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Category: Features

Recognition at last: Stan Dibben

19th December 2013 Classic Bike Hub UK Features

The famous pair’s streamlined outfit Our delve in to the archive this month shows the futuristic streamliner that the duo wheeled out for the first time, pictured left, in practice at Spa Francorchamps during their

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Yamaha XS2 racer

19th November 2013 Classic Bike Hub UK Features

Yamaha XS2 racer In the autumn of 2002 Richard Cheetham, having celebrated victory in the CRMC’s Honda UK sponsored 350cc twins Championship, on his Honda, was looking round for a new challenge. The Sheffield-based electrical

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Archive: Earls Court Show 1966

17th October 2013 Classic Bike Hub UK Features

With a whopping price tag of £526-12s the Yamaha far exceeded most other race machinery on offer and was way ahead of all other 250s on price. Bultaco was still riding on the crest of

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An hour with Croz

5th September 2013 Classic Bike Hub UK Features

Croz woos the crowds at Stafford Suzuki wanted me to break the bike… I’d been called in to race the Trans-Atlantic races. The first round was at Brands Hatch and I was out riding on

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Ducati TT2 part one

25th July 2013 Classic Bike Hub UK Features

Start of the Formula 2 race at the 1984 TT The 1984 road race season promised so much, but as is so often the case in this cruel sport of ours delivered so little. For

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Norton International

9th July 2013 Classic Bike Hub UK Features

Stunning Norton International As many readers will know, the International Norton was the forefather of Britain’s longest serving and most successful racing motorcycle – the Manx Norton. First appearing in 1929, the Arthur Carroll and

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Suzuki RS68

16th May 2013 Classic Bike Hub UK Features

Suzuki RS68 125cc V-four One of the most complex Grand Prix road racing machines of the 60s has been brought out of obscurity in Japan after being hidden away for more than a quarter of

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Last gasp victory

18th April 2013 Classic Bike Hub UK Features

Spectacular Anglo-American racing It was no longer a foregone conclusion that the British team would pick up the spoils, in fact when they left Brands Hatch after an hectic Good Friday encounter they trailed the

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Road Test: Paton PG500R

14th March 2013 Classic Bike Hub UK Features

Paton PG500R Many times during that period it would have been easy to walk away from the challenge of competing at the very highest level, especially in the late 80s when the might of the

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Archive pic: Nigel Rollason and Donny Williams

21st February 2013 Classic Bike Hub UK Features

The pair at work… The duo, captured here in the fast sweeping Glen Helen section, took victory on an all British outfit, the Barton Phoenix which was powered by Barry Hart’s 750cc engine, originally housed

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