New & Features

As the days close in, and the clocks go back, periodicals of all types are inundated with press releases of calendars and diaries. Fortunately for us, the calendars that we get to see are far more interesting than the ubiquitous humorous pictures of kittens in baskets, as these calendars focus purely on motorcycles, and classic…

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Despite only being launched last year, Triumph’s Street Scrambler has proved incredibly popular, and the new model year sees a number of improvements and alterations to the bike that hark back to the halcyon days of the Bonneville T120TT and TR6 C. A nd these improvements also apply to the bike that many see as…

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Breaking the winter stalemate between the family-oriented festive period and the desire to get out and do the sort of stuff that we all really want to do, the Carole Nash Winter Classic at Newark Showground is the perfect way to ease your way from the comfort of the fireside and to burn off some…

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While the most recent issue of OBM has a feature focussing on the powerplants created by West Midland’s bearing and crank specialists Alpha Bearings, there is a little faux pas in that the company are actually still in operation, and haven’t closed after the sad death of Max Nightingale earlier this year. While Max’s business…

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Having been kicked out of the town’s polytechnic after just a year of a mechanical engineering course, Dave Manning hangs his head in shame as he returns to Stafford, thirty years later. Early October is never going to have predictable weather, and although the second weekend of the month this year was rather clement, it…

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Just a day after last month’s issue of OBM was printed, we heard that Alpha Bearings had been closed, after the sad loss of Max Nightingale in June – since he was sole director of Alpha Bearings, the company also died with him. So, while we wanted to run an obituary, both for Max and…

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The word is now definitely out on the classic world bush telegraph that the annual Moto Club Indianos Colombres Rally is the best in Spain and probably much of Europe, and Ian Kerr MBE wholeheartedly concurs. Described by a Spanish motorcycle publication earlier this year as the ‘Spanish Daytona Bike Week’, it is now firmly…

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A rare opportunity was given to members of local bike clubs in the Portsmouth area last month (September) when Ray Waller, co-owner of the Comet Classics Showroom, near Emsworth, Hampshire, invited them to view his current stock at a Sunday ‘open morning’. Generally, viewing of the Comet collection is strictly by ‘appointment only’ and ever…

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Created in 1950, the Pinhard Trophy celebrates the achievements of young riders in motorcycle sports of all types. Set up by the Sunbeam Club – and, as an aside, remember that the club doesn’t just focus on Sunbeams, but on all early motorcycles, and organises pre-1940 events such as the Pioneer run, as well as…

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In a celebration of their 60th year of existence, the Brough Superior Club organised an across-Britain ride, with the destination being Sammy Miller’s museum in Hampshire. But rather than it being a simple point-to-point ride out, the club spent a full week traversing the country, visiting important places in Brough’s history. The route started at…

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