Classic Racer

Making it Faster II

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Sam Hewitt

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15th May 2018

Regular Classic Racer contributor and self-confessed petrolhead Norm DeWitt, has completed his book Making it Faster II and it’s available to purchase now. Although it majors on four-wheel sport, the 541-page publication is a great read for anyone interested in speed sport. You can track down a copy from the ISBN 9781948201001. Read more…
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Mr Hele, a question

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Sam Hewitt

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12th May 2018

Dear CR Great to see those lovely pictures and words about the ‘Rob North’ BSA Rocket 3 in the last issue. It’s good to see an original bike with genuine 19in wheels, forks and period Dunlop tyres. The part that interests me is that it was always said that the T150 was made by adding…
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CRMC News

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Sam Hewitt

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10th May 2018

Donington Classic Motorcycle Festival The future of the display bike parade at Donington Park Motorcycle Festival has been assured by MSV, the new leaseholder of Donington Park. However, the Paddock Suite, previously used to exhibit the display bikes, has been transformed into a new restaurant leaving the display in need of a new home.…
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War of attrition

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Sam Hewitt

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5th May 2018

Right from the start of the race it was the two fast MVs that got away with seconds in hand over the chasing pack. Indeed, by the end of that first lap it was the Italian Gianfranco Bonera and our own Phil Read who were both making serious headway from the chasing pack of…
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TT back at the Wheatsheaf

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Sam Hewitt

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3rd May 2018

Plans are coming together for the return of the TT Riders’ Association fundraising event at the Wheatsheaf, Louth Lincolnshire, on Sunday, July 29. Admission is free, you get the chance to mix with racing legends, see the most exotic race bikes up close, win great prizes in the raffle and bid for amazing memorabilia…
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New Chairman

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Sam Hewitt

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30th April 2018

Southern 100 Racing’s long-time club and race Secretary, George Peach, has been made Chairman of the organisation. George becomes only the sixth Chairman of the ‘friendly races’ since the event was first run in 1955. George will continue as Race Secretary for the three road race meetings the club organises annually on the Colas…
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The Honda CR93 The privateer’s ultimate weapon (and my eventually successful search for one)

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Sam Hewitt

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28th April 2018

I swear that a butterfly landing on a leaf would have been heard by all. Then the starter’s flag dropped; there was the patter of feet and the spluttered cacophony of assorted two-stroke engines; but above it all was the booming howl of the small collection of Honda CR93s that resonated off the surrounding low hills…
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Daytona Monument bricks

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Sam Hewitt

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25th April 2018

A packed crowd gathered at the Daytona Monument, which stands adjacent to the old start line for the original Daytona 200 beach race, to witness the placing of the latest memorial bricks during Daytona Bike Week. Pictured are Dick Klamfoth, three times a Daytona 200 winner, the original instigator of the Daytona Monument, and Daytona…
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Dave Simmonds (and Kawasaki’s ‘red tank racers’)

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Sam Hewitt

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23rd April 2018

Perhaps you have to go further back to the charismatic ‘naked’ US Championship superbikes of Eddie Lawson, David Aldana and Wayne Rainey in the late 1970s and early Eighties or the World Championship winning ‘tandem twins’ of Kork Ballington, Anton Mang and Greg Hansford in that same era. Or perhaps even further back to…
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Bristol show – the best in the west

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Sam Hewitt

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21st April 2018

At the 38th Carole Nash Bristol Classic Motorcycle Show held on February 3/4, at the Bath and West Showground, Tony Pashley took home the coveted best in show prize with his award-winning 1934 Model 95 Sunbeam. It was once displayed at the National Motorcycle Museum where it was a casualty of a devastating blaze…
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