Sam Hewitt

1938 Comet makes £34,000 as ‘Beast from East’ fails to deter Yorkshire classic bike auction bids

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Sam Hewitt

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11th April 2018

Despite the worst snow conditions for many years, all but three of the 50 machines entered for a Classic Motorcycle Auction conducted by Dee Atkinson & Harrison at Yorkshire’s Sledmere House on March 3 duly turned up for sale – and the attendance by hardy northerners was well supplemented by internet bidding from the rest…
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Sammy Miller Museum buys historic race bike trio from Northern Ireland

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Sam Hewitt

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11th April 2018

The Sammy Miller Museum has been very fortunate to purchase three important racing motorcycles from Jim Lilley in Lisburn, Northern Ireland. They comprise the ex-works Honda NS500 on which Freddie Spencer won numerous GP races in 1982/3, the Suzuki RG500 Mk IV on which Barry Sheene won two world championships, and an ex-works 1959…
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Star billing at Stafford for top road racer and ex-Honda team boss Neil Tuxworth

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Sam Hewitt

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11th April 2018

Racing legend and ‘king-maker’ Neil Tuxworth has been confirmed as the guest of honour at the 38th Carole Nash International Classic MotorCycle Show at the Stafford County Showground on Saturday and Sunday, April 21-22. From his first track outing at Cadwell Park, Lincolnshire aboard a tuned BSA Bantam to victories and podium places in British…
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Sunbeam MCC’s Rose of the Shires Run reflects 2200-mile Triumph marathon of 107 years ago

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Sam Hewitt

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11th April 2018

Back in 1911, Mr Albert E Catt took his 3½ hp Triumph on an endurance ride that totalled 2200 miles in six days, averaging more than 400 miles per day at an average speed of 23mph – and the Sunbeam Motor Cycle Club will be celebrating his amazing achievement in the Rose of the Shires…
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Lansdowne Classic Series celebrates 20th racing season with new image

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Sam Hewitt

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11th April 2018

With a bright new logo and a complete update of its www.lansdowneclassicseries.co.uk website, the Lansdowne Classic Series will be celebrating its 20th year of top road racing in style. The 2018 season will consist of seven Championship rounds with the Classic Racing Motorcycle Club, British Motor Cycle Racing Club, North Glos Racing, Endurance Legends and…
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Wartime antics at Crich Tramway Village

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Sam Hewitt

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11th April 2018

Those who enjoyed a ride-out to the Crich Tramway Village near Matlock, Derbyshire, over Easter found themselves in a realistic wartime situation with identity card checks, air-raid warnings and the sounds of low-flying aircraft as the museum staged its WWII/1940s Era Weekend. As vintage trams rumbled by, historic road and military vehicles both static and…
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How I fell for those useless bike gadgets

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Sam Hewitt

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11th April 2018

In response to ‘Pete’s Prattle’ about useless accessories (OBM February), many readers out there must recall the many gadgets that were offered temptingly in the motorcycling magazines of the 1950s. I fell for most of them, and found that they all had faults. Way back in 1956, after buying a 125cc James ML ex-paratrooper machine…
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When the good trail times rolled for Kawasaki

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Sam Hewitt

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11th April 2018

Steve Cooper unravels the complex history of Kawasaki’s trail bike models When it comes to trail bikes, Kawasaki never figured largely in the UK until the likes of the KDX and KMX 125/200s of the late 1980s and early 90s arrived. Sure, we’d had the KL250 in the late 1970s, but it was never Kawasaki’s…
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Pete’s Prattle

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Sam Hewitt

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11th April 2018

Reader Colyn Thomas’s atmospheric recollections of the comings and goings at the petrol pumps at Castle Garage, on the A38 at Trebrown Bridge in Cornwall, and this month’s cover shot of two BSA C15 Sportsman riders at North Bar Garage in Banbury, a control point in the 1966 National Rally, got my memory buds going.…
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April 2018

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Sam Hewitt

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6th April 2018

Old Bike Mart offers the UK’s largest selection of classic motorcycle classifieds. It features news, racing reports, reviews and newly discovered historic machines plus hundreds of ads to browse. DIARY DATES READERS’ LETTERS STAFFORD CLASSIC BIKE SHOW TALMAG TRIAL IT’S MY BIKE TALKING JAPANESE READERS’ TALES UNEARTHED FEEDBACK A BIT ON THE SIDE CLASSIFIED OBM…
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