Letters – Old Bike Mart

Gearing up for a sidevalve

2nd October 2019 Nigel Devereux Letters

So Arthur Pentney (OBM Letters July) likes his Norton sidevalve solos but not his BSA M20 which was “somewhat heavy and ponderous and lacking cornering ability” – could this be because he was talking of

Cadwell pics parte the seventh

1st October 2019 Nigel Devereux Letters

When Colin’s nephew gave me this batch when we worked for a Lincoln company in the 1980s, he had a huge pile of the card-backed prints. I just wonder what happened to them all if

Hello…

29th September 2019 Nigel Devereux Letters

What a great cover photo on your July 2019 issue: London’s Metropolitan police officers on the Noddy Course. When the Met put hundreds of officers on two wheels in the late 1950s, many of them

Darlo dreams

28th September 2019 Nigel Devereux Letters

This picture (left) could have been taken in 1948 but was actually taken last month. It shows my 1951 BSA C11 next to Tornado, which was the first steam locomotive built in Britain for 50

No TARDIS? Carry on regardless!

28th September 2019 Nigel Devereux Letters

What a great paper OBM is. I look forward to its arrival on my doormat each month. It offers some wonderful insights into what we fringe motorcyclists love doing best: riding, tinkering and occasionally restoring:

Outside assistance

29th August 2019 Nigel Devereux Letters

Regarding the front page photograph of Jim Sandford’s tyre repair in the 1971 ISDT on the Isle of Man. First the people from left to right, on bike number 999, is Ken Heanes, my friend

An H1 meets its end

27th August 2019 Nigel Devereux Letters

I was very interested to read in the May issue of OBM,, Steve Cooper’s article on the remarkable emergency development of the Kawasaki H1 500cc triple. Readers may be interested to recall that at the

Is anything new?

24th August 2019 Nigel Devereux Letters

I was reading the letters in the latest OBM and something stirred when I read the letter titled ‘Nothing’s new’. Rummaging through my old motorcycle mags I came across the attached article. By modern standards

Duking it out with a Goldie

23rd August 2019 Nigel Devereux Letters

Following the Gold Star vs Thruxton article (June 2019 edition), and my brother (Chris Briston) visiting us last week from the USA, and the June ‘Where are they now?’ letter, I was prompted to write

Stand aid

21st August 2019 Nigel Devereux Letters

I’ve read in OBM, and other mags, plaintive messages from older riders who are selling bikes because of difficulty with machine weight, especially when lifting on to centre stands. One method suggested by Tony Groves