Letters

In case someone didn’t already answer the request for the WD bike ID. It’s an Ariel W/NG.I enclosed a picture of my own. Ron Pier, Poole Not everyone identified the bike as an Ariel, although several readers did, such as Ron, and Ron Brunyee did also. Read more Letters, Opinion, News and Features at www.oldbikemart.co.uk…

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The June edition did an excellent write-up on horizontal-engined motorcycles, which have always been a favourite of mine. Form and function are brought together with a mechanical beauty, as well as the hidden bonus of shaft drive. To me, they’re the ideal sidecar machine. The later model Zundapp, in my attached photos, displays an Art…

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I was interested to read the “Hedge-dwelling Scott… where are UU” letter in the June edition, in particular the reference to the 1957 Adler MB250. I too am an enthusiast for these lovely little bikes. I have attached a picture of a Scott parked next to a water-cooled MB250 in the paddock at Oliver’s Mount…

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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 I saw the number was KAX, which was a Monmouthshire number, where I live. I remember the BSAs in our…

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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 an engine, and a 175 Bantam with sidecar and trailer, all of which you may have seen in previous editions…

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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 time as a DR, even when as a youth I was beginning a lifelong interest in motorcycles. I happened to…

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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 on my situation and many people like me at the moment. At 73, I do spend a lot of time…

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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 my 16th birthday in 1946, seen here with me wearing my Farnham Grammar school scarf! I stuck with Ariels for…

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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 ’uns and Green ’uns in the early ’50s, right through to buying my own magazines in my mid-late teens, and…

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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 sort out some old pics l had and came across the enclosed. It was taken at the Bottom of Barregarrow…

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