The autojumble in your armchair

Subscribe
Classic Bike Hub Logo

The autojumble in your armchair

Subscribe
Buy Latest Issue

Sam Hewitt

  • Motorcycle Sport and Leisure wins MAG Media Award

    Motorcycle Sport and Leisure wins MAG Media Award

    by

    Sam Hewitt

    –

    The Motorcycle Action Group has presented Mortons Media Group’s Motorcycle Sport & Leisure magazine with its Media Award for informed, accurate, balanced and ethical reporting of issues relating to motorcycling and motorcyclists. MAG’s vice-chairman Andy Carrott said: “I nominated Motorcycle Sport & Leisure as it is perhaps the only mainstream motorcycling magazine that has consistently…

    Continue reading »

  • Vintage and classic bike show adds to Battle of Hastings Week celebrations

    Vintage and classic bike show adds to Battle of Hastings Week celebrations

    by

    Sam Hewitt

    –

    It was on a bright, clear and sunny October 14, 1066 that Duke William of Normandy set sail across the English Channel to beat King Harold and his Saxon soldiers in the Battle of Hastings, and for some obscure reason that disastrous and unmitigated defeat is still celebrated each year, writes Keith Rhodes. However on…

    Continue reading »

  • Pete’s Prattle

    Pete’s Prattle

    by

    Sam Hewitt

    –

    A single glance through Old Bike Mart reveals just how many great events the various sections of the Vintage Motor Cycle Club bring to us each and every month of the year. In this issue alone we have lovely reports by John McCrink on the Beamish Trophy Trial organised by the club’s South Durham section…

    Continue reading »

  • NOVEMBER 2017

    NOVEMBER 2017

    by

    Sam Hewitt

    –

    NEWS MADE IN JAPAN READERS’ LETTERS FROM OUR ARCHIVE READERS’ TALES AT YOUR SERVICE UNEARTHED DIARY DATES FEEDBACK DEALER FEATURE A BIT ON THE SIDE CLASSIFIED SERVICES GUIDE CLUB CALL December 2017 edition of OBM on sale December 2 – order your copy now!  

    Continue reading »

  • Outfits to the fore in Beamish Trophy Trial

    Outfits to the fore in Beamish Trophy Trial

    by

    Sam Hewitt

    –

    Local sidecar crew Ian Reavley and Colin Goode from Blyth, Northumberland, didn’t even have to leave the county to compete in the 45th Beamish Trophy Trial on September 17 – and on their 1935 Norton combination they beat their fellow sidecar competitors and all the solo riders as well to take home the Richard Hoare…

    Continue reading »

  • End of a glorious era as six White Helmets Triumphs come under Charterhouse gavel

    End of a glorious era as six White Helmets Triumphs come under Charterhouse gavel

    by

    Sam Hewitt

    –

    Sherborne auctioneers Charterhouse are selling six of the world famous Royal Signals Motorcycle Display Team Triumph motorcycles at their Sherborne salerooms on Thursday, November 16. More commonly known as the White Helmets, the display team was a group of serving soldiers from the Royal Corps of Signals who performed public displays of motorcycling skills, aerobatics…

    Continue reading »

  • Aaron Slight proves a big hit at 24th Carole Nash Classic Motorcycle Mechanics Show

    Aaron Slight proves a big hit at 24th Carole Nash Classic Motorcycle Mechanics Show

    by

    Sam Hewitt

    –

    Even the weather played ball for the 24th Carole Nash Classic Motorcycle Mechanics Show at the Staffordshire County Showground on October 14-15, when former Kiwi World Superbike star Aaron Slight told entertaining stories on stage with compere Steve Plater. After each session, large queues formed of people who wanted to meet Aaron and have items…

    Continue reading »

  • A Trotter-free zone!

    A Trotter-free zone!

    by

    Sam Hewitt

    –

    This month, for once, Mick Payne look at three-wheelers of a different kind, and points out that the idea goes back a very long time! While looking at the Honda outfit we featured in this column last month, a three-wheeler of a different kind caught my eye. “That’s my wife’s Lomax,” pointed out Anthony of…

    Continue reading »

  • Damp coils and blazing hair – a Honda CB400 trip to remember!

    Damp coils and blazing hair – a Honda CB400 trip to remember!

    by

    Sam Hewitt

    –

    Lindsay Norris, now living in New Zealand, set off on a Honda CB400F with a mate to the Italianate village of Portmeirion, North Wales, where the TV series The Prisoner was filmed. But he had no idea of the challenges ahead… It was January 1978, and I was a 21-year-old student living in London. I’d…

    Continue reading »

  • Are you ready for the onslaught of winter?

    Are you ready for the onslaught of winter?

    by

    Sam Hewitt

    –

    Back in the day, preparing a well-used bike for winter was simplicity itself, as these tips from the Mortons Archive show, writes Pete Kelly I suppose you have to be of a certain age to remember Albion lorries, but the tops of their radiator surrounds were always embossed with a ‘rising sun’ design to go…

    Continue reading »

Latest Issue

Subscribe
Buy Latest Issue

Next Issue On Sale:

Loading data…

Free Digital Issue

Search

Tags

Bonhams British classic motorcycles British motorcycle engineering British motorcycle history Carole Nash Christmas Gift Guide classic bike feature Classic Bike Guide Classic Bike Guide Winter Classic Classic Bike Hub classic bikes for sale Classic Bike Shows Classic Dirt Bike Show classic motorcycle auction UK classic motorcycle history Classic Motorcycle Mechanics classic motorcycles Editor’s intro Event hairy bikers Insurance International Classic MotorCycle Show Island Racer Isle of Man TT Japanese classic motorcycles JAP engine Kempton Autojumble latest issue OBM Letters Mortons Archive Mortons Books motorcycle history News Normous Newark Autojumble Old Bike Mart Sponsored Content Stafford Stafford Classic Bike Show Stafford Classic Motorcycle Mechanics Show Stratford Autojumble The Classic MotorCycle The Classic Motorcycle Mechanics Show Triumph Vincent Vintage motorcycles