Sam Hewitt

French fancies – and a gorgeous Belgian Lady!

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Sam Hewitt

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5th July 2018

Ian Kerr MBE reports on another wonderful Tour du Calvados for pre-1965 classic motorcycles in Normandy, where reminders of the D-Day landings are all around, and in which great bikes, great company and great riding are always assured. If you need an example of a club that puts on events that not only attract local…
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If this jam-packed motorcycle museum doesn’t make you smile, see a doctor!

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Sam Hewitt

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5th July 2018

Nigel Stennett-Cox visits a motorcycle museum whose exhibits are crammed into old railway buildings in North Norfolk. If you appreciate the quirky and different, you’ll love a visit to the Norfolk Motorcycle Museum, for I cannot conceive of another such establishment being quite like it – certainly nowhere else than such a remote and rural…
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Fuel for thought…

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Sam Hewitt

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5th July 2018

Many of us have known that there are various problems that can occur when running a classic vehicle on modern fuel. Dave Manning looks for the facts behind the rumours. When crude oil was first being refined to create kerosene for lamps, back in the 19th century, petroleum was something of a by-product with no…
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A tale of two Golden Arrows

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Sam Hewitt

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5th July 2018

Colin Rider tells the story of two identical Ariel Golden Arrows that were bought simultaneously by brothers Derek and Randal Jessop after trading in the BSA Shooting Star that they had shared You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours, so the saying goes, and never was this more apparent than between my lifelong friend…
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Honda spreads its ‘wings’

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Sam Hewitt

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5th July 2018

Steve Cooper looks into the origins and development of the bike that spawned a new genre It’s genuinely debatable as to whether any other motorcycle has polarised riders quite as much as Honda’s Goldwing. Perceived by many at its launch as a wholly unnecessary answer to a question that no one had ever, ever, asked…
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‘Arrow’ hybrid identified

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Sam Hewitt

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3rd July 2018

In response to Malcolm Ranieri’s photos of the four-cylinder two-stroke hybrid in Readers’ Letters (May), I’m pretty sure it’s the same bike that called in a couple of years ago at Fosse Garage, near Harbury, where I work. The owner, who arrived in a small group of fellow riders, said the engine had a Suzuki…
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TURN RIGHT AT THE MANX ARMS! Those old-time glass-plate TTs – on Clypse and Mountain circuits alike

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Sam Hewitt

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3rd July 2018

The Mortons Archive contains a precious collection of glass-plate photographic images from the Isle of Man TT races going back to the 1920s, and this June issue seemed the most appropriate in which to show them. All appeared in a book entitled Classic Images, Isle of Man TT Races, with captions by Richard Rosenthal, that…
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‘Baby boomers’ and motorbikes

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Sam Hewitt

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3rd July 2018

Peter Morley brings a heartwarming story about his late dad’s determination to return to a decent civilian life after the war, and the motorcycles that helped him to do it. Motorbikes first came into my life in the early 1950s when my dad bought a 175cc Excelsior to get to and from his first proper…
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Velocette Mk1 OHC

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Sam Hewitt

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30th June 2018

Jim Plant waxes lyrical about his favourite Velo and says everybody should have one. Was it all downhill after 1931? If you are a dedicated Velo man, or woman, you probably don’t realise that your life is not complete if you have not yet owned, or at least had a decent ride on, a Mark…
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Punctures galore, ‘Queen Mary’ escorts and a lasting passion for restoring bikes

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Sam Hewitt

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30th June 2018

Still passionate about bikes at 97, Frank Authers concludes his story about a remarkable motorcycling life. By 1944, by which time the war was progressing favourably for the Allies, I was in 249 Spitfire Squadron based on the Adriatic coast of Italy as part of the Balkan Air Force. The MT section had a squadron…
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