Sam Hewitt

Although the memories of Arthur Bourne, the legendary ‘Torrens’ of The Motor Cycle fame from 1928 until 1951, were written more than 40 years ago, only now have they finally been published – but it’s certainly been worth the wait, writes Pete Kelly. The one and only thing that Arthur Bourne and I had in…

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Pete Kelly looks back at some of the pint-sized Italian ‘cafe racers’ of the early 1960s With howling multi-cylinder machines and screaming two-strokes in a variety the world had never seen before, the mid-to-late 1950s and the whole of the 1960s will always be remembered as a golden age of motorcycle road racing. This was…

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More than 150 motorcycle enthusiasts gathered at the Beach Ballroom in Aberdeen on the last Tuesday in November, for the second in a series of yearly events aimed at bringing motorcycling legends to the north-east of Scotland, writes Gorgeous Biker Chick. Organiser Andy Freeman fell into arranging the events by accident. “I got to know…

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Stuart Dixon, who last year sent us a picture of his 350T Norton asking for information, has followed it up by showing the machine fully restored. His father came across the bike in Northern Ireland in 2015, and at first wasn’t sure if its specification was correct, but after some research on the web and…

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The Royal Corps of Signals’ White Helmets motorcycle display team, now based at Blandford, Dorset, can trace its origins back to 1927, when the first public displays of joint precision horsemanship and motorcycle riding were given by instructors and students from the Signal Training Centre in Yorkshire. In this 90th anniversary year of 2017, the…

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A special display of Greeves scramblers – one for each year of the firm’s existence – is being planned for the Telford Classic Dirt Bike Show, sponsored by Hagon Shocks, at the Telford International Centre over the weekend of February 18/19. In a world first, no fewer than 21 scramblers, from the first production run…

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