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Winter Classic is here!

Our Classic Bike Guide Winter Classic Bike Show is just around the corner! The new year begins for classic bikers on January 6/7, when Newark Showground opens its gates to warmly (ish) welcome in 2024.

As well as a feast of classic motorcycles (and scooters), traders, jumblers and the howl of classics being given full throttle in the fire-up area, there are some true heroes of British motorcycling sharing details of how they kept the tattered Union flag flying in the industry’s darkest days.

When most were falling by the wayside, racer Trevor Nation and engineer Brian Crighton were a crucial part of the Norton resurgence in the late 1980s and early

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