News
Donnie McLeod at Lanark
16 May 2012
Eighties GP ace, huge trials fan and joint guest of honour at Lanark Donnie McLeod talks with Dave Craggs about his past track experiences, the Lanark Show and the Armstrong he used to ride...
Trials ace meets stunt ace
13 May 2012
Trials ace Brian Marr, who filled in at the last moment to do our demonstrations, and stuntriding legend Kevin Carmichael display their skills in a spontaneous performance for the crowd...
Other News
Feature Articles
TT Tribute
16 May 2012
Honda’s GB500TT was the coolest of the Japanese big singles. This one’s been tweaked to make it even cooler.
bike test: A grand idea
5 May 2012
If you’re a regular OBM reader then you’ll have seen our Can-Am project in these pages a time or two. Fancy winning it? Read on…
Other Feature Articles
Unearthed
5 May 2012
Sears Roebuck, the American mail order stores, sold a number of vehicles under their own name over the years, commencing in 1908 with the Sears high-wheeler buggy made for them by the McCurdy Buggy Company in Evansville, Indiana. They later opened their own factory in Chicago. In the Fifties the small Henry J saloon made by the Kaiser-Frazer Corporation was sold as the Allstate by them, and the Puch SGS 250 motorcycle was later also sold under this name. Ady Sexstone sends me this photograph of the Sears Allstate version he’s acquired. I’ve helped him register it on an age-related plate.
DMW
5 May 2012
Allan Clift in Redruth sends me this photograph of the DMW 197cc Deluxe model he purchased at the Bonhams sale at Shepton Mallett. It’s the same bike that he borrowed from W H Collins Motorcycles of Truro way back in the early Fifties when his own bike was off the road for repair. Collins’s later sold it and he never saw it again until the Bonhams sale. He always remembered, however, that it had an Albion gearbox, twin front brakes and fittings for a tank top tool bag – all features pointing to possible ISDT use. The gearbox shell had to be a one-off to fit to the back of the Villiers engine. The last tax disc issued by Cornwall County Council expired in 1956. Was KAB 882 a works development bike? I’m assisting Allan to recover the registration number.
Other Unearthed
Current Issue: May 2012
• 56 Pages
• Hundreds of classifieds
• Latest classics news
• Bikes tested
• Out & about
• Rare bike finds
PLUS:
• Next issue on sale: 2nd June 2012
