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Calling Classic Racer reader detectives!

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Sam Hewitt

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21st February 2017

Dear CR, Please can you help with some detective work? I bought a 1965 250xx ‘Air-Cooled’ TSS Bultaco Road Racer, one of 50 made before they produced the ‘Water-Cooled’ motor. Bob Coulter bought the Bultaco directly from the factory in April 1965, of which I have a copy of the factory records. Bob, from Ireland,…
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Wes Cooley: From hero to hell and back again

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Sam Hewitt

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21st February 2017

He raced motorcycles that tied themselves up in knots. He found that extra something that all champions manage to find. He took on – and beat – the best. One big crash and 12 days later the racing was gone. The twice champ from the glory days of US Superbikes had to find his life…
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Going it alone: The Kim Newcombe Konig 500

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Sam Hewitt

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21st February 2017

Like something from a Hollywood blockbuster, what a guy from New Zealand managed to make went out on track and stunned the racing world. This is the story of that motorcycle. Words by: Terry Stevenson Photos by: The Newcombe family, Rod Tingate, Patrick Stevenson, Terry Stevenson If you wrote this as a fictional story for…
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Hello and welcome to this month’s Classic Racer. I sincerely hope you enjoy it.

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Sam Hewitt

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21st February 2017

As my long-time friend, mentor and fellow paddock-gossip sharer Malc explained in the last issue of this fine racing publication, I am now in the hot seat. As such, these types of welcoming columns from new editors tend to be pretty much the same type of thing from whoever takes over the role. So let’s…
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TELFORD OFF-ROAD SHOW GUESTS OF HONOUR ANNOUNCED

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Sam Hewitt

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10th January 2017

The countdown has begun to the biggest classic off-road event of the year… and it’s all eyes on the Telford International Centre, which will once again host the two-day Classic Dirt Bike Show, sponsored by Hagon Shocks. The event takes place across the weekend of February 18-19, with one of the star guests having been confirmed…
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Stars and bars at Stafford October 15/16

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Sam Hewitt

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21st December 2016

On Any Sunday and Transatlantic Match Race stars David Aldana and Gene Romero proved to be extremely popular guests of honour at the Carole Nash Classic Motorcycle Mechanics Show, with thousands of fans gathering to see the legends at Stafford Showground. Also along for the weekend should have been Daytona 200 winner Don Emde and…
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Apache horse: Bimota’s racing beginning

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Sam Hewitt

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21st December 2016

Words and Photographs: Jeffrey Zani “its main strength was the chassis, its worst failing, the fairing.” This is an extreme summary of what worked and what didn’t on the YB1, the first racing bike ever made by Bimota, a plumbing company based in the city of Rimini, Italy, that in the early Seventies decided to…
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Ducati TT Symposium

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Sam Hewitt

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21st December 2016

The Isle of Man is the obvious place for a Ducati TT2 and TT1 symposium as it was the place that gave these race-winning motorcycles their name. In 2017 it will be 35 years since Ducati TT2s first raced – and won – at the Isle of Man TT and to celebrate, between August 25-28,…
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McIntyre Tribute

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Sam Hewitt

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21st December 2016

Michael Dunlop is to ride a replica of the 1957 500cc Gilera four during August 2017’s Classic TT, to celebrate the first lap of the TT Mountain Course at more than 100mph, set by Scot Bob McIntyre 50 years earlier. The Ulster rider has joined forces with Black Eagle Racing, creators of the accurate replica,…
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Arter Wagonwheels

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Sam Hewitt

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21st December 2016

Anyone who followed motorcycle racing in the late Sixties and early Seventies will remember the great combination of skilled engineer and brilliant rider that was Peter Williams, and his innovative Arter Wagonwheels Matchless. On the back of the success of the re-creation of the JPN Special, Peter and his team plan to revisit that hugely successful…
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