Despite the evident popularity of the Kop Hill Climb amongst some of the greatest racing car drivers of the pre-war era, it wasn’t car racers that started the Kop Hill Climb. That accolade belongs to an enthusiastic group of motorcyclists who, in 1910, keen on proving their machines, raced up the winding Chiltern hill. Over a century later, we made sure that each year we celebrate those pioneers.

Each September Kop Hill once again comes alive to the sounds of cursing and kick starting, thrashing twins and megaphone pipes. Two hundred or more bikes, ranging across a hundred plus years of mechanical chain, belt and shaft driven complexity all ridden, of course, with great brio by riders both young and old, once again turning our paddock into a veritable cacophony of two-wheel history.