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  • Race, Rock ‘n’ Ride 2017

    Race, Rock ‘n’ Ride 2017

    LOUD MACHINES AND EVEN LOUDER MUSIC CONFIRMED FOR RACE, ROCK ’N’ RIDE Critically acclaimed tribute act Limehouse Lizzy will headline the evening entertainment at Santa Pod’s Race, Rock ’n’ Ride – a high-speed, tyre-screeching weekend of action on the famous quarter-mile strip. The weekend-long festival of motorcycling is back for its second year at the…

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  • AMD International Custom Bike Building Show

    AMD International Custom Bike Building Show

    Custom bike building has, over the last number of years, become a huge phenomenon. What is to many an art form married to engineering know-how, and Ireland’s only qualifier for the AMD World Competition comes again to the Carole Nash Irish Motorbike & Scooter Show.   Deltran Battery Tender sponsors this ‘show within a show’. Deltran…

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  • Mark Woodward’s Classic Car and Bike Show! 23.4.17

    Mark Woodward’s Classic Car and Bike Show! 23.4.17

    START your engines and turn the dial up on your car radio – it’s high time you got some wind through your hair and headed to Ripon. Why? One of the biggest events on the motoring calendar returns to the city’s racecourse on Sunday April 23rd and it coincides with the UK’s annual ‘Drive It’…

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  • Triumph Launches New Street Triple Range

    Triumph Launches New Street Triple Range

    Triumph Motorcycles, the UK’s leading large-capacity motorcycle manufacturer, has announced prices for its new 2017 Street Triple range. Lighter than its predecessor with higher-specification brakes, tyres and suspension, the highest level of finish ever and an all-new gullwing swingarm, the Street Triple S is priced at £8,000 and has been built to deliver a thrilling,…

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  • Midnight Runner ~ the Electric Café Racer

    Midnight Runner is a collaboration between Italian electric motorcycle company Energica and Apache Custom Motorcycles, and was an ambitious project to combine two companies apparently very distant from each other. Apache worked on an Energica Eva, the electric streetfighter, and created this new electric café racer called Midnight Runner. This motorcycle was unveiled at Motor Bike Expo…

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  • Magic Action Promotions ~ Yorkshire MAG

    ‘Slap my wrists and call me Dave’ but I’m forever getting told off for referring to Into The Valley, The Farmyard Party and The Yorkshire Pudding as MAG Events, but that’s because in my head, as they are raising funds to support MAG, then to me, and probably quite a lot of other people, they are MAG. But…

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  • Irish Motorbike & Scooter Show 2017

    Irish Motorbike & Scooter Show 2017

    Here’s a link to discounted ticket sales for the Carole Nash Irish Motorbike & Scooter Show at the beginning of March. This is a fabulous show covering every genre of two wheeled transport and also host to a round of the AMD Custom Bike Championships. Back Street Heroes will be there with a stand so…

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  • B.S.A ~ The Steve Gibbons Band

    This one made me smile 🙂 https://youtu.be/F2DJLVWZASw

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  • The Black Douglas Motorcycle Co.

    The Black Douglas Motorcycle Co.

    The Black Douglas Motorcycle Co. “Milan to Bristol, Expedition No. 2”, May 2016: the awaited Official Video…. And for 2017, an update of the range and new adventures on the road, and maybe a new Expedition … No. 3?

 Milan, February 2017.  Some figures regarding the Expedition No. 2: a trip on “two wheels” from Milan (Italy) to Bristol…

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  • W & W Cycles present: The Bootlegger

    Once upon a Time in the Boondocks Y’all may be forgiven to think that the only Harleys round our back porch are at least 30 years old, the older the better. Well, there yer wrong, folks. Jes’ the other day we got us a mighty fine late model 883 Iron Sporty for them pesky trips…

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