Retro Classic

TRX TURNS 30

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RowenaH

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12th July 2025

2025 marks the 30th anniversary of Yamaha’s supersports twin, the TRX850. Jon Lambley helped to organise the bike’s big birthday bash… In late 2024, a few members of the Yamaha TRX Owners Group UK on Facebook, Andy, Paul, Adam and me, decided that we needed to plan an event to celebrate the 30th anniversary in…
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Yamaha TZR125

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RowenaH

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13th March 2022

Phil O’Hara wanted to make his learner-legal Yamaha stroker go faster. He also wanted to stop it oinking like a pig. The results of his experiments were a revelation… It was 1990 and I’d sold my car and required transport. These days one car generally replaces another, but this was then, not now. To substitute…
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Royal Enfield Electra-X: Enfield’s underdog

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RowenaH

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9th May 2021

The Bullet buying guides in RC198 and 199 prompted Keith McKechnie to put electronic pen to paper about his experience with a 2006 Royal Enfield Electra-X. It’s a machine which has become something of an orphan among Royal Enfield enthusiasts, he says: ‘but I’ve grown to like it over the years while sorting out a…
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New Dates for Classic Dirt Bike Show 2021

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Sam Hewitt

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19th November 2020

The UK’s biggest and best classic off road show is getting a new date for one year only, as the scene aims to fight back against the COVID-19 pandemic.
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