Events

  • Show-Stoppers: Springfields Motorbike Show

    Show-Stoppers: Springfields Motorbike Show

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     Roy Workman celebrates a great start to his motorcycling year, with a second bike show in a single month. He discovered plenty of modern and classic motorcycles – and an unusual lightweight lurking amid some Moto Guzzis… The Springfields Motorbike Show is held alongside the Springfields Shopping Centre, just off the A16 near Spalding. The…

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  • Show Stoppers: See you at Shepton

    Show Stoppers: See you at Shepton

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    The RealClassic Crew will be setting up shop at the 38th Carole Nash Bristol Classic MotorCycle Show this coming weekend – if you come along to the Royal Bath and West Showground at Shepton Mallet, be sure to stop by and say hello! You’ll find the RC Roadshow in the main hall, aka the Showering…

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  • Show-Stoppers: Winter Classic

    Show-Stoppers: Winter Classic

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    It’s brave to hold a bike show in the middle of winter but, as Roy Workman reports, most of this event is tucked away indoors. Held over the first weekend in January, the CBG Winter Classic effectively kickstarts the new motorcycling year. For the more hardy autojumblers there is a large marquee, while other traders…

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  • Winter Warmer

    Winter Warmer

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    The Carole Nash Classic Bike Guide Winter Classic takes place on 6th and 7th January at Newark Showground. The indoor venue offer a safe haven from whatever the weather is doing (although some brave traders do set up their stalls outside, braving Jack Frost and brass monkeys), and this year the organisers have added two…

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  • National Motorcycle Museum LIVE!

    National Motorcycle Museum LIVE!

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    This annual open day is well named – the Birmingham bike museum absolutely came alive with chattering, happy crowds on a very wet and windy November day. The normally peaceful environment which envelopes the world’s largest collection of British bikes was set aside for ten hours of non-stop activity. The conference suites were transformed into…

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  • Museum LIVE Open Day

    Museum LIVE Open Day

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    In case you missed us at the Stafford Show this month, the RC Roadshow will be rolling along to the National Motorcycle Museum’s LIVE event on Saturday 4th November 2017. This free-to-enter event not only gives you access to the world’s largest collection of British classic bikes but also incorporates a jam-packed schedule of special…

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  • Stafford Show Report

    Stafford Show Report

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    Each year, the line separating classic British steeds from Japanese classics seems to blur a little more, with some vintage Oriental iron now being 50 years old. Add in the usual suspects from Italian and German manufacturers, and the result is a classic bike show with something for all tastes… as Morgan Rue found out…

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  • See Sheene’s machines at Stafford

    See Sheene’s machines at Stafford

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    The Carole Nash Classic Mechanics Show is so mightily immense that you could easily spend all day at the showground and still not see everything. So here’s our handy-dandy guide of what to see at Stafford this October… The Suzuki Village is a special feature, displaying a stack of rare racing machines of the marque.…

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  • Sand & Motorcycles

    Sand & Motorcycles

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    There’s a long-standing relationship between old motorcycles, historic steam trains and sand quarrying, centred around Leighton Buzzard. It’s celebrated each year by this Sand and Motorcycles show, organised by the Leighton Buzzard narrow gauge railway and the ‘Beds Clangers’ section of the Royal British Legion Riders… More than 750 motorcycles, some 90 scooters, and three-wheelers…

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  • Boston Bike Night

    Boston Bike Night

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    Every year, for one night only in July, the small town of Boston in Lincolnshire overflows with motorcycles of all shapes, sizes and descriptions. Roy Workman went along to admire the classic bikes… It seems like only yesterday that I was at this meeting last year. Time really does fly when you’re enjoying yourself! This…

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