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The 2015 Bikers’ Classics Spa: July 3-5

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Sam Hewitt

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5th March 2020

During the 13th edition of the Bikers’ Classics on the legendary circuit at Spa-Francorchamps competitors and spectators suffered from a heatwave with temperatures up to 37ºC. Jan Burgers suffered the heat to bring us the story. Words and photographs: Jan Burgers The few race fans that had the courage to attend the event had to…
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A brief history of motorcycle sidecars

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Shannon Butcher

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4th February 2020

Uncommon as they are today, sidecars are an interesting footnote in motorcycling history…
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Geoff Duke: First global superstar of racing

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Sam Hewitt

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16th January 2020

Geoff Duke was the first global superstar of Grand Prix racing, the first to win three successive world championships and the first to win two in the same year.
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From the archive: The 2015 Sachsenring Classic – 80 years of motorcycle racing in one weekend

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Sam Hewitt

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16th January 2020

A total of 650 riders competed at the ADAC-Sachsenring-Classic in Hohenstein-Ernstthal in former East Germany. Thousands of spectators came to see the stars during the three-day event like in the old days before the iron wall was demolished. Words and photographs: Jan Burgers. The paddocks and pits were loaded with exotic bikes, the oldest being…
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From the Archive: Pre-TT Classic May 30-31 2015

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Sam Hewitt

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7th January 2020

An emotional Jamie Coward paid tribute to Ted Woolf and the people who had stood by him after a shattered lower left leg ruled him out for much of 2014. John Watterson shares his story and all the others around the Pre TT Classic. Jamie Coward returned to road racing at the Pre-TT Classic in…
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Freddie Spencer and the 1985 championship double…

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Sam Hewitt

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17th December 2019

After Freddie Spencer won his first 500cc title in 1983 at 21, making him the youngest person to do so, Honda created the radical NSR500 V4 for the following year.
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John Cooper: The rising star

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Sam Hewitt

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29th November 2019

Motorcycle racer John ‘Moon Eyes’ Cooper found fame and success during the golden age of road racing in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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Allen Millyard to take star role at London Classic Bike Show at Kempton

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Sam Hewitt

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27th November 2019

It’s the turn of rare bikes, a bustling autojumble and a very special guest at the London Classic Bike Show in Kempton on December 7.
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Wal Handley: No man ever passed this way more bravely

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Sam Hewitt

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14th November 2019

In Wal Handley’s heyday, as far as the Press and public were concerned, he was the greatest motorcycle racer of all time.
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Dave Potter: The Pride of Yorkshire

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Sam Hewitt

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14th November 2019

During the 1970s onwards there were plenty of privateers eager to challenge the factory Suzuki and Kawasaki riders, but there was one undoubted king of the underdogs – Dave Potter.
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