Sam Hewitt

Best of British

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Sam Hewitt

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7th October 2016

REMEMBER, REMEMBER the fifth of November – but don’t bother blowing up the Houses of Parliament. Instead, head for the National Motorcycles Museum in Birmingham to make the most of the NMM’s massive ‘Live’ open day. The NMM’s extensive collection of British bikes – the biggest in the world – has been extensively reconfigured so…
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Stars at Stafford

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Sam Hewitt

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7th October 2016

FOUR OF THE racing celebrities who starred in the iconic film On Any Sunday will be reunited at the Carole Nash Classic Motorcycle Mechanics Show on October 15-16. Nominated for an Oscar, the documentary portrayed the riding lives of hotshot motorcycle racers of the early 1970s. Directed by Bruce Brown, it was produced by Steve…
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Vincent Motorcycles: The Untold Story since 1946

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Sam Hewitt

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7th October 2016

GIVEN THE VINCENT’S reputation as one of the most remarkable motorcycles ever manufactured, any book which attempts to cover the subject needs to be similarly accomplished. This massive hardback, which runs to 400 fact-packed, full-colour pages, is the most comprehensive volume currently available. It discusses why and how the brand declined into bankruptcy, and why…
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Good vibrations

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Sam Hewitt

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7th October 2016

STROLLING THROUGH the magazine section at ASDA, I was stopped in my tracks. I must have stepped through a black hole because I was suddenly 17 years old again. That’s some feat for a magazine. Some motorbikes thoroughly deserve to be reborn and the Métisse is certainly one of them. I doubt I’m representative of…
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It is a star

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Sam Hewitt

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7th October 2016

WORDS BY ROB DAVIES PHOTOS BY BARRY TAYLOR (OLD PRINTS), MODERN PICS FROM BARRY, ROB, AND ROBIN HORTON Fifty-one years and still going strong. The story of one man and his A65… BSA had the canny – you might even say crafty – knack of making many bikes out of one product. Oh, they changed…
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Dominating decades

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Sam Hewitt

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7th October 2016

Cliff Rees, born into a motorcycle family in 1938, Norton Dominator 88 purchased in 1959. He’s riding the same bike in 2016…you do the numbers!
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Hot 100: The Bonnie which blitzed the 1969 Production TT

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Sam Hewitt

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7th October 2016

Words by Frank Melling; Photos by Carol Melling/Mortons Archive IN 1958, MIKE HAILWOOD and Dan Shorey won the Thruxton long distance race and a year later the Thruxton Bonnevilles were born. Strictly speaking, the name Thruxton only applies to the 49 machines made for homologation purposes in 1964/65. However, it was Triumph practice to put a…
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The real deal: Triumph’s best new Bonnie

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Sam Hewitt

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7th October 2016

WORDS & PHOTOS BY Frank Melling YOU’RE IN A rush, right? You want to go out for a ride, not read a magazine. I’ll come straight to the point. The Triumph Thruxton R is not only the best-ever retro bike made, it’s one of the greatest motorcycles of all time. If you love classics, you’ll…
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‘Double trouble’ in Lincolnshire at George Brown Memorial Sprint

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Sam Hewitt

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24th August 2016

A horde of highly tuned classic sprinters will be unleashed at East Kirby airfield, in Lincolnshire, over the weekend of September 10-11, 2016. The two-day event promises ‘double (engined) trouble’ when the George Brown Memorial Sprint returns to the historic airfield, which is itself steeped in history. The air museum is sited near the…
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Ride around Romney

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Sam Hewitt

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24th August 2016

Veteran and vintage motorcycles are invited to join the upcoming popular Romney Marsh Run. It takes place on Sunday, September 25, 2016 starting and finishing at The Star Inn, St Mary-in-the-Marsh, Romney Marsh, Kent TN29 0BX. The run is open to all marques and is suitable for lower-powered veteran (pre-1915) and flat-tank (pre-1931) motorcycles and…
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