The latest in the ever-expanding range of Buyer’s Guides from Veloce, written by Chris Rooke (who has also written a restoration guide for the Brit triples, among others), as the title says, this is a
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Brooklands honours First World War motorcyclists
Celebrating the venue’s involvement during the 1914-18 conflict, Martin Gegg heads to the Brooklands Museum for their Great War Day The Brooklands Museum held a special centenary event on September 30, commemorating those with Brooklands
Read moreA date with Tiernan
As the days close in, and the clocks go back, periodicals of all types are inundated with press releases of calendars and diaries. Fortunately for us, the calendars that we get to see are far
Read moreNew Street Triumphs – Scrambler & Twin invigorated
Despite only being launched last year, Triumph’s Street Scrambler has proved incredibly popular, and the new model year sees a number of improvements and alterations to the bike that hark back to the halcyon days
Read moreFast Freddie beats the winter blues: GP racer to star at Newark Winter Classic bike show
Breaking the winter stalemate between the family-oriented festive period and the desire to get out and do the sort of stuff that we all really want to do, the Carole Nash Winter Classic at Newark
Read moreAlpha Bearings lives on!
While the most recent issue of OBM has a feature focussing on the powerplants created by West Midland’s bearing and crank specialists Alpha Bearings, there is a little faux pas in that the company are
Read moreThe Carole Nash Classic Motorcycle Mechanics Show
Having been kicked out of the town’s polytechnic after just a year of a mechanical engineering course, Dave Manning hangs his head in shame as he returns to Stafford, thirty years later. Early October is
Read moreAlpha Bearings, and the birth of the Centuri
Just a day after last month’s issue of OBM was printed, we heard that Alpha Bearings had been closed, after the sad loss of Max Nightingale in June – since he was sole director of
Read moreMoto Club Indianos Colombres Rally
The word is now definitely out on the classic world bush telegraph that the annual Moto Club Indianos Colombres Rally is the best in Spain and probably much of Europe, and Ian Kerr MBE wholeheartedly
Read moreAppointment only exemption!
A rare opportunity was given to members of local bike clubs in the Portsmouth area last month (September) when Ray Waller, co-owner of the Comet Classics Showroom, near Emsworth, Hampshire, invited them to view his
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