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  • Remembering Archie Goddard

    Remembering Archie Goddard

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    Sam Hewitt

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    My dad, Jim Mundy, raced with Archie Goddard in scrambles in the early-to-mid 1950s, and they were pretty good friends for a while, but then lost touch with each other after Dad gave up scrambling and moved over to trials. Archie, and his father Dick, had a motorcycle shop in Desborough Road, High Wycombe, in…

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  • Police evaluation Terriers recalled

    Police evaluation Terriers recalled

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    Sam Hewitt

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    The letter from John Lines on page 38 of OBM (August) was of interest to me as I run the Tiger Cub and Terrier ‘Register of Survivors’, and was interested to see if any of the machines he mentions were listed in it. The Register currently lists roughly 11,500 surviving bikes, frames and engines, but…

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  • International West Kent Run booked solid once again

    International West Kent Run booked solid once again

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    Sam Hewitt

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    A firm fixture on the vintage motorcycle enthusiasts’ calendar is the International West Kent Run weekend, and the 33rd such event took place at The Friars, Aylesford, on August 5-6, writes Tony Page. With a limited entry of 380, it’s actually a Thursday to Monday event, with social runs being organised each day except Sunday,…

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  • 55th annual Graham Walker Memorial Run

    55th annual Graham Walker Memorial Run

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Ninety-five pre-war motorcycles took part in the Sunbeam Motor Cycle Club’s 55th Graham Walker Memorial Run which started from the Beaulieu Motor Museum in Hampshire on Sunday, August 13, writes Tony Page. Promoted as ‘an informal gathering of motorcyclists in memory of the late Graham Walker, founder member and one-time president of the Sunbeam MCC’,…

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  • The joy of second-hand parts

    The joy of second-hand parts

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    Sam Hewitt

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    With the days of bottomless sources of cheap Japanese parts for classic machines now well and truly over, Steve Cooper brings this thought-provoking article. When the classic Japanese scene really took off in the late 1980s, restorers didn’t know just how lucky they were. Pretty much anything they needed for their mouldering project was on…

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  • Choosing the right wheel bearings for your bike

    Choosing the right wheel bearings for your bike

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    Sam Hewitt

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    When we’re involved in a motorcycle project and research the specifications for use of certain components, do we really understand what their code numbers mean? Take wheel bearings, for instance. Ronnie McLaren, who established Classic Bikes Scotland in 2015, and has been restoring British bikes since he was 15 years old, tells us that customers…

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  • Brackley Festival of Motorcycling is still riding high

    Brackley Festival of Motorcycling is still riding high

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Now in its ninth year, the Brackley Festival of Motorcycling has become one of the biggest motorcycle events in the UK, and is now spread out over 50 acres of the Northamptonshire town. Still run on a not-for-profit basis, the festival continues to put money into the local air ambulance (£100,000 to date) providing the…

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  • VMCC Taverners put on another great Founder’s Day event

    VMCC Taverners put on another great Founder’s Day event

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    Sam Hewitt

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    The Taverners section of the Vintage Motor Cycle Club managed another spectacular Founder’s Day event at Stanford Hall on July 23 – and this year’s theme, American motorcycles, resulted in some super examples of the Indian marque from the earliest days of the company right up to today’s modern motorcycles that are even giving Harley…

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  • VMCC Somerset Section launches Veteran Only Run

    VMCC Somerset Section launches Veteran Only Run

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Starting from the Haynes International Motor Museum at Sparkford, the inaugural Veteran Only Run, a new venture for the Somerset Section of the Vintage Motor Cycle Club, took place in glorious weather on Sunday, August 13. Although a modest eight entrants arrived for this specialist event over a flattish 46-mile route, broken by a coffee…

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  • OBM brings old friends together

    OBM brings old friends together

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Earlier this year, a letter to OBM from Brian Laitt was read by David Dearle, who hadn’t seen his old friend since the early 1960s. After we arranged for them to get in touch with each other, David made the trip from Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, to Brian’s home in Somerset last month, and they were reunited…

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