The Classic MotorCycle

Taking the show on the road

The VMCC’s annual Banbury Run is the ideal place to fire-up one’s enthusiasm for pre-1931 motorcycles; a motorcycling carnival, with an amazing soundtrack and an intoxicating mixture of intriguing smells, as the combination of oils being used (two-strokes, four-strokes, while there’s always a few on Castrol R too) mingle with the aroma of bacon being fried in the early morning summer.

The British Motor Museum, which was formerly the Heritage Motor Centre, has been the home of this totemic event for the last few years, and the run is growing into its new surroundings, a place which is under seemingly constant development – this year,

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