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Your October 2018 edition shows a picture of Birmingham Club members at Rose Hill. Rose Hill is an iconic location in motoring and motorcycling history, and is part of the Lickey Hills area situated just south of Birmingham. Your former editor, who has moved on to railway circles, would recognise Lickey as in the nearby…

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Looking at the photos in OBM of riders taken before the advent of the “rocker generation” (mine) the one common denominator is TIES! All the riders of the generation before us are almost always wearing a collar and tie. Readers may be interested in the attached photo of a hill climb on the outskirts of…

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As usual, the story in the September issue of OBM of Peter Gray’s Sunbeam S8 prompted me to dig out this old photo of my S7 with a Monza sidecar. I had it around 1967, and the pic is taken in Sulby Glen parking area in the Isle of Man. The three nice girls are,…

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OBM published my account of my introduction to motorcycling in June. Now I’ve found the bike my dad went to war on, or one very like it, thanks to OBM. A military Triumph 3HW was posted for sale in the August edition. I discussed it with the seller who was clearly a genuine enthusiast with…

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You know how it is – you agonise about acquiring a ‘new’ bike (in my case a 1973 Triumph Adventurer TR5T) and eventually succumb and push the ‘Buy it Now’ (or whatever) button, convincing yourself: “That is it; no more. I’ve got everything I’d ever need/desire/covet,” and…the very next day there’s another ‘must have’ morsel…

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Recently I travelled from the north east to Lancashire to visit my cousin, Laura Yates, who is not in the best of health, and during the visit her daughter got some old photos out. Among the photos was one of her late husband on a motorcycle and, like myself, he was a keen motorcyclist. Anyway,…

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I read with interest, in OBM recently, the excellent article about the Moto Guzzi museum in Mandello del Lario on Lake Como. I have been a keen admirer of the Guzzi motorcycles since the ’50s, especially the racing machines that had many original features that appealed to me. My first motorcycle was a Moto Guzzi…

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I read with interest the article by Ian Kerr on page 37 of the August OBM and would like to add to it. Michel Lucani, the owner of ‘Musee de la Moto Entrevaux’, in the ‘good old days’ when old motorcycles were two a penny, was following a lorry which was heading for the rubbish…

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My son found an old photograph album and in it were the enclosed photos of people on motorbikes. I wonder if the readers can identify the makes of the bikes and where the letter ‘A’ registrations area was? Ted, Sunny Scarborough The accompanying newspaper clipping, marked as being from 1907 (which, to my eye, seems…

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