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Well-Travelled Classic Racer
Dear Malc Thought you might enjoy the travel adventures of my latest copy of Classic Racer. When it arrived to my home in the eastern United States, I saved it for my upcoming international travels. I ended up reading most of it on my long flight to Bangalore, India, where I travelled on business. I…
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Comes a time…
I’ve been focused on the laptop screen for 20 minutes without typing a word. It’s not that I don’t know what I have to write… it’s that I’ve been struggling for a headline. As usual I’ve trawled the back catalogues of two of my favourite music legends; song titles have long been a source of…
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Letter: A Manx With History
Dear Malc The Mortons Archive photo (Classic Racer issue 181) of Rod Coleman on Douglas Quay shows my bike, which I have owned since 1995. Rod Coleman is shown being helped by fellow Kiwi NZ ACU Team Member Len Perry who also got a brand new Featherbed Manx. They had both been to the IoM…
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Welcome
Another Classic TT has passed and a really great event it was once again, although sadly things all turned a bit sour after the controversial Classic Superbike Race. For me there were some great highlights, not least the popularity and success of the Classic Racer Lap of Honour, which, thankfully, passed off safely with everyone…
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Welcome
I’m guessing that many of you grew up with the best motorcycling movie of all time, On Any Sunday? Steve McQueen starred in this iconic Bruce Brown movie, but the real stars of the show were the racers. Among all the other bike action the film followed Mert Lawwill as he defended his AMA Number…
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Amazing Memories
Dear Malc I was interested to see your reference to Malcolme Tunstall in your Welcome column in issue 179. In the early 90s, I think that it may have been 1991, I visited Daytona as part of a holiday that happily coincided with practice-day for the 200. Amazing Memories A friend in England had some…
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Welcome
I’ve been around motorcycle racing a very long time; in fact I’ve been around motorcycle sport, in all its forms, for a very long time. Welcome Growing up in a small Lincolnshire village within earshot of Cadwell Park I guess it was inevitable I would get hooked, and once I was my older cousin, Colin,…
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Praise For Morris
I really enjoyed the Dave Morris piece in the current issue of Classic Racer about BMW’s ‘forgetfulness’ in their PR for Michael Dunlop’s TT wins this year, but surely you too have forgotten something? If memory serves (not too well nowadays if truth be told!) John McGuinness added a further BMW TT win in the…
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Cadwell park anniversary
In your look back over eight decades of motorcycle sport at Cadwell Park 80th anniversary celebrations you seem to have missed the one major decade I cannot see or read any mention of the 1960s in your article? Surely this was a true classic decade, with the likes of Mike Hailwood, Phil Read, Bill Ivy…
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Island History
Dear Malc, My father, Alfred (Fred) Stride is a subscriber to your magazine and enjoys it very much. He was active racing back in the 1950s in various classes, he had a Douglas 250, an Itom 50, Manx Norton and an AJS 7R to name a few I can remember. He obviously wishes he still…
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