I wanted to say how much I enjoyed the article in OBM about the wonderfully talented technical illustrators who graced the pages of the motorcycle and motoring press in pre-computer generated days. My particular favourite
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Everybody’s gone surfing…
This is a photo I took at a park in Horsham, Sussex on Whit Monday, 1951 of grasstrack racing where the machines were towing surfboard riders. As I have never seen this activity either before
Read moreModel recognition time
This is a picture of my late mum and dad on their motorcycle – registration number EGX 724, taken in the early to mid Forties. I recently found it in a box of old photos,
Read moreAddled about Adlers
Thanks for publishing my piece and photos of horizontal-engined motorcycles in the August edition of OBM. The letter from George Simpson in Angus with the photo of a racerised water-cooled Adler MB250 taken back in
Read moreTwo-stroke trigarium
This was seen at the ever-popular ASI Motor Show which is held at the Autodrome di Varano de’ Melegari (Palma) in Italy each May. Hundreds of classic and vintage machines parade, race and generally show
Read moreSnetterton sidecars in the Sixties
I was just looking through some old negatives, and thought this may be of interest to fans of the Bit on the Side, feature. There are three ‘bits on the side’ here but l am
Read moreA pillion seat of desire?
Neil Cairns’ article in the September edition, The Autumn of a 1946 BSA C11, brought back some happy memories because my first bike was also a C11 and had an interesting tale attached to its
Read moreThree wheels on my Popemobile
I am a subscriber to Real Classic magazine and do not usually get to see Old Bike Mart. However, recently a friend showed me an article from your August edition by Mick Payne about sidecars,
Read moreChasing the leak
I am probably the last person in the world to find out about this but, just in case there is one other person that is struggling, here is something I have recently found out regarding
Read moreMore on that influential Scott
Regarding the letter in the June issue of OBM from Mr Wildsmith, I can inform him in some detail about the modified Scott he pictured. The bike was owned for over 50 years by a
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