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,
Read moreThe memorable roar of megaphones
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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,
Read moreI 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
Read moreJack 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
Read moreBeing 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
Read moreWhilst 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
Read moreI 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,
Read moreHunting through my study in the search for an item I never found, I came across this photograph (right). In the 1980s I was a founder member of the motorcycle section of Bedfordshire Police Sports &
Read moreIn reply to Jamie Allium’s letter in OBM May 2020 regarding Chic Parr. In my late teens and back in the late ’60s, I bought a battered old Velocette MAC GPP 201, which had had
Read moreFurther to the letter from Tony Colman about his Kawasaki Z200 in issue 420. His letter was a reminder of my own experience. I have, over the years, had an eclectic mix of bikes, starting
Read moreThis may be a useful company to mention, who I dealt with a week ago. Finding a disappointing leak on my Honda VT 500 petrol tank (June issue) which could be soldered, I searched the
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