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  • Lightning Strikes at Ardingly!

    Lightning Strikes at Ardingly!

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    The Ardingly Classic Bike Show and jumble returns to the South of England Showground on Sunday 29th October 2023, rounding off the season in style with a Vincent theme. Vincent is synonymous with world speed records; perhaps the most notable being Rollie Free’s ride on the Bonneville Salt Flats in 1948. Riding a Black Lightning,…

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  • Plugs & Leads: news from the classic motorcycling scene

    Plugs & Leads: news from the classic motorcycling scene

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    CRAVEN KITS FOR ENFIELD CLASSICS Owners of the current Royal Enfield Classic can now fit vintage-style Craven luggage to their machines, making the popular 350s even more practical. Craven Equipment have already produced fitting kits for the Meteor, Interceptor and Continental models, and now the Classic 350 can be easily equipped with Craven’s stylish and…

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  • Bristol Classic Bike Show

    Bristol Classic Bike Show

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    A hundred years of BMW bikes, the 75th birthday of the BSA Bantam and a stack of Norton rotary racers. All this and more at Shepton Mallet at the end of the month… The ‘and more’ of course includes the RealClassic Roadshow, which you should find in the Edmund Rack hall, by the main doors…

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  • Outward Bound: classic bike shows, rides and jumbles

    Outward Bound: classic bike shows, rides and jumbles

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    Diary dates: updated 5 Jan 2026. Old bike autojumbles, vintage motorcycles rides, club runs, local classic bike shows and utterly enormous events… FRI/SAT 9/10 JANUARY>The EXETER TRIAL starts at Sparkford and ends the following day after 185 gruelling miles at Kingsteignton in Devon. A true test of winter grit on two, three and four wheels…

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  • Ride-In to Romney Marsh

    Ride-In to Romney Marsh

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    The popular Romney Marsh Ride-In Show and bikejumble returns on 8th May, for the first of three events scheduled for the 2022 season. As well as the usual motorcycle-only jumble, with outdoor pitches and more stalls in a huge marquee, this event also includes a special ride-in show. Visitors riding to Romney Marsh on a…

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  • UPDATE: Ardingly AUTOJUMBLE CANCELLED

    UPDATE: Ardingly AUTOJUMBLE CANCELLED

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    The South of England Winter Classic Bikejumble was scheduled to take place at Ardingly in West Sussex on Sunday 17 January. Unfortunately, new tier arrangements mean IT WILL NOT GO AHEAD as planned. The next classic bike event at Ardingly is instead scheduled for Sunday 28th March 2021. It’s not been easy for any event…

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  • Plugs & Leads: classic bike news

    Plugs & Leads: classic bike news

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    In this week’s news round-up we’ve found some smashing old trials bikes going under the hammer; spotted perfect panniers for Royal Enfield owners; report on Japanese classics in the New Forest, and can tell you where it’s all happening on Sunday 13 September (a clue: it’s in Kent!) Old Bikes at AuctionEntries are lining up…

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  • AMC at Ardingly

    AMC at Ardingly

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    The South of England Classic Motorcycle Show and Jumble celebrates 80 years of AJS and Matchless motorcycles on Sunday 28th October 2018 – and five RC subscribers will be able to attend the event for FREE! So if you subscribe to the monthly magazine, look out for the competition with the September edition. Meanwhile, here’s…

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  • Eurojumble Preview

    Eurojumble Preview

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    As ever, this year’s Eurojumble offers ample opportunities to buy lots of classic bike bits – but if you happen to have too many of those already, then there’s also the chance for a clear-out. Turn your unwanted spares into cash, and help someone else complete their project… Eurojumble is reassuringly old-school kind of autojumble…

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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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