Plugs & Leads: classic bike news

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 nicely for the next Spicers…

AMC at Ardingly

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 the low-down on what’s going…

Eurojumble Preview

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 which concentrates almost entirely on…

Show-Stoppers: Winter Classic

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 with outdoor stands on the…

Winter Warmer

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 additional halls – making this…

See Sheene’s machines at Stafford

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. These include the two RG500s…