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Styled much like a heavy-duty short workshop jacket, this wax cotton shirt from City Of Leather is subtly styled yet has all the protective features that you’d expect from a well-spec’d motorcycle jacket. With shoulder, elbow and back protector all fitted, the lining is also lined with original DuPont Kevlar fabric, and there’s also a…

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As you may have already noticed, this issue of OBM brings with it a pack of raffle tickets for the National Motorcycle Museum’s first raffle of 2019, in which entrants gain the chance to win not only a luxury hotel break and dinner for two at the Marco Pierre White Steakhouse at the Manor Hotel,…

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On Tuesday, November 27, at 11.30am, brothers Don and Derek Rickman, who effectively started the Rickman brand back in 1960, will be ‘cutting the sod’ at a groundbreaking ceremony to mark the start of construction of a new combined 20,000 sq ft production and museum facility, that will not only house the production line, but…

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Regular readers of OBM will know that the National Motorcycle Museum in Solihull – right next to the crux of the M6 and M42 motorways, and smack-bang in the middle of the country – is a treasure trove of classic British motorcycles and the history surrounding them, writes Dave Manning. Those of us who have…

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A new trials series has been announced for 2019, based around four long-established classic events, with the prime objective being to raise interest in the classic trials scene in the Midlands and south of England. With the four rounds being the Cotswold Cup in Stroud on March 24, The Sam Cooper Union Jack trial in…

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It’s logical to think that any kind of museum will be going to hold on to all of its exhibits ad infinitum, but that’s not always strictly true. Sometimes it’s due to financial reasons, occasionally it’s thanks to local politics, but the most common reason – and the situation that we see here – is…

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