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Memories of walls and balls
Thanks for a monthly very enjoyable read which included an article on the wall of death. A while ago, the Dorking Centre of the Velocette Owners’ Club invited a gent who had many years of experience of contact with the wall. He gave an interesting lecture with pictures of the action worldwide. His voice was…
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Where are you, Mary?
I wonder if you would kindly help, for one last time I promise, to track down Mrs Mary Smith. Mary got in touch with us at West Sussex BSA Owners Club several years ago asking if we could possibly assist or indeed take on the restoration of her BSA Bantam. I went to her home…
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Are you sitting comfortably?
I know you all like a good story, and I think you will like this one about my Uncle Sam’s Triumph T100 – that’s the same Uncle Sam whose Square 4 photos I sent in to OBM last year in the hope that I could be reunited with it. And I was successful! He and…
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EDITOR INtro
It was only a single day of being patient – in both senses of the word, being parked in a day ward awaiting surgery on my throttle hand’s damaged ligaments – but it was a day that resulted in a chance to catch up with some reading. Not of novels (although like many folk, I…
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Evocative images
I was given a number of card-mounted photographs by the nephew of the photographer, who was Colin Clark, of Wragby. When he died, apparently there were many of these pictures, so I do not know how many survived. To my mind, these are brilliant photos and really evocative of the time. I do not know…
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Cover cracker
What a cracking picture on the front of December’s OBM of Charlie Bruce. It looked a very purposeful bike and more than likely a one-off, and it looks like the engine is a cut-down KTT with home-brewed double knocker top and front forks home-brewed with top end front tube etc. Has anyone got any info…
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Get a grip on grips
Having trouble stabilising grips? Then follow this method. Get some double-sided sticky tape, 5/8in wide and about 1/8in thick – I’ve used masking tape on a brush stale in the picture to illustrate – and spiral it around the handlebar. Then liberally splash petrol on to the tape and to the inside of the new…
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Alpha Trials
Thank you for the article about Alpha Bearings. I was sorry to learn that Max Nightingale has died – a sad personal loss – but a relief that Alpha are still in business. My connection with Alpha goes back 40 years, when I purchased a DOT trials bike complete, less engine and gearbox. A friend…
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EDITOR INTRO
A short while ago, just after the clocks had turned and the nights really began to draw in, I received a press release which, essentially, told me to stash my riding gear in a cupboard under the stairs and put my bike away for winter. As it happens, the email in question was just explaining…
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New fuels, old bikes
I have recently read in the French press that our fuels are to be relabelled, but the list accompanying the article said that they will henceforth all have some degree of biofuel. The 95 and 98 unleaded petrols will now be E10 and E5, for instance, where I believe the ‘E’ still refers to ethanol,…
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