Category: Letters

I am a retired police officer and a rider since 1966. I was looking for a classic when I saw a BSA Thunderbolt advertised near Taunton. The ad said it was an ex-police bike and

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Hello again chaps, well, another project by the Flying Vicar! When the nasty virus popped its head up, I thought, I felt another project coming on. Having built a Bantam Wasp, a bicycle trike with

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While having a VE Day WhatsApp chat with my sister, we got around to dad’s wartime service as a despatch rider with the 8th Army. Like many ex-servicemen, my dad, Horace, never spoke of his

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Many thanks for putting in the article about Jack and June Taylor in the April issue of OBM, their daughter Jenny was made up. Reading your editorial in this month’s issue is a true reflection

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As you still seem to be publishing photos in support of the ‘First Bikes’ theme, I now attach my own, a 350cc Ariel ‘sloper’ of about 1932 vintage with hand gear change and acquired on

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Thanks for the great article on the art of the technical illustrators (April edition). These type of illustrations have fascinated me for as long as I can remember – from looking at my dad’s Blue

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Being a subscriber l know you often have chaps writing in to see if anyone can find their old bike. Well, in these days when you can’t get out on your bike l started to

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We eulogise about The Good Days, but were they really as good as we like to remember? In 1956 I was at a Cadwell Park race meeting with Charlie Freeman when, after the racing had

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Re OBM 418, page 28, Pete Kelly’s “Technical Illustrations”. See photos (above) of the “ingenious” twist-grip dip switch, as illustrated on page 28 of OBM 418 – this one is fitted to my recently acquired

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The mention of Durness (at the top left-hand corner of Scotland) in a page 16 photo caption of the April OBM edition reminded me of the journey we made to the top right-hand side of

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