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  • Sunbeam MCC’s Rose of the Shires Run reflects 2200-mile Triumph marathon of 107 years ago

    Sunbeam MCC’s Rose of the Shires Run reflects 2200-mile Triumph marathon of 107 years ago

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Back in 1911, Mr Albert E Catt took his 3½ hp Triumph on an endurance ride that totalled 2200 miles in six days, averaging more than 400 miles per day at an average speed of 23mph – and the Sunbeam Motor Cycle Club will be celebrating his amazing achievement in the Rose of the Shires…

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  • Lansdowne Classic Series celebrates 20th racing season with new image

    Lansdowne Classic Series celebrates 20th racing season with new image

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    Sam Hewitt

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    With a bright new logo and a complete update of its www.lansdowneclassicseries.co.uk website, the Lansdowne Classic Series will be celebrating its 20th year of top road racing in style. The 2018 season will consist of seven Championship rounds with the Classic Racing Motorcycle Club, British Motor Cycle Racing Club, North Glos Racing, Endurance Legends and…

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  • Wartime antics at Crich Tramway Village

    Wartime antics at Crich Tramway Village

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Those who enjoyed a ride-out to the Crich Tramway Village near Matlock, Derbyshire, over Easter found themselves in a realistic wartime situation with identity card checks, air-raid warnings and the sounds of low-flying aircraft as the museum staged its WWII/1940s Era Weekend. As vintage trams rumbled by, historic road and military vehicles both static and…

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  • How I fell for those useless bike gadgets

    How I fell for those useless bike gadgets

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    Sam Hewitt

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    In response to ‘Pete’s Prattle’ about useless accessories (OBM February), many readers out there must recall the many gadgets that were offered temptingly in the motorcycling magazines of the 1950s. I fell for most of them, and found that they all had faults. Way back in 1956, after buying a 125cc James ML ex-paratrooper machine…

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  • When the good trail times rolled for Kawasaki

    When the good trail times rolled for Kawasaki

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    Sam Hewitt

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    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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  • Pete’s Prattle

    Pete’s Prattle

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Reader Colyn Thomas’s atmospheric recollections of the comings and goings at the petrol pumps at Castle Garage, on the A38 at Trebrown Bridge in Cornwall, and this month’s cover shot of two BSA C15 Sportsman riders at North Bar Garage in Banbury, a control point in the 1966 National Rally, got my memory buds going.…

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  • April 2018

    April 2018

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Old Bike Mart offers the UK’s largest selection of classic motorcycle classifieds. It features news, racing reports, reviews and newly discovered historic machines plus hundreds of ads to browse. DIARY DATES READERS’ LETTERS STAFFORD CLASSIC BIKE SHOW TALMAG TRIAL IT’S MY BIKE TALKING JAPANESE READERS’ TALES UNEARTHED FEEDBACK A BIT ON THE SIDE CLASSIFIED OBM…

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  • Sammy Miller’s 1954 BMW Rennsport to be displayed at Stafford Classic Bike Show

    Sammy Miller’s 1954 BMW Rennsport to be displayed at Stafford Classic Bike Show

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    Sam Hewitt

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    The world famous 1954 classic BMW Rennsport, which almost won the world championship with the great Walter Zeller – is set to be displayed on the Hagon Shocks stand at the fast approaching International Classic MotorCycle Show. The bike sits amongst innumerable treasures in Sammy’s collection, and has been paraded at Goodwood, Donington, Mallory, Verano…

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  • A well-used Greeves Ranger

    A well-used Greeves Ranger

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    Sam Hewitt

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    After reading about the Greeves trail bikes in OBM (February) David Hamsley emailed us to say that maybe readers would like to see a photo of the Greeves Ranger that he brought back from the USA in 1990. It still looks well, David – and thanks very much. Read more Letters, Opinion, News and Views…

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  • Like mum, like daughter – but Kitt did the ‘ton’ over the Cat and Fiddle

    Like mum, like daughter – but Kitt did the ‘ton’ over the Cat and Fiddle

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    Sam Hewitt

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    May I introduce your readers to Kitt Stappard, a friend and neighbour who gave up smoking after a year when she realised she could buy a Vespa with the money instead? This lasted a short while until she ‘upgraded’ to a Lambretta. The accompanying colour photo of her on a modern bike was in response…

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