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  • Pete’s Prattle

    Pete’s Prattle

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Nightmare bike journeys: we’ve all had ’em, and we all love hearing about them from fellow riders, so what are you waiting for? I’ll never forget riding my dustbin-faired 1000cc Moto Guzzi Le Mans from Alan Woods Motorcycles in Abergele back home to Peterborough one late afternoon in the early 1990s. After darkness fell, I…

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  • SEPTEMBER 2017

    SEPTEMBER 2017

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    Sam Hewitt

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    NEWS TECH TALK MADE IN JAPAN READERS’ LETTERS DIARY DATES READERS’ TALES FROM OUR ARCHIVE BOOK REVIEWS LLANGOLLEN FESTIVAL REPORT A BIT ON THE SIDE UNEARTHED FEEDBACK CLASSIFIED OBM SERVICES GUIDE CLUB CALL NEXT ISSUE: Saturday, October 7            

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  • Jurby Festival celebrates Bob Mac’s 100mph TT lap

    Jurby Festival celebrates Bob Mac’s 100mph TT lap

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    Sam Hewitt

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    An estimated 5000 motorcycles and historic vehicles will be at the Wemoto Festival of Jurby, Isle of Man, on August 27. The design of this year’s £10 charity T-shirts will reflect Bob McIntyre’s setting of the first 100mph TT lap during his Senior victory on a works Gilera four 60 years ago. All proceeds will…

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  • CCM’s stunning cafe racer at Llangollen Motorcycle Festival

    CCM’s stunning cafe racer at Llangollen Motorcycle Festival

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    Sam Hewitt

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    CCM will be showing off its stunning new café racer for the first time since its debut at the Goodwood Festival of Speed with an appearance at the Llangollen Motorcycle Festival over the weekend of August 5/6. Using the same DNA as the first two Spitfire and Scrambler variants, the café racer boasts a 600cc…

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  • Summer Classic Show winners

    Summer Classic Show winners

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    Sam Hewitt

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    With his 1934 500cc Norton M30 International, Andy Marks won the class for the best pre-1950 motorcycle at the South of England Summer Classic Bike Show & Bikejumble at the South of England Showground, Ardingly, West Sussex on Sunday, July 16, the runner-up being Steve Marks’ (1920 1300cc Henderson K). The best 1950-59 machine was…

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  • Farewell to Harry Pearce (1923-2017), first road race winner at Brands Hatch

    Farewell to Harry Pearce (1923-2017), first road race winner at Brands Hatch

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    Sam Hewitt

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    The funeral has taken place at Poole Crematorium of H A (Harry) Pearce, the very first motorcycle road race winner at Brands Hatch, who passed away peacefully aged 94, after a short illness. Originally from Surbiton, Surrey, he was a regular trials and scrambles competitor before taking up road racing in the Manx Grand Prix…

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  • Great to see George Pooley again

    Great to see George Pooley again

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    Sam Hewitt

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    After a long and complicated search to get in touch my old friend George Pooley, whose hand-built specials included a four-cylinder Trident called the Quadrant and a 1500cc Triumph six (two T160 triples joined together on a common crankcase to make a V6) we finally met up again – by chance and after 43 years…

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  • Memories kindled of a track King

    Memories kindled of a track King

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    Sam Hewitt

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    The accompanying photo and information were given to me by a friend, and I thought it might interest your readers. The rider is Dave Anderson, my friend’s late uncle, who was born around 1918/19 so was probably about 18 when the photo was taken. Standing next to him is his mentor and future brother-in-law Benny…

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  • Combined back sprocket and brake drum sought for 1920 AJS TT project

    Combined back sprocket and brake drum sought for 1920 AJS TT project

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    Sam Hewitt

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    I have an extremely rare and interesting project that’s been percolating for about 30 years, but was delayed because I was one of those involved in the resurrection of eight racing Velocettes amongst many others that were severely burned in the fire of September 16, 2003 at the National Motorcycle Museum. Despite my allegiance to…

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  • Wobbler Alan lives up to his name!

    Wobbler Alan lives up to his name!

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    Sam Hewitt

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    PART 2: Ted Bemand concludes his story about the Wirral Wobblers’ recent ‘invasion’ of Holland on their mopeds and autocycles. During our big Sunday run in the Netherlands, the narrow 4ft wide Tarmac dyke top strips were also being used by walkers, some with dogs, along with joggers, bike riders and other moped riders too…

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