The Classic MotorCycle

Portway promenade

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Sam Hewitt

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5th August 2016

Lovely period photograph, from June 1933, of motorcyclists and their machines lined on the Portway, Bristol. ‘… the fine concrete road and promenade running beside the river Avon in the deep Avon Gorge at Clifton, a suburb of Bristol.’ The Motor Cycle reported; “It would have been a more attractive venue, from a scenic point…
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Editor’s welcome

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Sam Hewitt

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5th August 2016

Last month, in the You Were Asking pages, Richard Rosenthal dealt with the enquiry from a reader, Terence Worthington, selling two motorcycles, asking whether he could legally enforce a stipulation the motorcycles weren’t restored once they’d been sold. Richard advised that unfortunately such a situation couldn’t be guaranteed, and once something is sold, then the…
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CHECK BACK SOON FOR MORE COMPETITIONS

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Sam Hewitt

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12th July 2016

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A question of sport

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Sam Hewitt

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11th July 2016

When thinking of a sport to combine with football (or soccer to our American friends) the petrol-fuelled revelry of motorcycling hardly seems conducive, but motorcycle football really was all the rage in the 1920s, 30s and even beyond, with crowds flocking to watch the beautiful game played on motorcycles. A question of sport The bizarre…
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Pretty special

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Sam Hewitt

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11th July 2016

This attractive 500cc replica of a Production TT winner started life as a 350cc Viper. Pretty special Wrapped up against the cold, Colin Archer exercises his motorcycle. Bombing along the wide empty roads of the Mendips with my head tucked behind the Velocette’s race screen, it needed little imagination to transport my mind back to…
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Trying times

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Sam Hewitt

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11th July 2016

Have you ever been to a museum and wanted to ‘have a go’ on the exhibits? Now, the National Motorcycle Museum has decided to allow that to happen. Trying times Nottingham man Clive Osman had come along to sample the older machines, though he wasn’t a complete novice to the game, having ridden a couple…
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Motorcycles dominate at the Land’s End Trial

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Sam Hewitt

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11th July 2016

Previously an event favoured equally by those of the two-, three- and four-wheeled persuasion, the 1953 Land’s End Trial was one in which the motorcycles took centre stage. Motorcycles dominate at the Land’s End Trial C R Bell (Ariel) trundles determinedly across Darracott. Those behind him would be caught in a small snowstorm that thankfully…
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Vitesse with finesse

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Sam Hewitt

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11th July 2016

An exhaustive search led to the resurrection of an incredibly rare, but quite fabulous, model. Vitesse with finesse Though it has taken an awful lot of hard work and effort to construct, Gernot isn’t afraid to use his Super Vitesse. Gernot Schuh is nuts about New Hudson. The 45-year-old Austrian bought the first of his…
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The story of the Ormonde

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Sam Hewitt

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11th July 2016

Modern literature often relates the decline of the British and continental motorcycle industry in the 1950s and 1960s. Arguably the rot set in before the First World War. The story of the Ormonde With the explosion of cycling during the late Victorian and early Edwardian days, leading to huge businesses yielding gargantuan profits, it is…
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Spring in the air at Ardingly

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Sam Hewitt

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11th July 2016

Spectators riding in, taking advantage of fine spring weather, soon filled the regular bike parks at the Ardingly Showground for the first of this year’s ELK Promotions shows, on April 3. Spring in the air at Ardingly Frank Kay bought this hard-used Greeves Hawkstone scrambles bike in 1980 and registered it for the road. It…
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