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  • LlanBikeFest team back from 1000- mile Vietnam trail bike adventure

    LlanBikeFest team back from 1000- mile Vietnam trail bike adventure

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Ten organisers and supporters of the Llangollen Motorcycle Festival recently returned from a 1000-mile trail bike tour of Vietnam, where they helped some of that country’s poorest schools with gifts and cash donations. Most of the riders (seven from North Wales, two from England and a Canadian) were on Yamaha XTZ 125s – tough little…

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  • Early entry advised for Golden Era Run

    Early entry advised for Golden Era Run

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Early entry is advised for this year’s Golden Era Run being organised by the North East Section of the Vintage Motor Cycle Club at the Yorkshire Air Museum, Elvington, near York, on Sunday, July 30. Open to members of the VMCC, affiliated overseas clubs and the Sunbeam Motor Cycle Club only, the event is for…

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  • The day Fred Marsh’s V8 breezed in

    The day Fred Marsh’s V8 breezed in

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    Sam Hewitt

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    It was with great interest that I read the article about the Marsh MR4 in OBM (February). I was at the 1976 TT when I was fortunate enough to meet Fred Marsh. I’d pulled in beside the Hawthorn pub to watch the day’s racing when I heard the wonderful sound of what proved to be…

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  • Going for Gold

    Going for Gold

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    Sam Hewitt

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    The BSA Gold Star has been part of motorcycling folklore for the past eight decades, and at this year’s Carole Nash International Classic MotorCycle Show the ‘Goldie’ will be celebrated in the Restoration Theatre. Expert hints and tips on all things restoration and maintenance will be on offer once again at the Carole Nash-sponsored Stafford…

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  • You pays your money… and you takes your choice!

    You pays your money… and you takes your choice!

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    Sam Hewitt

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    FROM OUR ARCHIVES Pete Kelly rifles through Mortons’ Archives and turns up the following road test reports, from 1958 and 1960 respectively, which show how the motorcycle press of the day rated Royal Enfield’s 496cc Meteor Minor de Luxe parallel twin and 499cc Bullet single. Right, you’ve got the deposit together (or at least have…

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  • April 2017

    April 2017

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    Sam Hewitt

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    [su_note note_color=”#c0142b” text_color=”#ffffff”]Current issue: April 2017 – Next issue: May 2017 – On sale: May 6[/su_note] NEWS DIARY DATES BOOK REVIEWS FROM THE ARCHIVE LETTERS SUZUKI RES COLLECTION PROJECT 90 MADE IN JAPAN AT YOUR SERVICE READER’S TALE UNEARTHED FEEDBACK CLUB CALL CLASSIFIED A BIT ON THE SIDE SERVICES GUIDE    

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  • Top photographer Eric Kitchen will be star guest at Moidart Run

    Top photographer Eric Kitchen will be star guest at Moidart Run

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Legendary photographer and lifelong motorcyclist Eric Kitchen will be guest of honour at this year’s eighth Moidart Peninsula Road Run on Thursday, April 28. John McCrink, joint organiser of the run with Andrew Johnstone, said: “At a mere 84 years young, Eric is as fit, active and enthusiastic as ever and still enjoys covering events,…

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  • Pete’s Prattle

    Pete’s Prattle

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    Sam Hewitt

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    It was only three issues ago that John Surtees CBE, who sadly passed away on March 10, sent an email to Old Bike Mart that was duly published on our readers’ letters pages. It wasn’t about his seven motorcycling world championships, his six Isle of Man TT victories, or his 1967 Formula 1 world championship,…

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  • TSunbeam Club’s Pioneer Run sees over 300 centenarian machines taking part

    TSunbeam Club’s Pioneer Run sees over 300 centenarian machines taking part

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    Sam Hewitt

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    The Sunbeam Motor Cycle Club has taken lots of trouble lately to point out that, despite its name, it is an all-inclusive club for all makes and models, and that anybody with an interest in motorcycles is welcome. A look down the entry list of the 310 machines registered before the end of 1914 that…

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  • Wake up – and smell the leather!

    Wake up – and smell the leather!

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    Sam Hewitt

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    If a book ever deserved to be bound in soft, supple, deep black leather, then this is it! Open its pages and, just like the Jumanji board game in the 1995 film of the same title, all kinds of wonderful things fly out…the whiff of Castrol R, the sound of the juke box at the…

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