Editor’s intro

Taking a break from the monthly deadline panic and pressures, I decided to pop along to my local autojumble for a wander around and a look, with some spare change rattling in my pocket should a bargain appear. I’m lucky in that, where I’m currently living, there are a decent number of autojumbles within easy…

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Since taking over from Pete Kelly esq at the helm of the good ship OBM, I’ve been fascinated by the directness of the connection that the publication has with its readers, and how so many of you wonderful folk keep in regular contact. Whether it be by letter, email, telephone, semaphore or carrier pigeon, it’s…

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It was only a single day of being patient – in both senses of the word, being parked in a day ward awaiting surgery on my throttle hand’s damaged ligaments – but it was a day that resulted in a chance to catch up with some reading. Not of novels (although like many folk, I…

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A short while ago, just after the clocks had turned and the nights really began to draw in, I received a press release which, essentially, told me to stash my riding gear in a cupboard under the stairs and put my bike away for winter. As it happens, the email in question was just explaining…

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Being regular readers of this monthly missive, you’ll know that the classic bike world has a lot of clubs. Look at Club Call on page 19 if you need that fact reaffirming. So many different clubs, there must be a suitable one for everyone? I’m not a ‘club person’, but I have learned that being…

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As I wrote my editorial piece for last month’s issue, introducing myself to you wonderful readers, I was struck by the timing of my move into the editorial chair, what with it coinciding with Old Bike Mart’s 400th issue. Consequently, I’ve been putting a lot of thought into timing of late, invariably while I’m walking…

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As you’ll know from last issue’s editorial, Pete Kelly has slid across to the lofty heights of the editorial high chair of Railway Modeller Magazine, allowing me to perch myself in the still-warm and comfy OBM editor’s armchair, settling happily into the re-stuffed cushions and ignoring the threadbare arms and bits of horsehair hanging beneath.…

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Since May this year, events at the office have meant me editing a second Mortons publication, on a subject quite unrelated to motorcycling, in addition to Old Bike Mart, and the time has now come for me to concentrate solely on the former. So after the best part of four-and-a-half years, it’s time to hand…

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Letter after letter has come in to OBM in recent weeks, about the perceived state of the old bike movement, with many readers citing factors such as high auction prices, hoarding bikes as ‘nest eggs’ with profit rather than riding in mind, potential new riders being put off by stringent learner/riding test rules, and even…

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