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  • Royal Enfield: Leicestershire New Technology Centre

    Royal Enfield: Leicestershire New Technology Centre

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    Royal Enfield has confirmed development of a technology centre based in Leicester-shire, designed to support their long term product strategy (it says here…) The new UK centre will focus on R&D in partnership with a larger tech centre based in Chennai; no manufacturing will take place at the Leicestershire base. Speaking about the announcement, Siddhartha…

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  • Pride Of Ownership At The NEC

    Pride Of Ownership At The NEC

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    This autumn the Classic Motor Show will expand to host a new hall full of classic bikes, and RC readers are invited to demonstrate their Pride of Ownership… Classic motorcycle enthusiasts have been promised a treat by the organisers of the Classic Motor Show. The 2008 Show sees a brand new hall dedicated to motorcycles…

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  • Huge Online Auction Gets Underway

    Huge Online Auction Gets Underway

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    Over 100 vintage vehicles are up for grabs in the first online auction of its kind. Here’s the highlights, and the classic bikes we’ll be watching over the next 10 days… If you’ve never taken part in an online auction then this is the ideal moment to jump on the bandwagon. There are always plenty…

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  • RC Reader Competition: Win FREE Tickets!

    RC Reader Competition: Win FREE Tickets!

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    Wanna see the White Helmets, Solent Eagles, heaps of trade stalls and all the attractions which form Beaulieu’s annual Motorcycle World? We’ve got ten tickets to give away to RealClassic readers – so you could be going along for FREE! As usual, the Beaulieu Motorcycle World weekend on June 23rd and 24th 2007 promises to…

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  • Free Netley Marsh Eurojumble Tickets for RealClassic Readers

    Free Netley Marsh Eurojumble Tickets for RealClassic Readers

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    The RealClassic Roadshow returns to the Netley Marsh Eurojumble this autumn for the first time in five years. So we’re celebrating by giving away ten pairs of tickets to RC magazine readers… We haven’t taken the RC Roadshow to the Netley Marsh Eurojumble for a few years now. The event used to take up a…

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  • Historic Hill Climb Revived

    Historic Hill Climb Revived

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    A veteran hill climb venue is being brought back to life in autumn 2009. Vintage and classic motorcycle riders might like to take on this new challenge… Kop Hill, Princes Risborough, is one of the oldest Hill Climb venues in England. In the period between 1910 and 1925 Kop Hill was one of several hill…

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  • Crimbo Quiz – Answers to British Bike Bonanza

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    37/ Who manufactured bikes at Selly Oak? Answer: Ariel 38/ Who manufactured bikes at Small Heath? Answer: BSA 39/ Who manufactured bikes at Monarch Works Tyseley Birmingham ? Answer: Excelsior 40/ Who manufactured bikes at Lower Ford Street Coventry? Answer: Excelsior & then Francis Barnett. 41/ Who manufactured bikes at Greet, Birmingham? Answer: James 42/…

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  • Motorcycle Art

    Motorcycle Art

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    Immortalise your P&J in a painting – and claim a 10% discount if you subscribe to RealClassic magazine… If you stopped by the RealClassic stand at one of the shows this autumn, then you’ll have noticed the rather handsome artwork we had on display – an original painting of our faithful Mk3 Commando in its…

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  • Classic Bike News, February 2009

    Classic Bike News, February 2009

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    The world of classic motorcycling loses one of its famous names, but in many other respects the shows still go on… Les Harris Not many folk are capable of converting their ideas into metal. Les Harris was one of those. His business was originally based around the manufacture and supply of spares, mainly Triumph spares…

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  • BSA B50SS Gold Star

    BSA B50SS Gold Star

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    British Bike Auction Results Over £1.4 million was spent on classic motorcycles at the Bonhams auction at Stafford last month. The highest bid was, inevitably, for a Vincent Black Shadow, but we were watching the prices of some more down to earth classic British bikes… Looking through the sale results from the Bonhams auction at…

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