Due to the current situation with the coronavirus pandemic, Mortons Events have had to postpone the International Dirt Bike Show due to be held at Stafford Showground on the 31 October – 1 November 2020. The safety, wellbeing
Read moreLatest Posts
Inside the July/August edition of Classic Racer
Classic Racer magazine celebrates the greatest racers and racing motorcycles in history, where motorcycle-racing legends truly live on. Classic Racer magazine covers everything from tests of historic racing machinery, written by those who rode them,
Read moreClassic TT cancelled
The damage caused to the racing calendar by Covid-19 continues, with one of the latest victims as we closed for press being this summer’s Classic TT/Manx Grand Prix. Laurence Skelly, the Island’s minister for enterprise
Read moreGiacomo Agostini: Life and career in pictures
Giacomo Agostini celebrates his 78th birthday today (June 16) so there’s no better time to reflect on the Italian’s illustrious career. Thanks to Mortons Archive, here’s a collection of rare photographs chronicling a career which
Read moreFrom the archive: Bubba Shobert
All American Champion Bubba Shobert was following the established American path to the World Championship. A three time AMA flat track Grand National Champion, a US Superbike Championship, and a Honda ride in the 500cc
Read moreKawasaki’s Fearsome Formula 750 Racers
In the early 1970s, 500cc Grand Prix racing was boring in the extreme, usually consisting of a cruise to the chequered flag by Giacomo Agostini and the MV Agusta ahead of a field of outdated British singles.
Read moreBarry Sheene's first 500cc Grand Prix win
In 1971 he scored three GP wins on the ex-Stuart Graham 125 Suzuki at Spa, Belgium; Anderstorp, Sweden and Imatra, Finland. He’d even won the 50cc GP in Brno, Czechoslovakia, as guest rider for the
Read moreMike Hailwood: The fastest teenager on Earth
‘The fastest teenager on earth.’ That was how the press described Michael Hailwood in 1959.
Read moreArchive: John Surtees wins the 1960 Senior TT
This is John Surtees in 1960, en route to winning the Senior TT. His MV Agusta was easily the fastest bike compared to the following gaggle of Norton singles, with a time of 2 hours,
Read moreStafford Classic Motorcycle Show postponed until October
Following the UK Government advice on the coronavirus pandemic we have unfortunately had to postpone our April/August Stafford Classic Motorcycle Show once again. The safety and well-being of our visitors, exhibitors, partners, contractors and staff
Read more