Win tickets to the Clubman’s All-British Motorcycle Weekend!

By Richard Backus
Published on March 11, 2009
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Lovely circa-1964 Ariel Pixie at last year’s Clubman’s show

There’s still plenty of time to plan a visit to the 22nd Annual Clubman’s All-British Motorcycle Weekend at the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds in San Jose, Calif., March 28, 2009. Saturday’s show will feature more than 100 British bikes, with Ariel as the featured marque. The show and swap meet runs from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, and $1 raffle tickets for a 1973 Norton 850 Commando Roadster will be for sale. There will also be a “Morning After” ride on Sunday organized by the Ariel Owners Club.

This 1973 Norton Commando could be yours — tickets are only $1!

As anyone who’s made the show will tell you, this is a fully day of immersion in British motorcycles, with as many cool old bikes packed in the parking lot as inside the official show area. The day also includes a more general European motorcycle show, AMA professional indoor short track racing (these guys are nuts, racing indoors on slick floors with little between the riders and spectators besides hay bales and fencing – it’s great fun). This year’s special guest of honor is ex-BSA factor rider and 1964-1965 World MX Champion Jeff Smith, who rode his BSA B40 to six victories in 13 rounds in the 1964 season, and never once finished off the podium. Smith, who was inducted into the Motorcycle Hall of Fame in 2000, went on to help develop Can-Am motorcycles in the 1970s and was active in AHRMA and AMA, heading up AHRMA from the early 1990s until he retired in 1999.

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