Sam Hewitt

  • Ten times World Champion to take star role at Stafford

    Ten times World Champion to take star role at Stafford

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    The most successful sidecar racer of all time, Steve Webster, will be Guest of Honour at the Carole Nash Motorcycle Mechanics Show this October.

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  • Five things you didn’t know about Apollo 11’s return

    Five things you didn’t know about Apollo 11’s return

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    Fifty years on, the programme to take the first humans to the moon is arguably our single greatest achievement.

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  • DIRTPRODUCTS

    DIRTPRODUCTS

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    Do you make, import or otherwise supply bits and pieces, clothing or other stuff the world of off-road motorcycling needs to know about? If so, then your product could be on pages 50/51 of CDB Issue 51. Contact Helen in advertising on 01507 529574 or Tim Britton on 07739 615605 or [email protected] Top tank The…

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  • Classic Dirt Bike Show 2019

    Classic Dirt Bike Show 2019

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    Three halls of stupendous dirt bikes and a dinner to boot! Words Tim Britton Pics Tim Britton and Fiona Watson Does anyone doubt that the annual February gathering at Telford International Centre for the Hagon Shocks-backed Classic Dirt Bike Show is the non-riding event of the year for our scene? Even on set-up day there’s…

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  • Three not of a kind

    Three not of a kind

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    As CDB isn’t a monthly mag, rebuilds happen at a glacial pace,so we’ve changed things about this time… Words Tim Britton and Jerry Thurston Pics Tim Britton, Fiona Watson and Jerry Thurston Meet Jumbo An evening or two rooting through the pile of bits to check what was missing or damaged revealed that the catalogue…

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  • Best in show

    Best in show

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    Bultaco’s Mk3 Matador put up impressive medal-winning performances when introduced in the Sixties and this one is still winning in 2019. Words and pics: Tim Britton Media Ltd As we photographed his bike Damon Wood confessed he hadn’t actually restored it and the credit for the majority of the work had to go to Philippe…

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  • Logical development

    Logical development

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    If your 410 MXer isn’t doing the job… go to 500. Words and Pics: Peter Henshaw Terry Pickering, it’s fair to say, has a thing about AJS Stormers, owning several of the two-stroke 250s and 370s. Growing up with AJS development engineer David ‘Fluff’ Brown as a friend of the family, it could hardly be…

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  • Enthusiasm undamped

    Enthusiasm undamped

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    It was a wet old weekend for the Carole Nash International Classic MotorCycle Show. Words and pics: Tim Britton It’s England, it’s spring, it could be fine, warmand sunny or it could be as it was at the Carole Nash Classic MotorCycle Show when CDB popped in on Saturday, April 27 – a bit damp.…

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  • It’s a Belgian Blitz…

    It’s a Belgian Blitz…

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    …screamed the headline, but Dave Watson pulled the Brits up to fourth in the 1980 MX d’Nations. Words: Tim BrittonPics: Nick Nicholls Collection at Mortons Archive Choosing material from the vast archive at the CDB head office is a monumental task, not because it’s difficult to find images to put in the magazine, but because…

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  • 60 years ago

    60 years ago

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    An anniversary that seems to have been forgotten is Roy Peplow’s win in the 1959 SSDT, the first win of such a major event for a lightweight motorcycle. The accepted wisdom of the time said only a big bike could win such an event as the SSDT, as the smaller machines, such as Peplow’s 200cc…

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