Sam Hewitt

Dave Simmonds (and Kawasaki’s ‘red tank racers’)

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Sam Hewitt

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23rd April 2018

Perhaps you have to go further back to the charismatic ‘naked’ US Championship superbikes of Eddie Lawson, David Aldana and Wayne Rainey in the late 1970s and early Eighties or the World Championship winning ‘tandem twins’ of Kork Ballington, Anton Mang and Greg Hansford in that same era. Or perhaps even further back to…
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Bristol show – the best in the west

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Sam Hewitt

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21st April 2018

At the 38th Carole Nash Bristol Classic Motorcycle Show held on February 3/4, at the Bath and West Showground, Tony Pashley took home the coveted best in show prize with his award-winning 1934 Model 95 Sunbeam. It was once displayed at the National Motorcycle Museum where it was a casualty of a devastating blaze…
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Call to arms

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Sam Hewitt

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20th April 2018

Welcome to your latest edition of Classic Racer. I sincerely hope that you enjoy it. By now, you’ve probably noticed the Great Racing Motorcycles DVD on the cover of this magazine. This fine documentary from our friends at Duke shows 50 iconic racing motorcycles in fine detail. If you bought this DVD on its own…
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Harley’s 2-stroke star One Year Wonder

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Sam Hewitt

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19th April 2018

The chance to ride the one and only factory Harley-Davidson 500GP racer ever built came on a sunny summer’s day at Pirelli’s Vizzola test track, just half an hour from the lakeside Schiranna factory near Varese where it was built during the winter of 1974-75. It has lived all its life near there, too –…
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May/June 2018

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Sam Hewitt

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19th April 2018

From the Archive More stunning photographs spanning the classic years of racing. From 22 to 50 years ago via an Italian/Swiss legendary master of the tiddlers. Subscribe! Here’s how this great deal works. If you subscribe to Classic Racer you’ll get the magazines for less money than you pay in the shops, you get your…
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April Stafford almost upon us

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Sam Hewitt

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16th April 2018

As usual, The Classic MotorCycle Show will bring you a fine selection of everything needed for a weekend of motorcycling indulgence, this year being held over April 21/22. Held at Staffordshire County Showground, you’ll find a feast of trade stalls, autojumbles, club stands and private entries. Guest of honour will be Neil Tuxworth, Honda’s racing…
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Make a date for Stavros on tour

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Sam Hewitt

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30th March 2018

Steve Parrish has a full season of his entertaining roadshow planned, which kicks off at The Trinity Arts Centre, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, on April 21. Call 01427 676655 for tickets and more information. Other dates, venues, and tickets are: April 28, Corn Exchange, Stamford 01780 766455; May 16, Entertainment Marquee, NW200, 02087 0832797; June 5, Gaiety…
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George Costain

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Sam Hewitt

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18th March 2018

Home racer George Costain’s main claim to fame was winning the 1954 Senior Manx Grand Prix, making it the first ‘Manx’ double in the September races – his fellow islander Castletown’s Derek Ennett having taken the Junior honours two days previously. George, a true gentleman of the track, died on Tuesday, January 9, aged 89,…
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Barry Sheene’s first 500cc Grand Prix win

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Sam Hewitt

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15th March 2018

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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Nobby Clark

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Sam Hewitt

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12th March 2018

After a long and brave battle against illness legendary technician, Nobby Clark has died aged 81. No other mechanic in the history of the sport spanned so many generations and worked with so many legendary riders – from Gary Hocking to Kenny Roberts – and Nobby was still involved in the sport he loved fettling…
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