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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Category: Letters
Twist grip dip
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
Read moreCamping holiday capers
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
Read moreRGS origins?
Back in the ’60s Tony Dunnell’s pride and joy was a BSA Shooting Star but unfortunately he crashed it. The front end was pretty well wrecked but Tony acquired a complete front end from a
Read moreTwo wheels never go away
Here are three photos which might be of interest to Old Bike Mart readers – the first two of which are my father in 1921 with his Rudge Multi, and a photo of it on
Read moreWas Chic Parr a tuner?
I am asking the knowledgeable readers of OBM if anybody has any info on a motorcycle shop in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire owned by Chic Parr? My Google searches have resulted in zero! As a youth
Read moreBullet – back from the dead and off to Ascot!
It’s not exactly my first bike, nor my last, but one of my early mounts – a 1951 Royal Oilfield 350 Bullet before and after a big “coming off”. I received £100 and the scrap
Read moreLong term New Imp
I like the ‘My first bike’ articles, it is very interesting to read about readers’ bikes and how they ran them on a shoestring. Here is a photo of my New Imperial Model 30 which
Read moreBarn found, and barn maintained!
Like many of my generation in the early days after the war I, Colyn (yes, that is the Cornish spelling) grew up with various motorcycles – an ex-War Department 125cc James and the D1 BSA
Read moreTriumph 2/1 just keeps going
BKX 197 came to my family in 1959, when my grandmother paid £10 for it so that my brother could come home on weekend passes from RAF Yatesbury in Wiltshire to Littlehampton, Sussex. On fine
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