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Editor’s welcome

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Sam Hewitt

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6th October 2017

This month has involved lots of miles on several different motorcycles, once again underlining that, for me, diversity is the spice of life. From my annual jaunt to the Irish rally, to a couple of club runs, as well as shows and visits, it has been a fairly frantic spell, where, as always happens, I…
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Editor’s welcome

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Sam Hewitt

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6th September 2017

So another month has flown by, in a whirl of events and rides, ranging from the grand scale Donington Classic to lots of local club runs, all the while managing to put plenty of miles on various bikes, including the Model 90 Sunbeam I rode at Banbury and which I’m lucky enough to have been…
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Happy trials reminiscing

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Sam Hewitt

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6th September 2017

Perusing the August 2017 issue, I turn to page 90 and there was the bike that makes this old heart jump. A 1959 Greeves Scottish. After watching works rider Jackie Simpson practising on his bike, with an alloy barrel with detachable transfer ports no less, I lusted for one. I traded in my faithful, heavy…
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A fan of the Max

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Sam Hewitt

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18th July 2017

A few years ago I rebuilt an identical machine to the NSU Max featured (June 2017). It had stood partly dismantled in the yard of a shop, abandoned by the owner when the cost of replacing the big end was more than he thought the bike was worth. I bought it and set about returning…
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Editor’s welcome

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Sam Hewitt

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7th July 2017

For this issue we’ve made an extra effort to encourage and appreciate the use of old motorcycles, hence the ‘get out and ride’ motif you’ll see on some of the pages. The breadth of events oldmotorcycle ownership and interest opens up is hopefully demonstrated, be it trials, road racing, VMCC-type runs, European events, veteran and…
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Editor’s welcome

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Sam Hewitt

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8th June 2017

There are times – many times – as I look through the Mortons archive when I veer off on a tangent, unable to resist going down an avenue as my curiosity has been piqued, which happened again as I researched the 1954 Dutch TT for the archive picture in this issue. Occasionally a name appears…
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Honda enthusiasm

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Sam Hewitt

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26th May 2017

I wrote to you last year regarding the Honda CB160 at the Bristol Show and mentioned that at £220 new in 1965 it certainly wasn’t cheap compared to the British capacity equivalent, quite apart from its obvious superiority. I now see in Roy’s excellent piece on the Norton Electra (March 2017) that he also perpetuates…
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Flat-tankers on tracks

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Sam Hewitt

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19th May 2017

I and several friends regularly take our flat-tankers to French events such as the Coupes de Moto Legende at Dijon and the Vintage Revival at Montlhery. The opportunities to ride your girder forked motorcycle on a race track in the UK are pretty limited. I have spoken to some UK circuits and it is definitely…
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Norton memories

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Sam Hewitt

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12th May 2017

I’ve just finished reading your excellent April 2017 edition, with contributions that triggered my motorcycling memories, and now, after 56 years of riding, I find myself writing to a motorcycle journal. Phil Turner asked: “How about you?” at the end of his article on the Super Rocket and SS, which prompted the following: I regularly…
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Editor’s welcome

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Sam Hewitt

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5th May 2017

Often, it’s the little things, the details, that fascinate me. For instance, looking back over the pictures of the NSU Special Max I rode at the end of last summer, in preparation for this issue, I realised that one of the things that appealed to me about the motorcycle, was the stylised ignition key. That…
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