Old Bike Mart

The picture of a group of mostly BSA riders in your ‘Unidentical Twins’ feature in OBM (June) was taken just outside the Customs & Excise car hall at the Western Docks in Dover. The view over the low building in the foreground is towards the Dover-Dunkerque train ferry dock, hence the rail wagons at the…

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A friend recently sent me a number of photographs of old motorcycles dating from the early part of the last century, some of which readers might find very interesting, as I certainly did. The photo of folk moving furniture with a combination is of particular interest – how times have changed! Several of the bikes…

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When I received last month’s OBM and saw the National Rally seafront scene at Rhyl, I was quite taken aback, thinking it was the same rally I took part in, but then I realised my own efforts had been in 1962. My machine was a 1957 Norton Dominator that I bought new and sold about…

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I recognised the photo on the front page of last month’s OBM as my old stomping ground of Rhyl promenade straightaway – not that I was lucky enough to have seen it in its heyday of the 1950s, because I didn’t come onto the scene until the early 1970s. We had a good go at…

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Your feature about the vintage reunion at Montlhery was most welcome. I’m sure many of your readers would love the event as it features only prewar machinery in two, three and four-wheeled form, making it an opportunity to view stuff never normally seen in the UK, with vehicles attending from all over Europe. Motorcycles are…

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