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  • Unlock Your Freedom: Take advantage of the benefits of commuting on two wheels!

    Unlock Your Freedom: Take advantage of the benefits of commuting on two wheels!

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Looking for an enjoyable and economical way to travel, especially during these troubling times? Commute on a scooter or motorcycle! The MCIA has launched a fantastic campaign – #UnlockYourFreedom – to urge the public to take advantage of all the benefits of riding on two wheels, including the ability to commute in isolation. Here are just…

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  • A Norton Navigator’s tale – the rescuer rescued

    A Norton Navigator’s tale – the rescuer rescued

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Les Orme tells how, many years after the event, he managed to return the favour to a Norton Navigator that had rescued him from a breakdown crisis in France. My motorcycling days started in 1959, at the age of 15, when friends Keith Pitcher, Pete Evans and I bought an old non-running rigid rear-end BSA…

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  • Chance to bag a proven Harley

    Chance to bag a proven Harley

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Although some folk say that it’s not possible, nor feasible – or even practical – to cover large mileages on a classic, vintage or veteran motorcycle, there are others who know that this is not the case… and then there are also those people who go out of their way to prove the exact opposite.…

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  • Get experienced from October 10

    Get experienced from October 10

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Good news for fans of Meriden and Hinckley machines, as the Triumph Factory Visitor Experience Exhibit, shop and café will be reopening on Saturday, October 10. The factory experience is far more than just the company’s own museum – which in itself is worthy of a visit, not least to see the bike that Johnny Allen…

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  • More on that influential Scott

    More on that influential Scott

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Regarding the letter in the June issue of OBM from Mr Wildsmith, I can inform him in some detail about the modified Scott he pictured. The bike was owned for over 50 years by a close friend of mine, and a true Scott enthusiast, Mr Arthur Fogg. Arthur bought the bike in the early 1950s…

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  • The memorable roar of megaphones

    The memorable roar of megaphones

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Reading Pete Kelly’s ‘Skimming Flatties’ feature, and his comments on Geoff Duke’s BMW’s small megaphone sound took me back to 1963/4. At that time I worked as a mechanic at Henleys, Star Inn in Oldham, at the main junction as you came off the Pennines in the centre of Oldham (there was no M62 then).…

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  • Jack Plowright continued

    Jack Plowright continued

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    Sam Hewitt

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    I have been an OBM subscriber for many years, but was taken aback to read ‘Jack Plowright Motorcycles’ in large print on your letters page in the June edition. I was born and grew up in Trowbridge and bought my first two bikes from Plowrights in Mill Street, so I was very interested to read…

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  • PREVIEW: September edition of Old Bike Mart

    PREVIEW: September edition of Old Bike Mart

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Welcome to Old Bike Mart, the subscription-only newspaper with the UK’s largest selection of classic motorcycle classified ads. This month’s OBM, as always is the case, features the latest news, reports from the racetrack, part and tool reviews and ‘how to’ guides. Newly discovered historic machines are revealed in all their unrestored glory and there’s…

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  • From unexpected funeral guests toparking ticket mayhem in Belfast

    From unexpected funeral guests toparking ticket mayhem in Belfast

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Ted Bemand concludes the report on his National Autocycle and Cyclemotor Club branch’s foray into Northern Ireland. Patrick McAlister became a wheelchair user following an accident in his teens, but that didn’t stop him enjoying life to the full. Sadly, at 44 he traded in his wheels for wings, and now (hopefully) flies with the…

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  • Remembering Jack Plowright

    Remembering Jack Plowright

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Jack was a gentleman, very ‘old school’. The motorcycle shop was the bigger of two in Trowbridge though I have no photographs of it. The lads used to go in there. I remember one ordering a Velocette Thruxton but it never materialised so he bought a 650SS instead which served him well. I used to…

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