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  • Keith Heckles Tribute

    Keith Heckles Tribute

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Both sons of the late Keith Heckles will return to the Isle of Man to ride in the Classic Racer Lap of Honour at this year’s Classic TT and Festival of Motorcycling in August, as a tribute to their father. Mark Heckles, who had a successful race career in the UK and Europe, including World…

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  • TT wheelchair challenge

    TT wheelchair challenge

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    Sam Hewitt

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    The son of an Isle of Man TT racer is bidding to make his mark on the legendary Mountain course, by pushing a specially-adapted wheelchair. Graham Inchley, from Andover, intends to cover the equivalent distance of the TT course, 37.73 miles, within eight hours on July 22, to raise money for the Joey Dunlop Foundation.…

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  • Jay Springsteen – Forever Fast

    Jay Springsteen – Forever Fast

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    Sam Hewitt

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    There have been many popular riders in American dirt-track racing across the decades but none have exemplified timeless competitiveness in the Grand National championships across three full decades of continuous racing in the Expert class. None except for Harley-Davidson’s Jay ‘Springer’ Springsteen. If you want the epitome of the word ‘legend’, then here he is. Words:…

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  • Island Racer 2017 – Your ultimate guide to the Isle of Man TT races

    Island Racer 2017 – Your ultimate guide to the Isle of Man TT races

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Island Racer 2017 is the ultimate guide to this year’s TT, featuring 148 packed pages of amazing TT action – and it costs just £7.99. Island Racer 2017 gets straight to the heart of this year’s Isle of Man TT action, featuring essential information to guide readers through every race, including a Where To Watch…

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  • Opening days: CRMC round one

    Opening days: CRMC round one

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    Sam Hewitt

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      The CRMC’s 2017 opening day, mid-March, saw all classes limited to one race following weather and oil issues but the Sunday at Snetterton saw dry, windy conditions and a full programme of races that produced some enthralling action. Russell Lee and Graham Lawlor were there to see the close season cobwebs being well and…

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  • What might (and should) have been: John Kirkby and the Alpha Centauri engine

    What might (and should) have been: John Kirkby and the Alpha Centauri engine

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    Sam Hewitt

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    How two men pointed the way to Britain’s racing future, but were eventually beaten by bureaucrats Words by: Pete Parnham Pictures by: Mortons Archive Lincolnshire’s John Kirkby was an extremely able racer and a man of very forthright words and views. In 1966 he was racing his own ex-Tom Philips Vic Camp Ducati, fitted with…

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  • FROM OUR ARCHIVES: Bob Smith – the peoples’ champion

    FROM OUR ARCHIVES: Bob Smith – the peoples’ champion

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    Sam Hewitt

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    EVERY now and again there arises a rider who could hop on any bike and blast the hell out of his peers. Mike Hailwood was one, Bill Ivy another. But there’s another example – albeit a much lesser known one – who shared the majestic two-wheeled prowess of both Hailwood and Ivy – Bob Smith.…

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  • Transatlantic Trophy: Part 4

    Transatlantic Trophy: Part 4

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    Sam Hewitt

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    As the world moved into a new decade in 1980, the Transatlantic Trophy (or the Anglo-American Match Races as the series was also known) was about to celebrate its own first decade in existence when the Easter weekend came around. Words: Bruce Cox Photographs: Mortons Archive and Bruce Cox Collection During the previous nine years…

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  • Classic GP: Anderstorp 1974

    Classic GP: Anderstorp 1974

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Drama rears its racing head for Barry Sheene and Giacomo Agostini in Sweden. Words and photographs: Jan Burgers The eighth round of the 500cc World Championship took place at a quiet, open place in the woods of Sweden. Part of the circuit was an airstrip and it was at this very fast part of the…

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  • Vince French: Mechanic to the superstars

    Vince French: Mechanic to the superstars

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    Sam Hewitt

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    There is an old saying that ‘behind every great man there is always a great woman’. But on the motorcycle racing scene, while women have always been plentiful, that saying should be more suitably paraphrased as ‘behind every great rider there is always a great mechanic’. It’s a maxim that was never more true than…

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