Sam Hewitt

world’s biggest classic motorcycle publisher, Mortons Media Group, unleashes new website and app

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Sam Hewitt

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8th May 2020

That’s right, classic bike fans – we’ve been busy during lockdown and May 8 will see the launch of the Classic Bike Hub.
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Can you help find this wedding BSA Shooting Star?

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Sam Hewitt

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7th May 2020

Classic Bike Guide reader John King is trying to track down his old BSA for a romantic reunification. Could you help him? John writes: “I’m hoping for readers’ help. In 1960, I bought a BSA A7 Shooting Star and later that year my fiancé and I were married, on July 23, 1960, in Chester. Following the…
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Can you help find this wedding BSA Shooting Star?

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Sam Hewitt

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7th May 2020

Classic Bike Guide reader John King is trying to track down his old BSA for a romantic reunification. Could you help him? John writes: “I’m hoping for readers’ help. In 1960, I bought a BSA A7 Shooting Star and later that year my fiancé and I were married, on July 23, 1960, in Chester. Following the…
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From the archive: Made in Japan – Laverda 500: the twin that came oh, so close

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Sam Hewitt

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7th May 2020

’Ullo, ’ullo! What’s an Italian motorcycle doing on Steve Cooper’s Japanese pages? It’s all about comparisons and giving praise where it’s due, that’s what – and something the more extreme ‘Jap knockers’ might consider reciprocating once in a while? Classic motorcycles from Italy tend to polarise opinion perhaps more widely than just about any other…
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Classic Community Champions

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Sam Hewitt

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6th May 2020

In a bid to spread some cheer and find silver linings at an otherwise dark time, Footman James, the classic vehicle insurance firm, has announced an initiative, celebrating the people up and down the country who are heroes to their classic bike community. Many aspects of the highly sociable classic bike scene are run by…
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Surfing for new book titles?

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Sam Hewitt

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4th May 2020

With Mortons Media – the publisher not only of Old Bike Mart, but several other classic motorcycle titles such as Classic Racer, The Classic MotorCycle, Classic Dirt Bike and Classic Bike Guide – adding book prints to its regular fare of periodicals, it seems sense to give you some directions as to where to find…
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The name’s Three. Rocket Three.

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Sam Hewitt

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2nd May 2020

The fact that a BSA Rocket III will be under the hammer at the Charterhouse auction in May isn’t anything out of the ordinary, but for the fact that this is a three-cylinder Beeza with some interesting history. Back when the Bond film, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, was being filmed, actor George Lazenby (probably…
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Captain was the first

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Sam Hewitt

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30th April 2020

When I opened my February edition of Old Bike Mart I found a series of articles on readers’ first bikes – hmm, I thought, maybe its nostalgia time to look at the photos of my first bike… On turning the pages I found a four page article on James Captain bikes, so out came the…
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From the archive: Take five – whichever suits your style

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Sam Hewitt

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30th April 2020

Before Royal Enfield’s sensationally-styled Continental GT made its debut, the 250cc Crusader line had already evolved into two variations on a very agreeable five-speed theme – the leading link front fork Super 5 and the sporty-looking Continental. This is how the road testers of the day saw them. When Royal Enfield launched the unit-construction 250cc…
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A bike club’s loss

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Sam Hewitt

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28th April 2020

Having just got married in 1969, my new wife Rosemary and I joined Warrington Motorcycle Club which met at Martins Croft, to the east of Warrington. We enjoyed a number of runs out and camping trips. Many of the friends we met back then are still friends to this day, and some of the members…
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