I am 76 and still building and riding motorcycles. The builds started at 15 when I left school and started work at the local garage. The very first bike was a round frame DOT scrambler. The
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I am the new owner of the Woolley Yamaha 50cc eight-speed. Apart from the information available on the Classic 50cc racing web page I have no other information. Would any of your readers have any
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I found this picture of my late uncle John Mcness whilst clearing his house. He sadly passed away on Good Friday of Covid-19 at the age of 93. I would be very grateful to you
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With reference to the letter from Rodney Wildsmith in June 2020’s OBM ‘Hedge-dwelling Scott… where are UU?’ Rodney also contacted the Scott Owners’ Club with the same inquiry and we were able to put together
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This may be of interest to you, the Morris Oxford van in the background of the picture of the Adler on page 16 of the September issue was owned by me from the early 1980s
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I too was also interested in the June article on flat twins. That must be a rare photo of the Lilac, I remember they also made a transverse V-twin like the Guzzi. IZH and Jawa
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I wanted to say how much I enjoyed the article in OBM about the wonderfully talented technical illustrators who graced the pages of the motorcycle and motoring press in pre-computer generated days. My particular favourite
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This is a photo I took at a park in Horsham, Sussex on Whit Monday, 1951 of grasstrack racing where the machines were towing surfboard riders. As I have never seen this activity either before
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This is a picture of my late mum and dad on their motorcycle – registration number EGX 724, taken in the early to mid Forties. I recently found it in a box of old photos,
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Thanks for publishing my piece and photos of horizontal-engined motorcycles in the August edition of OBM. The letter from George Simpson in Angus with the photo of a racerised water-cooled Adler MB250 taken back in
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