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  • VMCC’s Festival of 1000 Bikes returns to Mallory Park in July

    VMCC’s Festival of 1000 Bikes returns to Mallory Park in July

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    Sam Hewitt

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    After repeated requests from its members and the motorcycling fraternity at large, the Vintage Motor Cycle Club has announced the return of one of the best motorcycling events in Europe, the VMCC Festival of 1000 Bikes combined with the Mallory Bonanza, at Mallory Park over the weekend of July 6-8, 2018. The event will be…

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  • Farewell to Ron Maund – Shropshire’s quiet man

    Farewell to Ron Maund – Shropshire’s quiet man

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    Sam Hewitt

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    One of Shropshire’s outstanding classic bike enthusiasts, Ron Maund, passed away on November 5, and we are grateful to Jim Reynolds for this timely obituary. Ron had been involved with bikes from the 1950s, riding to the TT on a solo in the early days and later taking his family in his Triumph Thunderbird sidecar…

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  • There may be troubles ahead…

    There may be troubles ahead…

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Seizures, bent valves and cooked batteries were just three of the problems encountered when James Crosby set off on an epic 2821-mile journey around Britain on a Triumph Tiger Cub to raise awareness of the current financial plight of the London Motorcycle Museum, writes Ian Kerr – but dogged determination won through in the end.…

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  • Society of Model & Experimental Engineers offers engineering courses to bike restorers

    Society of Model & Experimental Engineers offers engineering courses to bike restorers

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    Sam Hewitt

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    When Stuart Budd began restoring a decrepit 1937 Royal Enfield Model S that had been discovered behind a Thai restaurant in Kent, he knew that he needed to develop some engineering skills. He described the bike as “a lethal but just about running basket case” that needed a radical overhaul to bring it to the…

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  • Mystery sidecar was a Mitzi

    Mystery sidecar was a Mitzi

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Being a fan of sidecar outfits and three-wheelers, I very much enjoy the articles by Mick Payne, and his article on the Honda outfit (October), in which he was unsure of the sidecar’s origin, was interesting. The sidecar is a Watsonian Mitzi, and the model was developed to fit on to 250cc MZs in the…

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  • Dreaming of summer – and TT races long ago!

    Dreaming of summer – and TT races long ago!

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Regular contributor Colin Rider digs out some family photos of the TT during the early 1950s – and gives us the perfect Christmas quiz idea. Winter… it’s a time when we reflect on summers past and make plans for those to come – and for many motorcyclists it’s a time to look through the family…

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  • Home from the war – on a Coventry-Eagle?

    Home from the war – on a Coventry-Eagle?

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Attached is a 1947 photo of my uncle, Harold Newton, sitting on his Coventry-Eagle. At least that’s what I think it is, but perhaps other readers could comment. It was taken in Sheffield, probably in the rear garden of the family home in Crookesmoor, after he returned from the war. He spent the entire time…

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  • Unnamed Guzzi was a Cardellino

    Unnamed Guzzi was a Cardellino

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    Sam Hewitt

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    In the ‘Lightweights with attitude’ feature about Italian motorcycles in last month’s OBM, the small but undescribed Moto Guzzi is a 73cc Cardellino (goldfinch), and as members of the Moto Guzzi Club of Great Britain we own such a machine. Most Guzzis were named after birds, and we bought our example fresh from Milan, where…

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  • Happy 50th birthday, Norton Commando!

    Happy 50th birthday, Norton Commando!

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Ian Kerr reports on a great exhibition staged by the Norton Owners’ Club to celebrate the 50th anniversary of one of the marque’s most successful machines at Ardingly, West Sussex, at the end of October. Even though another big classic event was taking place at Peterborough on the same weekend, thousands flocked to the South…

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  • Flat-tank Cotton in last month’s cover shot

    Flat-tank Cotton in last month’s cover shot

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Thanks for another great edition of OBM, which really is a top publication these days. Your front page picture is always interesting, and as an active Cotton enthusiast I found last month’s particularly so. The bike shown is one of the last flat-tank Cottons built in Gloucester, either a 350cc Model 7 or a 500cc…

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