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  • Norton Festival salutes Lancashire biker Phil – still burning up the roads at 85 years young

    Norton Festival salutes Lancashire biker Phil – still burning up the roads at 85 years young

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    Sam Hewitt

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    This year’s Norton Owners’ Club Festival included a 30-mile ride around the New Forest area before converging on the Sammy Miller Museum, where more than 200 bikes had gathered by noon on Saturday, July 2. Making a fabulous display, members’ machines were joined by Norton Rotary legend Brian Crighton with his CR 700P race bikes,…

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  • Hudspith steamer at Bike Life Classic Day

    Hudspith steamer at Bike Life Classic Day

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Almost 600 bikes visited the Sammy Miller Museum on Sunday, July 26 when Bike Life Classic, a non-profit group for the preservation of classic bikes organised by Anthony and Heidi Andrews, held its second annual meet there. The Stars Appeal for Salisbury District Hospital will benefit from the £2000 raised on the day. Read more…

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  • Bargain hunters set for annual Netley pilgrimage

    Bargain hunters set for annual Netley pilgrimage

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    Sam Hewitt

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    A treasure trove of motorcycle parts, pieces and spares will be taken to Netley Marsh on September 2/3 as the Carole Nash Eurojumble returns for a 23rd year. Enthusiasts from all across the United Kingdom and the continent will come in search of bargains as the autojumble opens its gates for the traditional Friday and…

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  • Three anniversaries in one for Colin Seeley

    Three anniversaries in one for Colin Seeley

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Former dealer, manufacturer and racer Colin Seeley will be celebrating three anniversaries in one – 60 years as a bike dealer, 50 as a manufacturer and 80 as a human being – when he gives a talk on his amazingly-varied career at the National Motorcycle Museum, Solihull, Birmingham, between 3 and 6pm on Thursday, August…

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  • Bidders aiming to land a rare Meteor at Netley auction

    Bidders aiming to land a rare Meteor at Netley auction

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    Sam Hewitt

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    A rare 1939 Vincent HRD Meteor, estimated to sell for more than £50,000, is one of the star motorcycles set for the Charterhouse Auction at the upcoming Carole Nash Eurojumble at Netley Marsh on Friday, September 2. This fascinating example has undergone a complete restoration, with additions such as TT racing handlebars, a TT petrol…

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  • A Norman Nippy at their feet!

    A Norman Nippy at their feet!

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    Sam Hewitt

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    With reference to Joey Dunlop’s memorial in Ballymoney (OBM July) my son and I were up at the Bungalow on the Isle of Man TT course in 2012 when we went off to answer a call of nature in the bushes and stumbled across a Norman Nippy moped! The attached photo shows my son Steve…

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  • Holding on for a hero

    Holding on for a hero

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Alan Turner tells of a very special reunion at Stafford when, thanks to Holland’s Ferry Brouwer, Des Heckle was reunited with his record-breaking 250cc Yamaha TD1C sprint bike of 46 years ago. While much was taking place at April’s Carole Nash Classic MotorCycle Show at Stafford, away from the crowds a very low-profile meeting finally…

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  • Inconspicuous, reliable and beautifully engineered – Steve’s electric-start solution for classic BSA twins

    Inconspicuous, reliable and beautifully engineered – Steve’s electric-start solution for classic BSA twins

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Electric starter? What electric starter? Pete Kelly visits Steve McFarlane, of SRM Engineering fame, in Cardiff to fully appreciate the huge amount of skill and dedication that went into his patented design for an electric starter for swinging-arm A7 and A10 BSA twins. Once Steve McFarlane had set his heart on manufacturing an electric-start mechanism…

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  • Dot Motorcycles – the end of an era at Ellesmere Street

    Dot Motorcycles – the end of an era at Ellesmere Street

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    Sam Hewitt

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    An association with Manchester spanning over 100 years will come to an end this September when Dot Motorcycles Ltd ceases trading from its 1912 premises in Ellesmere Street. We delve into Mortons’ Archive to give some idea of the surprising variety of road and sporting machinery – all quite Devoid of Trouble – that the…

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  • A Norman conquest

    A Norman conquest

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Piers Kurrein from Harrogate, who had a lovely Norman B2CS trials bike on show at The Girder Fork & Classic Motorcycle Club’s Big Bike Sunday at Skipton on June 26, tells OBM about its history and long restoration. While studying industrial design at Leeds Polytechnic in 1974, I discovered a Norman B2CS trials bike in…

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