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  • We’ll miss you, Ken

    We’ll miss you, Ken

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Moving farewell to Old Bike Mart founder Ken Hallworth Fitting tributes were paid to Ken Hallworth, Old Bike Mart’s founding editor and the Vintage Motor Cycle Club’s first full-time national secretary, at his funeral service at Macclesfield Crematorium on Thursday, January 12. Ken, who passed away at the age of 74 on Wednesday, December 21,…

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  • The road to the summit of Great Dun Fell

    The road to the summit of Great Dun Fell

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    Sam Hewitt

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    The cover picture of last month’s OBM showed a motorcyclist riding to the summit of Great Dun Fell in Cumbria, where the ‘giant golf ball’ is situated. The photograph shows the Eden Valley below, with the British Gypsum Factory at Kirkby Thore clearly visible. May I remind would-be riders that this road is privately owned…

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  • From our archive: What size boots do you take?

    From our archive: What size boots do you take?

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    Sam Hewitt

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    During the 90th anniversary year of the Royal Signals’ White Helmets motorcycle display team, Pete Kelly relives every moment of a day he spent training with them at Catterick, North Yorkshire, during the summer of 1971. Sounding like a tortured lawnmower, a penny-farthing, complete with Cyclemaster engine in the rear wheel, spluttered into view. Did…

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  • Made in Japan: Disc-valve dynamite – Bridgestone’s BS-175

    Made in Japan: Disc-valve dynamite – Bridgestone’s BS-175

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Bridgestone built some of the most advanced two-stroke bikes in the world, so why pull the plug 45 years ago? Steve Cooper explains. When the classic scene got going and folk finally realised there were other high end marques beyond Broughs and Vincents, the nascent scene was occasionally enlivened by the appearance of the odd…

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  • Pete’s Prattle

    Pete’s Prattle

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    Sam Hewitt

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    We never appreciate how good something is until we lose it – perhaps that’s why there’s such a big interest in old motorbikes – so the recent reports of disagreements within that great organisation, The Vintage Motor Cycle Club, have left me feeling rather sad, especially in the light of the untimely passing of Ken…

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  • Royal Enfield springs a breath of fresh mountain air

    Royal Enfield springs a breath of fresh mountain air

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    Sam Hewitt

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    With a brand new LS 410 engine, a rugged duplex split cradle frame designed and developed by Harris Performance and a strong monoshock rear suspension, Royal Enfield’s Himalayan balances aspiration with access, and is a serious contender in the adventure riding stakes. Bringing together 60 years of Himalayan riding experiences, Royal Enfield’s first-ever adventure motorcycle sends…

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  • The life and times of ‘Torrens’

    The life and times of ‘Torrens’

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Although the memories of Arthur Bourne, the legendary ‘Torrens’ of The Motor Cycle fame from 1928 until 1951, were written more than 40 years ago, only now have they finally been published – but it’s certainly been worth the wait, writes Pete Kelly. The one and only thing that Arthur Bourne and I had in…

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  • Buzz bombs Italiano!

    Buzz bombs Italiano!

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Pete Kelly looks back at some of the pint-sized Italian ‘cafe racers’ of the early 1960s With howling multi-cylinder machines and screaming two-strokes in a variety the world had never seen before, the mid-to-late 1950s and the whole of the 1960s will always be remembered as a golden age of motorcycle road racing. This was…

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  • Granite City welcome for Niall and Taylor Mackenzie

    Granite City welcome for Niall and Taylor Mackenzie

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    Sam Hewitt

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    More than 150 motorcycle enthusiasts gathered at the Beach Ballroom in Aberdeen on the last Tuesday in November, for the second in a series of yearly events aimed at bringing motorcycling legends to the north-east of Scotland, writes Gorgeous Biker Chick. Organiser Andy Freeman fell into arranging the events by accident. “I got to know…

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  • Norton 350T trials restoration completed

    Norton 350T trials restoration completed

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Stuart Dixon, who last year sent us a picture of his 350T Norton asking for information, has followed it up by showing the machine fully restored. His father came across the bike in Northern Ireland in 2015, and at first wasn’t sure if its specification was correct, but after some research on the web and…

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