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Editor’s welcome

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Sam Hewitt

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4th May 2018

It’s sometimes a bit difficult to explain to people why we enjoy riding old motorcycles – and why we consider […]
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Editor’s welcome

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Sam Hewitt

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6th April 2018

Many years ago, I was instructed to never mention the weather in columns such as this, as it smacked of […]
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Beatrice Shilling

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Sam Hewitt

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20th March 2018

Three remarkable women were awarded Gold Stars for lapping the Brooklands circuit at over 100mph – two were mentioned in […]
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Editor’s welcome

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Sam Hewitt

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2nd March 2018

As I write, we are heading towards the end of February and there are the first shoots of spring appearing, […]
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Wrong Star

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Sam Hewitt

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5th February 2018

My passion lies with prewar BSA M24 Gold Stars and related singles so I was therefore delighted to find the […]
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Editor’s Welcome

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Sam Hewitt

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3rd February 2018

Coincidences in motorcycling seem to occur with a reasonable degree of regularity. Some are just odd – for example, […]
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Editor’s welcome

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Sam Hewitt

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5th January 2018

What’s in a name? I was thinking that when reading about the Norton P11 in this issue (p20), which sports […]
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Editor’s welcome

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Sam Hewitt

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1st December 2017

We had an interesting day out at the National Motorcycle Museum’s open day (see page 12), where we took a […]
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Editor’s welcome

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Sam Hewitt

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3rd November 2017

In his column this month, Jerry Thurston talks about a motorcycle from each decade that he’d like to own, which […]
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Matchless size issues

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Sam Hewitt

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22nd October 2017

With reference to the article on the splendid Matchless in the October edition of TCM, it may well have been […]
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