Events have had to postpone the International Dirt Bike Show due to be held at Stafford Showground on the 31 October – 1 November 2020. The safety, wellbeing and enjoyment are essential parts of any show and under the current government guidelines, we don’t believe that this can…
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Inside the July/August edition of Classic Racer

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Sam Hewitt

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18th June 2020

Classic Racer magazine celebrates the greatest racers and racing motorcycles in history, where motorcycle-racing legends truly live on. Classic Racer magazine covers everything from tests of historic racing machinery, written by those who rode them, to tales of the heroes who made the sport great. With detailed bike profiles we take you so close to…
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Classic TT cancelled

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Sam Hewitt

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18th June 2020

The damage caused to the racing calendar by Covid-19 continues, with one of the latest victims as we closed for press being this summer’s Classic TT/Manx Grand Prix. Laurence Skelly, the Island’s minister for enterprise in the House of Keys, announced the cancellation of the event, which had been planned to run from August 22…
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Giacomo Agostini: Life and career in pictures

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Sam Hewitt

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16th June 2020

Giacomo Agostini celebrates his 78th birthday today (June 16) so there’s no better time to reflect on the Italian’s illustrious career. Thanks to Mortons Archive, here’s a collection of rare photographs chronicling a career which saw him win a record 15 world championships and 122 motorcycle grand prix. At the 1965 350cc Isle of Man…
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From the archive: Bubba Shobert

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Sam Hewitt

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14th June 2020

All American Champion Bubba Shobert was following the established American path to the World Championship. A three time AMA flat track Grand National Champion, a US Superbike Championship, and a Honda ride in the 500cc World Championship. Great things were expected, but it was not to be, as Norm DeWitt explains. Words: Norm DeWittPhotographs: Shobert…
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Kawasaki’s Fearsome Formula 750 Racers

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Sam Hewitt

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7th June 2020

In the early 1970s, 500cc Grand Prix racing was boring in the extreme, usually consisting of a cruise to the chequered flag by Giacomo Agostini and the MV Agusta ahead of a field of outdated British singles.
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Barry Sheene's first 500cc Grand Prix win

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Sam Hewitt

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5th June 2020

In 1971 he scored three GP wins on the ex-Stuart Graham 125 Suzuki at Spa, Belgium; Anderstorp, Sweden and Imatra, Finland. He’d even won the 50cc GP in Brno, Czechoslovakia, as guest rider for the Van Veen Kreidler team, but his results during the following years on the continent were a faint shadow of that…
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Mike Hailwood: The fastest teenager on Earth

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Sam Hewitt

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4th June 2020

‘The fastest teenager on earth.’ That was how the press described Michael Hailwood in 1959.
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Archive: John Surtees wins the 1960 Senior TT

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Sam Hewitt

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4th June 2020

This is John Surtees in 1960, en route to winning the Senior TT. His MV Agusta was easily the fastest bike compared to the following gaggle of Norton singles, with a time of 2 hours, 12 minutes and 35.2 seconds, at an average speed of 102.44mph. MV Agusta team-mate, John Hartle, was second, three minutes…
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