Sam Hewitt

National Twinshock Trials Championship

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Sam Hewitt

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28th June 2018

The Kia Motors UK backed trials series goes from strength to strength and the editor’s own club – Castleside MCC recently held a round at Lambshield Farm in Co Durham. Many of the series’ riders made the trek north and had an enjoyable day. Bill McKeown was on hand with his camera to catch the…
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Classic action in Northampton

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Sam Hewitt

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26th June 2018

“You should come along to our meeting at Woodford in April,” said Colin Hill of Northampton Classic Club Ltd when CDB admired the line-up of classic MX machinery on the stand at Telford Show last February. “We’ll have all sorts of bikes there for your photographer.” So, we went along and what a great couple…
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Scottish Classic Grand National

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Sam Hewitt

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20th June 2018

Things are hotting up now for the second Scottish Grand National in the superb grounds of Drumlanrig Castle on July 14/15, organised by the Galloway MCC. The latest information from the club makes good reading, first of all the guest of honour, Brad Lackey is fired up and ready for the weekend, there’s to be an interview session…
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Edition Montesa for Highland Classic

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Sam Hewitt

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12th June 2018

It’s not long now until the Highland Classic Two-day Trial on the Alvie Estate near Aviemore – it’s on June 9/10, 2018, and this year’s theme will be 50 years of the Montesa Cota in the UK. To continue the theme of 50 years, guest of honour will be 1968 Scottish Trials Champion Douglas Bald.…
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Alternative thinking

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Sam Hewitt

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8th June 2018

It’s amazing how often chance plays a part in this magazine world, at least when it comes to inspiration for features. What I mean by that is a chance comment by someone at an event where they recall old so and so who built a this, that or the other and it’s still around, or,…
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In the Pinkie

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Sam Hewitt

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1st June 2018

With its ancestry in the cantilever trials bike Mick Andrews developed for Yamaha in the mid-Seventies the TY 250 Mono took the feet-up world by storm when it appeared on the scene in the Eighties. Here was a clubman bike that could tackle the world – in semi trail ‘S’ form it was mass produced…
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That moment in time

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Sam Hewitt

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25th May 2018

For Canadian Al Keith the world changed at the Canadian National MX events he competed in during the early Eighties. How so? It was at these events that he first set actual eyes on Yamaha’s OW factory racers and life would never be the same again. Al wanted one, the MX world wanted one, the…
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Bultaco nostalgia

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Sam Hewitt

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20th May 2018

Plans are pretty much finalised for Westmorland Motor Club’s 2018 Bultaco gathering at Holme Farm, Middleton near Sebergh in Cumbria and by the time you read this the event will be just a few weeks away. It’s being held on Saturday – that’s right a Saturday – June 16, 2018 and is to be sponsored…
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Our survey said?

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Sam Hewitt

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20th May 2018

Surveys are not a new thing, though with the advent of the internet they became easier to present to us and equally as easy for us to ignore. It seems no matter what we do, or where we do it, somebody, somewhere, wants to know our opinion on whatever it is we’ve purchased or used…
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Issue 47

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Sam Hewitt

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17th May 2018

Contents In Balance ‘Our survey said?’ We ponder the benefits of surveys and encourage you to do ours. News, views and reviews If it’s happening, going to happen or happened this is where you’ll read about it and the season’s hotting up. You need… You really do need a Husqvarna CR390 in your shed and…
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