Sam Hewitt

Lucky Bart wins National Motorcycle Museum’s BSA Goldie raffle prize

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Sam Hewitt

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11th December 2017

Netherlands motorcyclist Bart Maatje became the lucky winner of the top prize in the National Motorcycle Museum’s Summer 2017 Raffle – a 1960 500cc DBD 34 BSA Gold Star – when his winning ticket No 9001753 was drawn by road racing superstars Freddie Spencer, Peter Hickman and Maria Costello at the Museum Live open day…
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Historic Welsh road race reborn

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Sam Hewitt

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11th December 2017

Motorcycle road racing is to return to the anti-clockwise 5¼-mile Eppynt circuit near Sennybridge, in the Brecon Beacons, on August 4-5 next year, with classes including Ultra-Lightweight, Lightweight Supertwin, Supersport and Superstock machines, along with a Zero electric class. In November 2016, the Parliamentary Committee for Transport repealed the Road Traffic Act that made it…
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Pete’s Prattle

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Sam Hewitt

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11th December 2017

Christmas is a time to reflect upon the year gone by and look forward to the season ahead, and in this issue we mourn the passing of motorcycling characters young and old, along with all the happy memories they gave us, as we start to think about what the new year might bring. One exciting…
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Greeves: Are these bikes still out there?

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Sam Hewitt

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27th November 2017

I have enclosed some photos of bikes I would like to find and possibly buy back, restore and put in my Greeves collection – if they are still out there. Finding the bikes would bring back many memories of when I used to travel all over the UK with my brother Eric Deal to trials…
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Memories in the Hawkstone sand

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Sam Hewitt

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25th November 2017

I smiled as I watched my two-year-old granddaughter Elsie playing in the sand. With the help of her mum, she was trying to make sandcastles, patiently filling her little red plastic bucket before tipping it upside down and hoping to make perfectly shaped castle turrets just like those she’d made by the seaside a couple…
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At your service: Polished fasteners – and a ‘Tigger’ for the road!

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Sam Hewitt

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25th November 2017

After investing in a CNC capstan lathe, Meriden Off Road of Brierley Hill, West Midlands, is now making a wide range of its own high-quality stainless steel fastenings for Triumph Tiger Cubs – and proprietor Chris Davies now plans to produce a ‘look-alike’ road-going version of his ‘world’s fastest Tigger’ sprint machine, writes Pete Kelly.…
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Readers’ tales: More nightmare bike journeys

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Sam Hewitt

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25th November 2017

Dim and dimmer – a freezing night ride to remember Bruce Preston recalls the night when the lights went out on a prewar 125cc Villiers-engined Triumph that cost him and a mate £10. I was rather looking forward to becoming a national serviceman, and the RAF decided that I would be trained to be a…
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Nightmare journeys with a BIG bit on the side

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Sam Hewitt

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25th November 2017

Towards the end of the 1950s I decided that I was fed up of riding my bike to meetings, stripping it down for racing and then (hopefully) riding it back home, so I acquired a BSA M21 with a large box sidecar. It was brought around in a van, so all I had to do…
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Taverners present £1000 to Loughborough hospice

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Sam Hewitt

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18th November 2017

One of the best motorcycle shows in the country is the Founder’s Day Rally organised by the Taverners section of the Vintage Motor Cycle Club at Stanford Hall, Lutterworth – and each exhibitor is asked to donate a stall item or make a donation to the section’s chosen charity. This year the section is supporting…
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Winners all at 90 years of grass track racing reunion

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Sam Hewitt

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18th November 2017

More than 150 supporters and former riders celebrated 90 years of grass track racing at a reunion in a conference suite at the National Motorcycle Museum on Saturday, October 14, writes Rob Lidgate. They included grass stars who competed from the 1950s and those who raced in this year’s Masters Championship, and the evening proved…
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