Sam Hewitt

Meet Carrot Cycles – Lincoln’s ‘can do’ team

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Sam Hewitt

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1st May 2018

During a visit to Carrot Cycles of Lincoln, Dave Manning is amazed by the sheer range of motorcycle components the team is able to produce, replicate or improve for the classic or vintage enthusiast. If you’re a regular show attendee, you might remember seeing the Carrot Cycles stand at places like the Stafford Show, complete…
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TRUE GRIT!: Shortened 79th Pioneer Run braves ‘Mini Beast from East’

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Sam Hewitt

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28th April 2018

Despite snow on the ground and a bitterly cold wind, the Sunbeam Motor Cycle Club’s classic season-opener on Sunday, March 18 brought determination by the bucketload, writes Ian Kerr. Although amber weather warnings about the ‘Mini Beast from the East’ threatened cancellation of this year’s 79th Pioneer Run on Sunday, March 18, after careful consideration…
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BSA C10 that taught me everything

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Sam Hewitt

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28th April 2018

Bernie Freeman looks back fondly at the 250cc side-valve single that was the first love of his motorcycling life. I knew I wanted a motorbike from the age of 13, when I saw one ‘tonning it’ along London’s North Circular Road, so as soon as I started work as a trainee fitter/welder I started saving.…
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Getting the wind up – with a bit of dry Cornish humour!

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Sam Hewitt

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28th April 2018

Colyn Thomas fondly remembers the comings and goings around an old Cornish garage beside the A38 where he and his motorcycling friends met up in the mid-1950s. Remember the Good Old Days, with rickety old motorcycles and sidecars crammed with kids, shopping, the dog and the wife’s handbag, and the wife perched behind the rider,…
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It never rains but it pours!

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Sam Hewitt

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28th April 2018

Keith Carter from Wiltshire recalls his own experiences of rainy days and broken-down motorcycles. With a nod to Martin Hamer’s tale of his wet and windy Scottish adventure (OBM March, see also page 49 this issue) my take on touring Scotland was somewhat different, leading up to the cop-out decisions I took after several wet-weather…
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Birth of the Bonnie

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Sam Hewitt

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28th April 2018

Dave Manning tells the story of the Triumph legend, forged on the Bonneville Salt Flats, that became a byword for mile-gobbling performance after production began in September 1958. Sixty years ago the Triumph Bonneville, a motorcycle that would become an icon of its time, first came off the production line in September 1958. The inspired…
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Adventure on a budget – with Royal Enfield’s new Himalayan

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Sam Hewitt

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28th April 2018

Dave Manning gets the chance to sample Royal Enfield’s long-awaited Himalayan adventure bike around the decidedly non-mountainous territory of Louth, Lincolnshire. Given that the Royal Enfield factories in Chennai – all three of them – have been churning out a rather limited range of machinery for so long, when it was announced that a new…
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Francis-Barnett ‘trail bike’ pre-dated them all!

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Sam Hewitt

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25th April 2018

After reading the Greeves article in OBM (February), I wonder how readers would classify the Francis-Barnett Overseas Falcon 65? Based on the Falcon 58 road model, it incorporated parts from trials and scrambles machines to cater for markets where a machine was needed for operation under cross-country conditions. I know of only two of these…
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Remember the TWN Cornets?

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Sam Hewitt

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25th April 2018

Though my passion is for German motorcycles, especially those makes that were available in the UK, I am putting together a register of TWN Cornets and would be grateful if past and present owners could pass on any history, memories or information about the Cornets they might once have owned or still own. The TWN…
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They weren’t called Green Elephants for nothing…

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Sam Hewitt

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25th April 2018

While agreeing with Bernie, of the Adler to Zundapp Club, about the weight of the Zundapp flat twin pictured in readers’ letters in OBM (February) it wasn’t called the Green Elephant without a reason. Capable of 85mph in their normal sidecar-lugging guise, these machines powered the fastest outfits of the 1950s, and in such use…
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