2016 Manchester Bike Show

Now in its 5^th year this show is well in to the swing of things the all the usual suspects in attendance, bike manufacturers, clothing, tools and of cause the bike clubs. However this year there feels like there’s been a shift, the clubs attending did the organizers proud with a massive variety of machinery.

Manchester Bike Show

Well on a very wet Sunday morning I headed over the Manchester Bike Show which is now its 4^th year, and once again its grown in size again. As per the usual the first hall is primarily the haunt of the dealers and manufacturers, with all the big boys present as per the usual, Honda, Bimoto, Ducati, Yamaha, Royal Enfield, Triumph, Indian, Victory etc

The 15th Classic & Modern Japanese & European Motorcycle Show

 

Well we’re well into 2014 and that means the show season is starting the stir in the UK. Thanks to Andrew Greenwood for the tickets, our first show was over at Donington Park for the Classic & Modern Japanese & European Motorcycle Show. So it was an early and cold start to a Sunday morning for the 85 mile drive to the historic racetrack.

Yamaha OX99-11

Commissioned by the Yamaha Sports division rather than the bike one this supercar was based around Yamaha’s V12 F1 engine that was sat in the current Brabham at the time, granted detuned to only 400bhp. An engine that had yet to produce a win! The original development had started around 1990 but unhappy with the conventional supercar design that the first design company came up with Yamaha turned to IAD on the south coast of England. Within a year they had built this, a tandem 2 seater that had a definite F1 car look about it.