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Remember the TWN Cornets?

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Sam Hewitt

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25th April 2018

Though my passion is for German motorcycles, especially those makes that were available in the UK, I am putting together a register of TWN Cornets and would be grateful if past and present owners could pass on any history, memories or information about the Cornets they might once have owned or still own. The TWN…
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They weren’t called Green Elephants for nothing…

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Sam Hewitt

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25th April 2018

While agreeing with Bernie, of the Adler to Zundapp Club, about the weight of the Zundapp flat twin pictured in readers’ letters in OBM (February) it wasn’t called the Green Elephant without a reason. Capable of 85mph in their normal sidecar-lugging guise, these machines powered the fastest outfits of the 1950s, and in such use…
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Happy birthday, Fed!

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Sam Hewitt

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25th April 2018

Mick Payne looks back over 60 years of the Federation of Sidecar Clubs, and sadly records the recent passing of his friend and long-time member, Ray Doran. I’d just started at infant school (as it was then known), my sister had recently been born and we lived in a two-up, two-down terraced house with an…
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When the good trail times rolled for Kawasaki

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Sam Hewitt

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25th April 2018

Steve Cooper unravels the complex history of Kawasaki’s trail bike models When it comes to trail bikes, Kawasaki never figured largely in the UK until the likes of the KDX and KMX 125/200s of the late 1980s and early 90s arrived. Sure, we’d had the KL250 in the late 1970s, but it was never Kawasaki’s…
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All set for the Engineerium Run

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Sam Hewitt

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18th April 2018

Open to classic and modern motorcycles, The Engineerium Motorcycle Run organised by the Sussex British Motorcycle Owners’ Club in partnership with Rotary in Brighton and Hove will take place on Sunday, April 22, with proceeds in support of the Kamelia Kids Children’s Centre in Worthing. The start and finish will be at Blatchington Mill School,…
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Great War theme, and room for more participants, in 2018 Golden Era Run

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Sam Hewitt

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18th April 2018

The 10th Golden Era Run being organised by the North East Section of the Vintage Motor Cycle Club at the Yorkshire Air Museum at Elvington, near York, on Sunday, July 29 will be themed to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War. Motorcycles and three-wheelers built before January 1931 will…
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Tony Jefferies will be Beezumph’s honoured guest

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Sam Hewitt

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18th April 2018

Guest of honour at the Trident & Rocket 3 Owners’ Club’s Beezumph 27 rally on Anglesey on July 13-14 will be TT hero Tony Jefferies, who will give a special talk about his racing career on the Friday evening before presenting the event awards the following day. Born in 1948, Tony started his stunning TT…
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Scottish memorial road run repeated

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Sam Hewitt

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18th April 2018

Following last year’s inaugural T Arnott Moffat Memorial Road Run organised by the Inverness & District Motor Cycle Club, there will be another such run around Loch Ness on Sunday, July 22, taking in around 130 miles of predominantly B class roads with a lunch stop at Foyers. All machines are welcome, and the entry…
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Diamond jubilee year for the BSA Owners’ Club

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Sam Hewitt

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18th April 2018

With an active worldwide membership and a nicely produced monthly journal entitled The Star, the BSA Owners’ Club, which can trace its roots to the first organising group in Sheffield in 1958, reaches its 60th anniversary this year. That first group was quickly followed by branches in Nottingham, Birmingham and Surrey, but even by 1960…
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Happy memories from the Manchester Eagles Motor Club

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Sam Hewitt

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18th April 2018

Harry Ingham’s letter about Frank Richardson (OBM February) brought back memories to a few of us in the Manchester Eagles Motor Club. I joined at the age of 17 in 1960, so didn’t know Harry, but the Marple Scramble would have been at Booth Farm, where we ran trials and scrambles until our move to…
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