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New Zealand Classic Motorcycles & Sidecars

To see rare collectable classic motorcycles from Europe racing was one thing but to see Sammy Miller racing is something else!!

Classic Vincent wins award at City of Cycles 2007

Photo by BRB 2007 If it don't go chrome for a picture - Brian Evans In another words if it don't go you're hoarding junk?

1954 Vincent Shadow with owner Brian Evans & BRB

Welcome to Classic Motorcycles & Classic Sidecar Racing in New Zealand. In this section is a variety of Post Classic, Classic bikes, Classic Sidecars, the riders and teams who race these restored timeless machines. My first classic race meeting invitation was with the New Zealand Classic Motorcycle Racing Register (NZCMRR) held at Pukekohe Raceway Labour Weekend, October 2007.

When you combine the passion for motorcycles and the first time on the Pukekohe Race Park, you have a Labour of Love in motion. I personally love the history of the classic bikes and there are some amazing classic stories amongst these riders. I think everyone heard me in the pits that day when I spotted Bruce Anderson's 1929 S Model Harley-Davidson 'Peashooter' 350 Vintage. This is one of my favourite Harleys and this one wasn't behind a glass showcase, this was racing!!!

A Labour of Love by Brigit-Rose Bell was published in Bikerider Magazine, Issue #43. Megaphone magazine also published some great shots taken at the NZCMRR club meetings. Many Thanks to David Garrett, Editor. Classic Collections Coming!!

NZCMRR & EVENTS

Jamie Galway 515

CLASSIC FESTIVAL 2008

Paul Dobbs 198

NZ CLASSIC SIDECARS

Bruce Andersons Harley

Anderson & Mason

Bring it on....

Swanwick & Howe

N. & J. Mickleson

That's why I pay you a bonus...great shot!!

Ginger Molloy


	NZ Classic Sidecar Swinger
	"Bring a tear to grown man's eye because without Brigit we wouldn't have these priceless memories" J. Blaymires
26th December 2008

New Zealand Classic Sidecar Swinger Brett Sproull will be greatly missed on the tracks and circuits for the 2008 Classic Sidecar racing season and this tragic loss for John Blaymires on the Moto guzzi 950cc classic sidecar simply blew minds away after an amazing days racing at the Wanganui Cemetery Circuit 2007 on Boxing Day. Tribute Page for Brett Sproull and the Photo Collection for 2007 242 @ Have A Go Day 19th October 2008

Curly beating Dobsy?

Billy Mitchell

Jelaca 289

Jelaca & Cole

Mike King

Robert Creemers

Nick Cole Red Devils

British Motorcycle History

Due to interest and requests for a section on British and Classic motorcycles the site provides a brief history on three main British bikes in history written by George Bishop in his book "Encyclopedia of Motorcycling" and anything else I can find in the archives of my library on motorcycle history.

BSA: was one of the biggest motorcycle producers in England in the early years of the century until taken over in the 1970's. In 1979 the name was brought back on mopeds made by Norton-Villiers-Triumph. Famous models were the Round-tank (1924), Sloper (1928), Gold Star (1960), and big twins for sidecar work in the early days.
Triumphs: Since it's beginnings in 1902 Triumph has had a long and turbulent history. It is best known for a long line of vertical twins, which first saw the light of day with the Speed Twin in 1937 and continued with the Bonneville. The factory was bought by BSA in 1951, barely survived the recession of the 1970's as a worker's cooperative and finally went under in 1983, but was rescued by the Devon businessman Les Harris who bought the rights to manufacture the Bonneville from his Newton Abbot base.

Nortons: Norton manufactured some of the fastest and most respected track and road bikes ever to come out of Britain. The first Norton appeared in 1902 and five years later the factory won the first Isle of Man TT to begin a run of success that was to last more than a half of century It was absorbed into AMC in 1962, but was a shaky survivor of the British bike industry's collapse in the late 1960s, producing the famous Commando twins until the late 1970's. Since then limited numbers of the once revolutionary Wankel-Engined Rotary have been made for police and military use. Early 1987 a South African-born businessman bought the name and announced plans to resurrect the Commando.

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