Hello again, France calling! I saw this contraption in Marciac in south-west France yesterday.
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Stopping a Comet
This could be useful to readers who, like me, own a James Comet or one of its many guises from the early Fifties.
Read moreFurther Cadwell action
Rather than have these Colin Clark pictures just stored away, I am sending another set for inclusion in OBM.
Read moreTwo strokes, for a big cat
I’ve just received my March copy of Old Bike Mart, and was delighted to see the Panther two-stroke photo on the front page. For your information I thought I’d let you know that the Panther
Read moreTriBSA Memories
How nice to see a couple of pages devoted to my old TriBSA scrambles bike which I built in 2003/2004. My good friend, Garry Bowden, in Patchway, built a new oil bearing frame including new
Read moreCharlie’s competition
In the current issue of OBM, you have published a super first part article on Charlie Bruce and it has jolted me to put pen to paper, giving some further background to Charlie’s early career
Read moreTake me to your Leader
I very much enjoyed the article on the Ariel Leader and the various letters. Enclosed is something readers may enjoy. After 52,000 miles on the Leader, I have many tales to tell but will hold
Read moreGreenock hoodlums?
John Dalton, a Tiger Cub owner on the Isle of Man, sends me the attached pic from 1964 wondering if the Cub (554 UPO?) in the foreground might have survived. Apart from that, I thought
Read more116 years young
The photo attached is courtesy of Sunbeam stalwart Geoff Morris, and it shows Edwin Cook with his 1903 BSA motorcycle fitted with a 2HP Minerva engine. The machine is now in Geoff Morris’s ownership, and
Read moreAt the pub gate?
An interesting article in your last issue – the photo on page 23 caught my eye. In the picture at the cottage gate, I noticed there was a shovel above the lady’s head.Could this perhaps be
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