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Plymouth to Ivybridge Ton Up Boys 1962

Young Motorcycle Racers are gathered by a transport café on the A38 Exeter to Plymouth road. They are the ton-up boys taking off into the night. British biker subculture originates in the 1950s and is influenced by American pop culture and the rock and roll music of Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran and Chuck Berry. 1960s […]

TV show with great Motorcycle in it.

  Grantchester is a British TV series set in a Cambridgeshire village in the 1950s, where an Anglican vicar named Sidney Chambers — a former WWII Scots Guard officer — helps an overworked Detective Inspector Georgie Keating solve local crimes. Now, I grew up not far from here, 30 miles away to be exact, and […]

The Goodwood Revival Races

The Goodwood Revival is a three-day festival held each September at Goodwood Circuit since 1998 for the types of road racing cars and motorcycle that would have competed during the circuit’s original period—1948–1966. All great iconic machines, MV Augusta, Norton, Triumph, BSA, Honda etc, battling it out for a podium finish, the sound, the smell, the excitement is unreal […]

TON UP CLUB IN NORWAY 1958

Hey there All Happy Monday, and by now you have gotten over the chomping of Eater Eggs and the like and now back to reality and into work once more and try and get the week off to a bang, and I want to help by showing an old movie, not in English at all […]

Rockers Day with the S.R.B.C.

With the year of the Monkey now here, the Chinese year kicked off with the S.R.B.C. Rockers day and boy was that a really cool turn out for that event. Retro Rockers Documentary Trailer from Michael Rush on Vimeo. Below, al photos are copy righted to. Coan Kee  Max Tam Michael CW Chiu  and the major photos […]

The Humble beginnings of the 59 Club.

HOW THE CLUB BEGAN This is an article published about Father Bill when he passed away and his own words on the start of the club, It describes our first links with the ACE and how they are part of our history with few words by an early member Palladin My Memories of Father Bill […]

Socal Norton Club‎ 36th Annual Hansen Dam Ride and Show SUNDAY!

 Ok, this Sunday is coming around super fast and I shall be heading down to Hansen Dam for the Norton Owners Club 36th Meeting that is annually and boy what a treat this is. Last year was my First attendance at the Hansen Dam ride and boy did I have fun there, a few hundred […]

Great little Video to watch today!

Well, Friday already, so i thought I would just add a great little promo Video today and let you take it all in, has a great 60’s feel to it and good to see the Rapiers are still playing back home. So here it is.         Published on Jul 17, 2015 Recently, […]