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  • Celebrate 40th Anniversary of Mike’s TT Comeback

    Celebrate 40th Anniversary of Mike’s TT Comeback

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    Arguably the most memorable and emotional moment in the TT’s 110 year history will be central to the celebrations at next year’s Classic TT presented by Bennetts, which forms part of the Isle of Man

  • MODS AND ROCKERS – A NEW WAY OF LIFE FOR NEWARK JANUARY SHOW

    MODS AND ROCKERS – A NEW WAY OF LIFE FOR NEWARK JANUARY SHOW

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    ELEMENTS of the scooter/motorcycle rivalry of the mid-60s will be showcased at The Carole Nash Classic Bike Guide Winter Classic show. The motorcycling event, now in its seventh year, takes place at Newark Showground on

  • KAWASAKI SANDWICH

    KAWASAKI SANDWICH

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    Editor Tony’s little quiz to identify the two riders in the Kawasaki sandwich in the great archive shot in the last issue of Classic Racer caused great interest, with my inbox jammed with correct answers

  • Lansdowne Season End

    Lansdowne Season End

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    The last two meetings of the year, both with the CRMC, were at the Donington Festival in August and their Race of the Year at Brands in October. Donington was a four-race programme with 41

  • Sexy Suzuki RGV500 rebuilt!

    Sexy Suzuki RGV500 rebuilt!

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    Kevin Schwantz’s 1989 Pepsi Suzuki RGV500 was restored to full working order at the recent Motorcycle LIVE event. The iconic Grand Prix machine was completely stripped, before being carefully and meticulously restored by Team Classic

  • Mackenzie Hodgson Insurance

    Mackenzie Hodgson Insurance

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    Triple British Superbike Champion Niall Mackenzie and World Superbike Champion Neil Hodgson have become insurance salesmen! With many race and former race stars fronting up big bike insurance companies for their own gain, this is

  • Anniversary Blade book coming!

    Anniversary Blade book coming!

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    The 25th anniversary of the Honda FireBlade (or Fireblade post-2004) was in 2017 and a new Mortons’ bookazine is coming along in 2018 to celebrate this fact. Written by our own editor Bertie Simmonds, it

  • French sale

    French sale

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    There’s a fabulous, eclectic range of machines on offer at Osenat’s sale, at the Salon Moto Legende in Paris, on Saturday, November 25. Ranging from a host of engines – mainly from French machines –

  • ÁNGEL NIETO 1947-2017

    ÁNGEL NIETO 1947-2017

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    Spain’s 13-time world champion and so-called ‘king of the tiddlers’ Ángel Nieto passed away on August 3, from head injuries sustained in a road traffic accident a week earlier. This saw him thrown off a

  • Colin Edwards Snr

    Colin Edwards Snr

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    Colin Edwards Snr, 72, of Montgomery, Texas, passed away on September 18, 2017. He was born on September 12, 1945 in Sydney, Australia. Colin, first and foremost a proud dad and grandpa who loved being

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