Sam Hewitt

Recently I travelled from the north east to Lancashire to visit my cousin, Laura Yates, who is not in the best of health, and during the visit her daughter got some old photos out. Among the photos was one of her late husband on a motorcycle and, like myself, he was a keen motorcyclist. Anyway,…

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I read with interest, in OBM recently, the excellent article about the Moto Guzzi museum in Mandello del Lario on Lake Como. I have been a keen admirer of the Guzzi motorcycles since the ’50s, especially the racing machines that had many original features that appealed to me. My first motorcycle was a Moto Guzzi…

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I read with interest the article by Ian Kerr on page 37 of the August OBM and would like to add to it. Michel Lucani, the owner of ‘Musee de la Moto Entrevaux’, in the ‘good old days’ when old motorcycles were two a penny, was following a lorry which was heading for the rubbish…

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My son found an old photograph album and in it were the enclosed photos of people on motorbikes. I wonder if the readers can identify the makes of the bikes and where the letter ‘A’ registrations area was? Ted, Sunny Scarborough The accompanying newspaper clipping, marked as being from 1907 (which, to my eye, seems…

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The bike requiring an ID on page 20 (OBM Readers’ Letters, September), featuring the parents of Hugh MacKenzie, is a 1926 Triumph Model Q. The Model Q was the up-market Model P, with additional nickel plating and polished carb, crankcase and gearbox, plus an aluminium piston instead of the cast-iron piston of the standard Model…

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I read with interest Arthur Pentney’s letter (OBM September). There is no doubt that there are changing attitudes towards old bikes on our roads. One in particular concerning riders of two stroke machines. I am finding that the smoke trail left by my Greeves is causing annoyance to other drivers. Last year I was subjected…

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