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About to enter into its sixth running, the Carole Nash Winter Classic event – supported by Classic Bike Guide magazine – has become one of the favourite dates on the show calendar. Stunning bikes, several traders and star racers will all come under one roof on the first full weekend of 2017, with the Carole…

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A BIKE-MAD pair of TV engineering detectives are on the hunt for forgotten and hidden treasures tucked away in the sheds of Britain. Travel Channel presenters Henry Cole and Sam Lovegrove are about to film their next series which sees them rifling through the lock-ups and sheds of the UK. In previous series they’ve unearthed…

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Words: John Watterson – Photographs: John Watterson, Peter Faragher, Louis Porter, Richard Radcliffe and Mike Quayle. John McGuinness won his first Classic TT after four years of trying, the day after he had his maiden fall on the Mountain Course. In his 20th year of racing on the 37.7-mile Snaefell circuit, John McGuinness slid off Roger Winfield’s…

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When Killilane, traditionally the last race of the Irish season, was suddenly cancelled amid clouds of rancour and accusation, it fell to Armoy to provide a suitable finale to what has otherwise been an excellent classic road racing season. The picturesque north Antrim road circuit is no stranger to epic race battles and with all…

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Words: Bruce Cox Photograph: Roger Cooper The Brackley Festival of Motorcycling is a genuinely unique event in that it is the only town on the British mainland that is closed off to allow racing motorcycles run at speed along its streets. Back in 2008, organiser Roger Charlesworth and his team somehow persuaded the good burghers…

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