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New issue’s out! CLASSIC RACER REGULARS • Editor's intro Malc sets the scene • Archive Shot Roberts arrives • Paddock Gossip Packed with news • Readers Write Have your say • Subscribe Get a better deal CLASSIC RACER PEOPLE • Rod Scivyer Adding some colour • Fred Merkel If you want blood • Bruce Cox…

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Roper will parade the very same 1959 Matchless G50, frame number 1709, that he rode to victory in the three-lap event in the Classic Racer Magazine Classic TT Lap of Honour on Monday 25th August. The parade lap is part of the Isle of Man Classic TT Races presented by Bennetts. "We've gone to great…

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Nine times TT winner Anstey was lying second last year in the inaugural Senior Classic TT when a piston failure caused his retirement on the second lap of the four lap race. Anstey commented that he had to re-learn all his old "250" lines where you used every inch of the road, and sometimes more!…

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The parade, a tribute to twenty-six time TT Race winner Joey Dunlop, takes place on the Isle of Man on Saturday August 23 as part of the Island's Classic TT Races. The Ballymoney man, who won four TT Races this year riding BMW's including the historic PokerStars Senior TT Race seventy five years after George…

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Bennetts Brough Superior, as the team will be known, will enter the Moto2 class with rider Luke Mossey competing on board the team’s innovative British-designed carbon fibre Carbon 2 machine. The project is headed by California-based Brits Paul Taylor and John Keogh, who are running the team on behalf of the soon-to-be relaunched Brough Superior…

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The illustrious riders – Joey Dunlop OBE (26 wins), Geoff Duke OBE, (6 wins), Mike Hailwood MBE (14 wins) and Phil Read MBE (8 wins), have accumulated a total of 54 TT Race victories between them. The trophies will be awarded to recognise class wins within the races where there is more than one class…

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Wheatsheaf, Louth. Be there! Star guests already confirmed to attend are two time TT winner Steve Plater, 12 time British champion Roger Marshall and radio/tv presenters and massive bike enthusiasts Andy Kershaw and Tony Carter. There'll also be live music, two auctions for 'money can't buy' items, a raffle and great food in abundance. Make…

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Since the introduction of motorbikes in 2011, the Concours has enjoyed nearly 80 two-wheeled entries including; a Brough SS100, a Ducati 750SS, an AJS E95 'Porcupine', a Harley-Davidson WLA, an Indian 8 Valve Works Racer and (one of 2013’s star attractions) the ‘Flying Millyard’ Board track Racer which was built specially for Salon Privé. As…

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Donald will line up on the team's 500cc Seeley G50 and 350cc 7R AJS as he did in 2013. Thirty-six-year old Donald, who rode the factory Norton at this year's TT, enjoyed a strong Classic TT meeting twelve months ago, with the highlight his second place overall in the 350cc Classic TT Race. The Melbourne…

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And he will be joined by modern day heroes among them John McGuinness and Michael Dunlop along with the three times British Superbike Champion Ryuichi Kiyonari. Sporting personalities are just one element of this “everything about bikes bonanza” with the chance to see some classic bikes, among them a selection of British machines from the…

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