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Category: Features
Salon Privé
While the world of ultra-expensive cars costing more than the gross domestic product of a small nation is well out of the remit of the average OBM reader, it does seem that the high class
Read moreMotorcycles – the end of an era at Ellesmere Street
An association with Manchester spanning over 100 years will come to an end this September when Dot Motorcycles Ltd ceases trading from its 1912 premises in Ellesmere Street. We delve into Mortons’ Archive to give
Read moreAt your service: Fastenings firm that’s holding together well
Mick Payne brings some sound advice about keeping your bike in one piece as he revisits stainless steel nut and bolt manufacturer D Middleton & Son. Until I retired, I worked as an engineering designer,
Read moreA Norton Navigator’s tale – the rescuer rescued
Les Orme tells how, many years after the event, he managed to return the favour to a Norton Navigator that had rescued him from a breakdown crisis in France. My motorcycling days started in 1959,
Read moreFrom unexpected funeral guests toparking ticket mayhem in Belfast
Ted Bemand concludes the report on his National Autocycle and Cyclemotor Club branch’s foray into Northern Ireland. Patrick McAlister became a wheelchair user following an accident in his teens, but that didn’t stop him enjoying
Read moreNever built – the 500cc V-twin Morini sports that everyone really wanted
With quality, performance and excellent design apparent in every detail, the 350cc Morini V-twins bore comparison with any Japanese motorcycle – but when the Italian firm upped the capacity to 500cc, it never quite managed
Read moreAnother brilliant Banbury Run – and it’sstill the biggest and best in the world!
Almost 500 riders took part in the Vintage Motor Cycle Club’s 68th Banbury Run, open only to VMCC members on pre-1931 machines, on Sunday, June 19 – down a little on the 600 or so
Read moreThe long-running Watsonian Palma range
Mick Payne looks back at the long history of the Watsonian Squire Palma range of sidecars, which were innovative at the time of their introduction and remain available to this day. I mentioned last time
Read moreTesting, testing! How the bike journos of old saw the Squariels
The uncanny flexibility of the Ariel Square Fours, from the 497cc and 597cc ‘cammies’ to the final pushrod-operated 997cc Mk. 2, always amazed those fortunate enough to road test these four-pot classics, as these excerpts
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