Category: Letters

Neil Cairns’ article in the September edition, The Autumn of a 1946 BSA C11, brought back some happy memories because my first bike was also a C11 and had an interesting tale attached to its

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I am a subscriber to Real Classic magazine and do not usually get to see Old Bike Mart. However, recently a friend showed me an article from your August edition by Mick Payne about sidecars,

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I am probably the last person in the world to find out about this but, just in case there is one other person that is struggling, here is something I have recently found out regarding

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Regarding the letter in the June issue of OBM from Mr Wildsmith, I can inform him in some detail about the modified Scott he pictured. The bike was owned for over 50 years by a

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Reading Pete Kelly’s ‘Skimming Flatties’ feature, and his comments on Geoff Duke’s BMW’s small megaphone sound took me back to 1963/4. At that time I worked as a mechanic at Henleys, Star Inn in Oldham,

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I have been an OBM subscriber for many years, but was taken aback to read ‘Jack Plowright Motorcycles’ in large print on your letters page in the June edition. I was born and grew up

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Jack was a gentleman, very ‘old school’. The motorcycle shop was the bigger of two in Trowbridge though I have no photographs of it. The lads used to go in there. I remember one ordering

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Being unable to get out on my Velo recently, l was looking at some of the old negatives l have of the Sixties motor bike races. With the Classic TT/Manx Grand Prix now being announced

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Whilst reading your article ‘Images from the past’ in this month’s OBM, I was pleasantly surprised to see my dad’s old Velocette featured in one of the photos. I can hopefully shine some light on

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I thought your readers may be interested to see these pictures, taken 50 years ago, in August 1970. I graduated from teenage bicycle-rebuilding to the joys of motorcycle ownership when, at the age of 15,

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