Old Bike Mart

Greeves enthusiast pines for his old bikes

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Sam Hewitt

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4th January 2018

OBM reader Richard Deal is anxious to track down some of the motorcycles he once owned and, if any of them is for sale, to restore and place in his Greeves collection. Along with his brother Eric, Richard used to travel to trials all over the UK, including the Scottish Six Days’ Trial in which…
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Some things are simply meant to be!

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Sam Hewitt

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4th January 2018

Mark Wood tells how, when his dad John finally parted with his beloved Triumph Tiger Cub, by sheer chance it found its way back to its former owner of almost 50 years ago – who’d been pining away and looking for it for years. My dad John Wood, who’s 79, recently made the difficult decision…
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What a dream job it could all have been

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Sam Hewitt

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30th December 2017

John Finch recalls the excitement he felt when he secured a job as a design draughtsman with the BSA Motorcycle Division’s Umberslade Hall – but sadly redundancy was already looming just over the horizon. After reading Dave Myers’ recent article about BSA’s Umberslade research centre, I was looking through some old books and paperwork when…
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Just like Ernie’s – the Triumph GP replica that Eric built

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Sam Hewitt

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30th December 2017

During the 1980s, Eric Turner spent four years building a stunning replica of Ernie Lyons’ 1946 Manx Grand Prix-winning prototype Triumph GP from boxes of accumulated bits, hours of scouring autojumbles, some skilfully made small items of his own and a little bit of luck. Here, Eric recounts his marathon task. In August 1981 I…
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VMCC’s Festival of 1000 Bikes returns to Mallory Park in July

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Sam Hewitt

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30th December 2017

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

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Sam Hewitt

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30th December 2017

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…

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Sam Hewitt

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23rd December 2017

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

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Sam Hewitt

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23rd December 2017

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

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Sam Hewitt

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23rd December 2017

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!

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Sam Hewitt

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23rd December 2017

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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