Sam Hewitt
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The Golden Era Run 2019
On Sunday, July 28, the North East Section of the VMCC will once again hold its Golden Era Run, now a firmly established annual event for motorcycles and three-wheelers made before January 1931. This friendly, non-competitive event offers opportunities to ride in good company over carefully chosen quiet roads in the beautiful Vale of York.…
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Join the festival
A swift reminder for those of you who like to ride their classic machinery on classic race tracks that this year’s Festival of 1000 Bikes at Mallory Park is taking entries for the July 12-14 event. The venue’s organisers are setting the Mallory track out in its pure classic form, without the chicanes that have…
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Stafford marks the ‘ton’
This year’s Carole Nash International Classic MotorCycle Show, the 39th iteration of the Spring Stafford extravaganza, will celebrate 100 years of racing on the Isle of Man. Clearly, it’s not a century since racing on Mona’s Isle first started as, of course, that was celebrated back in 2007, but there have been 100 years in…
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Editorial
Since taking over from Pete Kelly esq at the helm of the good ship OBM, I’ve been fascinated by the directness of the connection that the publication has with its readers, and how so many of you wonderful folk keep in regular contact. Whether it be by letter, email, telephone, semaphore or carrier pigeon, it’s…
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March 2019
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Charlie Bruce
Following on from the December OBM cover photo showing Charlie Bruce on his Velocette at Scarborough in September 1959, and the subsequent letter from Brian Moorcroft, Ben Waters provides us with some more information on this most interesting rider, his machines and the part he played in the Scottish motorcycle racing scene. Charlie Bruce was…
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Ariel four-stroke legends that succumbed to the Leader
The decision to halt production of the entire range of Ariel four-strokes, in the wake of the Leader and Arrow two-stroke twins, brought a sudden void for many enthusiasts. Pete Kelly looks at some of the favourites that were suddenly no more. Last month we told how the massive investment required for the launch of…
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Yamaha YDS5E
Steve Cooper looks at an intermediary Yamaha model that cemented their fine 2T reputation. The earliest YDS1 had been based around the German Adler MD250, and the subsequent YDS2 embraced a raft of oversights, omissions and lessons learnt from that first machine. Persevering with the basic design, the next in the series, the YDS3, found…
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Watsonian sidecars
Mick Payne takes a look at the long-lived Gloucestershire brand. Last time I compiled a set of features on Britain’s sidecar manufacturers, there were more than twice the number there are now. Watsonian was strong then and is, if anything, even stronger now – indeed, it has been around since the dawn of motorcycling! It…
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Dragon Rally 2019
As a veteran of the event, Tom Davidson heads into deepest Snowdonia for the Conway Motorcycle Club’s annual shindig. On the second weekend of February every year, for the past fifteen years, my brother and I have finished work on the Friday, then had a mad dash through the cold, dark night to cover the…
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