Old Bike Mart

November issue available now!

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Pauline Hawkins

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4th November 2017

Ninety years ago – and what a very different world it was! A smart young lady helps herself to petrol for an immaculate side-valve motorcycle from a shilling-in-the-slot petrol pump outside a garage in Cheltenham in 1927. Photo: Mortons Archive www.mortonsarchive.com The November 2017 issue of Old Bike Mart is now available – by subscription…
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Outfits to the fore in Beamish Trophy Trial

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Sam Hewitt

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2nd November 2017

Local sidecar crew Ian Reavley and Colin Goode from Blyth, Northumberland, didn’t even have to leave the county to compete in the 45th Beamish Trophy Trial on September 17 – and on their 1935 Norton combination they beat their fellow sidecar competitors and all the solo riders as well to take home the Richard Hoare…
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End of a glorious era as six White Helmets Triumphs come under Charterhouse gavel

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Sam Hewitt

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2nd November 2017

Sherborne auctioneers Charterhouse are selling six of the world famous Royal Signals Motorcycle Display Team Triumph motorcycles at their Sherborne salerooms on Thursday, November 16. More commonly known as the White Helmets, the display team was a group of serving soldiers from the Royal Corps of Signals who performed public displays of motorcycling skills, aerobatics…
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Aaron Slight proves a big hit at 24th Carole Nash Classic Motorcycle Mechanics Show

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Sam Hewitt

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2nd November 2017

Even the weather played ball for the 24th Carole Nash Classic Motorcycle Mechanics Show at the Staffordshire County Showground on October 14-15, when former Kiwi World Superbike star Aaron Slight told entertaining stories on stage with compere Steve Plater. After each session, large queues formed of people who wanted to meet Aaron and have items…
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A Trotter-free zone!

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Sam Hewitt

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2nd November 2017

This month, for once, Mick Payne look at three-wheelers of a different kind, and points out that the idea goes back a very long time! While looking at the Honda outfit we featured in this column last month, a three-wheeler of a different kind caught my eye. “That’s my wife’s Lomax,” pointed out Anthony of…
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Damp coils and blazing hair – a Honda CB400 trip to remember!

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Sam Hewitt

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2nd November 2017

Lindsay Norris, now living in New Zealand, set off on a Honda CB400F with a mate to the Italianate village of Portmeirion, North Wales, where the TV series The Prisoner was filmed. But he had no idea of the challenges ahead… It was January 1978, and I was a 21-year-old student living in London. I’d…
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Are you ready for the onslaught of winter?

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Sam Hewitt

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2nd November 2017

Back in the day, preparing a well-used bike for winter was simplicity itself, as these tips from the Mortons Archive show, writes Pete Kelly I suppose you have to be of a certain age to remember Albion lorries, but the tops of their radiator surrounds were always embossed with a ‘rising sun’ design to go…
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Only Bounders Ride Motorcycles

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Sam Hewitt

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28th October 2017

By Pete Kelly I sometimes think that Yorkshiremen are born with dry humour – and it simply falls from the pages of Ken Mellor’s self-published book, Only Bounders Ride Motorcycles, 100 Years of Family Motorcycling. It’s the story of the pleasure derived from man’s basic conception of the internal combustion engine by a father and…
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Great revival gathers pace

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Sam Hewitt

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28th October 2017

It’s strange how bikes seem to get heavier as we become older, and with the debate about retro-styled bikes from the Far East still raging, we thought some readers might like an idea about what the best of such machines are really like to ride. There appears to be an abundance of relatively low-priced 125cc…
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A ‘time warp’ Ariel Huntmaster engine

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Sam Hewitt

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28th October 2017

When you buy a spare engine for a classic bike, you’re never sure about its internal condition – but when Mark Hiscox of Cambridge pulled from his garage shelf a 1954 Ariel Huntmaster engine that he’d bought last year, he found a rolled-up piece of paper telling exactly what work had been done to it…
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