Old Bike Mart

Today it’s hard to imagine 200-mile road races on dodgy road surfaces, with riders clipping straw bales at every corner – but that’s exactly how it was at the Leinster ‘200’ at Wicklow, in the Irish Republic, back in 1957. Sammy Miller MBE was going through some archives last November when he came across a…

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This 198cc Coventry-Eagle is the latest restoration to emerge from the workshop at the Sammy Miller Museum. The owner, who collected it in January, has now taken it back to Cornwall, where he intends to ride it. Anyone wishing to see more about the restoration can view a six-minute video clip by searching for the…

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Glen Grindod has emailed us to say that a 1928 BSA S28 DeLuxe that he was restoring was stolen from his workshop in Fyfield, Essex, at the beginning of January. When he came across the machine in a collection of motorcycles two years ago, it had been taken apart by a previous owner, but everything…

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More than 100 years of Norton will be celebrated at the South of England Classic Bike Show & Jumble on Sunday, March 25 at The South of England Showground, Ardingly, West Sussex RH17 6TL. Nortons from all eras from veteran onwards will be featured, and Brooklands Museum will be taking some of its rare pre-war…

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This amazing picture taken at Laxey, Isle of Man, shows how the ‘runaway tram’ problem on the Snaefell Mountain Railway has finally been solved – and don’t forget you saw it in Old Bike Mart first! While the new trams are claimed to be 50% faster than the originals, TT racers have expressed concerns regarding…

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A pre-production Honda CB750 four, one of only two survivors from the four originally largely handmade in Japan around 1968, was due to come up for sale at the H&H Classics sale at the National Motorcycle Museum on March 4. This particular machine, bearing frame no CB750-2110, reached Britain in 1969 and after being registered…

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Welsh Road Race is postponed until 2019 Because of recent legislative changes to the Road Traffic Act in Wales, the directors of the planned Welsh Road Race at the historic Eppynt circuit in August have been forced to announce that the event has had to be postponed until next year. A date for the 2019…

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