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What a pair of beauties!

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Sam Hewitt

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3rd May 2018

By courtesy of the Sammy Miller Museum, visitors to the Vintage Motor Cycle Club’s Festival of 1000 Bikes at Mallory Park on July 7-8 will thrill to the sounds of two of the most exotic racing motorcycles ever built – the five-speed 498cc Moto Guzzi V8 and the four-speed 500cc double-overhead-camshaft Gilera as raced by…
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From our Archive: The Rising of the Rising Sun

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Sam Hewitt

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3rd May 2018

Dave Manning looks back to the very first days when ‘Honda’ became a familiar word, and the enthusiasm with which the weekly motorcycle press welcomed Japan’s engineering excellence. When Soichiro Honda claimed, in 1954, that the Honda Motor Company was “bigger than Japan”, many thought his words to be an idle boast that was simply…
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Water in the works!

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Sam Hewitt

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1st May 2018

Martin Hamer looks back fondly on a wet Scottish Highland tour with a dear friend on a misfiring 500cc Honda four, thanks to water in the works. Reading the November 2017 issue of Old Bike Mart, and in particular Lindsey Norris’s article relating to the challenges he faced with his Honda 400/4 when travelling to…
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BMW Airhead Fellowship plans its most ambitious event so far

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Sam Hewitt

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1st May 2018

The BMW Airhead Fellowship, a non-profit-making organisation run by Peter Ardron and dedicated to keeping as many air-cooled ‘R’-series BMWs as possible on the road, is planning an ambitious event at the Lincolnshire Showground in aid of the Lincolnshire & Nottinghamshire Air Ambulance from July 13-15. Unique in the history of the BMW vintage and…
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A Holmes-spun Triumph…

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Sam Hewitt

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1st May 2018

Recalling being blown into the weeds by a sharp-sounding and decidedly rapid JH Special Triumph Tiger Cub, John McCrink visits the man who created it and marvels at his home-brewed craftsmanship. About 10 years ago, while taking part in one of Pete Remington’s excellent Nostalgia Road Runs in the Lake District, I was riding out…
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We admired the Honda CB750, shook our heads and said this was the end – how right we were!

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Sam Hewitt

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1st May 2018

Gold-plated Daimlers – but belt-driven lathes still tried to produce precision motorcycle engine parts Former Umberslade employee John Cart adds to the revelations already published by OBM about this former BSA Group research facility as he tells what life was like there and remembers the best three years of his life Over the past few…
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Meet Carrot Cycles – Lincoln’s ‘can do’ team

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Sam Hewitt

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1st May 2018

During a visit to Carrot Cycles of Lincoln, Dave Manning is amazed by the sheer range of motorcycle components the team is able to produce, replicate or improve for the classic or vintage enthusiast. If you’re a regular show attendee, you might remember seeing the Carrot Cycles stand at places like the Stafford Show, complete…
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TRUE GRIT!: Shortened 79th Pioneer Run braves ‘Mini Beast from East’

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Sam Hewitt

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28th April 2018

Despite snow on the ground and a bitterly cold wind, the Sunbeam Motor Cycle Club’s classic season-opener on Sunday, March 18 brought determination by the bucketload, writes Ian Kerr. Although amber weather warnings about the ‘Mini Beast from the East’ threatened cancellation of this year’s 79th Pioneer Run on Sunday, March 18, after careful consideration…
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BSA C10 that taught me everything

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Sam Hewitt

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28th April 2018

Bernie Freeman looks back fondly at the 250cc side-valve single that was the first love of his motorcycling life. I knew I wanted a motorbike from the age of 13, when I saw one ‘tonning it’ along London’s North Circular Road, so as soon as I started work as a trainee fitter/welder I started saving.…
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Getting the wind up – with a bit of dry Cornish humour!

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Sam Hewitt

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28th April 2018

Colyn Thomas fondly remembers the comings and goings around an old Cornish garage beside the A38 where he and his motorcycling friends met up in the mid-1950s. Remember the Good Old Days, with rickety old motorcycles and sidecars crammed with kids, shopping, the dog and the wife’s handbag, and the wife perched behind the rider,…
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