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  • White Helmets celebrating 90 years of Royal Signals motorcycle displays

    White Helmets celebrating 90 years of Royal Signals motorcycle displays

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    Sam Hewitt

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    The Royal Corps of Signals’ White Helmets motorcycle display team, now based at Blandford, Dorset, can trace its origins back to 1927, when the first public displays of joint precision horsemanship and motorcycle riding were given by instructors and students from the Signal Training Centre in Yorkshire. In this 90th anniversary year of 2017, the…

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  • Spectacular Greeves line-up at Telford Classic Dirt Bike Show

    Spectacular Greeves line-up at Telford Classic Dirt Bike Show

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    Sam Hewitt

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    A special display of Greeves scramblers – one for each year of the firm’s existence – is being planned for the Telford Classic Dirt Bike Show, sponsored by Hagon Shocks, at the Telford International Centre over the weekend of February 18/19. In a world first, no fewer than 21 scramblers, from the first production run…

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  • Book Review: A truly Matchless apprenticeship

    Book Review: A truly Matchless apprenticeship

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Pete Kelly reviews Bill Cakebread’s newly-reprinted and wonderfully-evocative story of life in London during and just after the war, and his apprenticeship and early working life at AMC’s long-vanished Plumstead Road factory. Every now and then, of the many motorcycling books that arrive at Old Bike Mart for review, a diamond-plated gem comes along; one…

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  • What Des Heckle’s rolling chassis did next

    What Des Heckle’s rolling chassis did next

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    Sam Hewitt

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    It was interesting to read the article in August’s OBM regarding Des Heckle’s Yamaha sprinter and the reference to Des selling his rolling chassis “to someone who wanted to use it as a basis for a drag race bike”. Well I was that person, and remember one evening after work driving up from Buckinghamshire to…

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  • 3TA Project 90 revived

    3TA Project 90 revived

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Some considerable time ago, Tim Britton delved into a 3TA Triumph engine that had been lying around the place for years… and following a casual comment from editor Pete Kelly recently, Tim has kindly agreed to pick up where he left off. Photos by Fiona Watson. Some readers might recall seeing a few of the…

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  • WITH THE FAIRIES! Ireland by sidecar outfit, 1979

    WITH THE FAIRIES! Ireland by sidecar outfit, 1979

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Pete Kelly looks back fondly on an idyllic sidecar tour of Ireland with his late wife Liz, on a Kawasaki 1000/Squire combination, when the Troubles were at their height 37 years ago. The first time I ever took Liz on the pillion of my Kawasaki Z650, I made the gross mistake of doing the ‘ton’. After that,…

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  • Hedingham sidecars – built with pride in Essex

    Hedingham sidecars – built with pride in Essex

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Mick Payne looks back to his first meeting with Keith Wash, the founder of Unit Sidecars whose Hedingham models were keenly sought-after. I was running late, but my MZ ETZ250 and Squire Dart outfit wasn’t really capable of making up much time. Not only that, but I was on my way to my first-ever interview…

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  • TELFORD OFF-ROAD SHOW GUESTS OF HONOUR ANNOUNCED

    TELFORD OFF-ROAD SHOW GUESTS OF HONOUR ANNOUNCED

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    Sam Hewitt

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    The countdown has begun to the biggest classic off-road event of the year… and it’s all eyes on the Telford International Centre, which will once again host the two-day Classic Dirt Bike Show, sponsored by Hagon Shocks. The event takes place across the weekend of February 18-19, with one of the star guests having been confirmed…

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  • Pete’s Prattle

    Pete’s Prattle

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    Sam Hewitt

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    There are two reasons to reflect this month, as I devote this month’s ‘Prattle’ to two of my Old Bike Mart predecessors. One of them was my great friend and work colleague Malcolm Wheeler, who was given a rousing send-off at his retirement do at our Horncastle offices on Wednesday, December 14. Always happy to…

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  • Don’t delay, book today for a fabulous Isle of Man Festival

    Don’t delay, book today for a fabulous Isle of Man Festival

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    Sam Hewitt

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    One New Year resolution worth making right now is to visit next year’s Isle of Man Festival of Motorcycling from Saturday, August 19 until Sunday, September 3. With the VMCC playing a huge part in ensuring its success, it has all the ingredients of a truly unmissable event – so what are you waiting for?…

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