Sam Hewitt

Pete’s Prattle

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Sam Hewitt

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8th May 2018

The Cambridge English Dictionary defines the condition of ‘writer’s block’ as “being unable to create a piece of written work because something in your mind prevents you from doing it” – and this affliction can be a particular nuisance when you have to prattle on about something every month, especially when you’ve already got 49…
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May 2018

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Sam Hewitt

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8th May 2018

NEWS DIARY DATES FROM OUR ARCHIVES LETTERS READERS’ TALES MADE IN JAPAN VINTAGE RESTORATION UNEARTHED FEEDBACK MOTORCYCLES IN MY LIFE A BIT ON THE SIDE CLASSIFIED SERVICES GUIDE CLUB CALL The June issue of OBM will be on sale on Saturday, June 2 – order your copy now!
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A Vintage Training Day

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Sam Hewitt

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3rd May 2018

Dave Manning heads to deepest Staffordshire to find a collection of vintage machinery that is begging to be ridden. While the very fact that you’re reading Old Bike Mart shows that you probably have an interest in motorcycles of a certain age, it doesn’t necessarily follow that each and every reader owns a large and…
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Torrens Trophy awarded to World Superbike Champion Jonathan Rea

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Sam Hewitt

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3rd May 2018

Northern Ireland’s Jonathan Rea MBE was awarded the Royal Automobile Club’s Torrens Trophy on Thursday, March 29 – the day our April issue went to press – at the Pall Mall Clubhouse for being the first rider to win three consecutive World Superbike Championships. For Rea, it was only the latest in a string of…
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What a pair of beauties!

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Sam Hewitt

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3rd May 2018

By courtesy of the Sammy Miller Museum, visitors to the Vintage Motor Cycle Club’s Festival of 1000 Bikes at Mallory Park on July 7-8 will thrill to the sounds of two of the most exotic racing motorcycles ever built – the five-speed 498cc Moto Guzzi V8 and the four-speed 500cc double-overhead-camshaft Gilera as raced by…
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From our Archive: The Rising of the Rising Sun

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Sam Hewitt

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3rd May 2018

Dave Manning looks back to the very first days when ‘Honda’ became a familiar word, and the enthusiasm with which the weekly motorcycle press welcomed Japan’s engineering excellence. When Soichiro Honda claimed, in 1954, that the Honda Motor Company was “bigger than Japan”, many thought his words to be an idle boast that was simply…
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Water in the works!

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Sam Hewitt

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1st May 2018

Martin Hamer looks back fondly on a wet Scottish Highland tour with a dear friend on a misfiring 500cc Honda four, thanks to water in the works. Reading the November 2017 issue of Old Bike Mart, and in particular Lindsey Norris’s article relating to the challenges he faced with his Honda 400/4 when travelling to…
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BMW Airhead Fellowship plans its most ambitious event so far

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Sam Hewitt

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1st May 2018

The BMW Airhead Fellowship, a non-profit-making organisation run by Peter Ardron and dedicated to keeping as many air-cooled ‘R’-series BMWs as possible on the road, is planning an ambitious event at the Lincolnshire Showground in aid of the Lincolnshire & Nottinghamshire Air Ambulance from July 13-15. Unique in the history of the BMW vintage and…
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A Holmes-spun Triumph…

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Sam Hewitt

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1st May 2018

Recalling being blown into the weeds by a sharp-sounding and decidedly rapid JH Special Triumph Tiger Cub, John McCrink visits the man who created it and marvels at his home-brewed craftsmanship. About 10 years ago, while taking part in one of Pete Remington’s excellent Nostalgia Road Runs in the Lake District, I was riding out…
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We admired the Honda CB750, shook our heads and said this was the end – how right we were!

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Sam Hewitt

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1st May 2018

Gold-plated Daimlers – but belt-driven lathes still tried to produce precision motorcycle engine parts Former Umberslade employee John Cart adds to the revelations already published by OBM about this former BSA Group research facility as he tells what life was like there and remembers the best three years of his life Over the past few…
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