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This month’s OBM, as always is the case, features the latest news, reports from the racetrack, part and tool reviews and ‘how to’ guides. Ensure you get your copy by subscribing to OBM here.
We call OBM the autojumble in your armchair, which it is… but there’s so much more to this publication. It’s like meeting an old friend for a walk down memory lane, with plenty of laughs thrown in and some evocative pictures to mull over.
Pre-loved – and awaiting more love!
While a brand-new outfit might be most people’s dream, sometimes the budget doesn’t stretch that far. Mick Payne takes a look at some second-hand offerings currently available on the market.
A trip to the Dragon Rally in 1966
The annual event that is the Dragon Rally is held in the wintry depths of February in North Wales. It is organised by the Conwy Motorcycle Club and has been held at various locations in the area since 1962. Its popularity continues to attract thousands of hardy riders every year; in 1966 one of that stalwart band was John Edwards.
Clarkushion MKII Hovercraft road test
The legendary Bob Currie, for so many years the driving force behind Motor Cycle and then The Classic MotorCycle magazines, never took himself too seriously and was always up for a quirky challenge. One such came along when he was offered a test of a new and unusual machine, as he reported in Motor Cycle in December 1966…
The remarkable Miss Marjorie Cottle
In the summer of 1928, the Auto Cycle Union announced the teams that would be representing Great Britain in the International Six Days Trial. The A team competing for the International Silver Vase would be M Cottle, L McLean and E Foley with a team including Graham Walker as the reserves. What was unusual – nay, remarkable – about the A team was that the riders were all ladies. What’s more, these three women had won the International Silver Vase the previous year competing equally alongside the men. But then, “what man can do, woman can do – sometimes better,” said Marjorie Cottle. And this little lady would prove that time and time again, as John Milton reports.
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