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  • Time travel: Horace Meadowcroft’s motorcycle showroom, exactly 100 years ago – Readers’ Letters

    Time travel: Horace Meadowcroft’s motorcycle showroom, exactly 100 years ago – Readers’ Letters

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    I thought that this photograph, taken exactly 100 years ago this July, may be of interest to readers of OBM.

  • Throwback: John Surtees at the BBC

    Throwback: John Surtees at the BBC

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    Back in August 1957, John Surtees took viewers for a ride when the BBC’s television programme, ‘Let’s go motor cycling’.

  • Opinion: riding classic bikes

    Opinion: riding classic bikes

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    We’re all looking forward to getting back in the saddle as the weather warms up and restrictions are lifted. Here’s

  • Hislop vs Foggy: Best battle in TT history?

    Hislop vs Foggy: Best battle in TT history?

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    Arguably the Norton Rotary racer’s finest hour – Steve Hislop winning the 1992 Senior TT.

  • HL lore

    HL lore

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    With reference to your Curtis story, Yamaha were never intimately involved in the HL project. Hallman and Lundquist initially experimented with a Husqvarna frame and a standard XT engine before having Profab build them frames

  • And Cadwell still rolls on!

    And Cadwell still rolls on!

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    I have been most interested in the photos that you have been printing over the last few issues of Cadwell Park riders of the early days. Although I can’t with any certainty put names to

  • Suzuki’s recreational vehicle

    Suzuki’s recreational vehicle

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    I really liked Steve Cooper’s article on the TC range. As a bit of a side order I have owned RV 125cc sand bikes since 1974. They came in three sizes – 50cc, 90cc and

  • Muc-off Star Letter: Cleaning up at the Scott

    Muc-off Star Letter: Cleaning up at the Scott

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    At the celebratory dinner for the 105th anniversary of the Scott Trial at the Spa Hotel, Ripon, North Yorkshire, on November 16, Alan Lampkin was a superb Master of Ceremonies, while Nick Jefferies gave a

  • Missing men

    Missing men

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    Dear CR It is nice to see the photograph Nick Nicholls took at the start of the 125cc TT in 1961. And it is nice too, to have mentioned most of the riders, some of

  • Setting it straight

    Setting it straight

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    Dear CR Regarding the story in part one of the formation of the CRMC on page 77 of the November/December edition of Classic Racer and the photographs on page 79 – the guy in all

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