Sam Hewitt

Drayton Triumph

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Sam Hewitt

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10th December 2017

Turning up at the start of a trial with something new always creates a bit of interest. Blyth motorcycle dealer and trials rider, John Charlton, did just that when he arrived at the start of Castleside Trials Club’s round of CDB’s Northern British Trials Championship with a Drayton Triumph Twin instead of his usual C15.…
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KTM found

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Sam Hewitt

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7th December 2017

Exciting news from Hartwig Kamarad, director of the Motorrad Trial Museum in Ohlsdorf, Austria, is that one of the four 320 KTM trials bikes built by the factory is now in the museum. Thought lost, it was actually in a barn belonging to a friend of Hartwig’s. Of the four machines, one went to German…
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Hedlund

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Sam Hewitt

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4th December 2017

There is a fascination with massive non-unit construction four-stroke MX machines which goes beyond any real reasoning. I am unashamedly a fan of these often brutal looking motorcycles even though I’m way too young to have seen them raced in their heyday. By the time this Hedlund was created the day of the dinosaur in…
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Toughsheet Twinshock Awards

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Sam Hewitt

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30th November 2017

The awards presentation for the Toughsheet National Twinshock MX Championships took place recently at the Moat House Hotel, Stoke, where all the silverware from a successful seven-round series was handed out. More than 150 riders, family and friends attended the evening, and the ones blessed with hair (not many), were able to let it down,…
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2018 Moidart Peninsula Road Run

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Sam Hewitt

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22nd November 2017

Organisers Andrew Johnstone and John McCrink are pleased to announce that the ninth Moidart Peninsula Classic Motorcycle Road Run will take place on Thursday, May 3, 2018. Open to motorcycles made up until 1979, each year an increasing number of genuine enthusiasts on an amazing variety of classic and vintage machinery make the pilgrimage to…
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Issue 45

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Sam Hewitt

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21st November 2017

In balance The opportunity to build a shed from scratch rather than inherit something built by someone else is a rare opportunity indeed. News, views and reviews Our regular look at what’s happening in the off-road world, events to go to, series updates. Against the tide By the mid Sixties the world had decided lightweight…
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In balance

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Sam Hewitt

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21st November 2017

Loading the shed The prospect of planning a new workshop is exciting. How often do any of us have the chance to lay out a workshop from scratch? A chance to build what we want rather than have, something that is shared with all sorts of other things deemed important in modern life. I dare…
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Is bigger always better?

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Sam Hewitt

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15th November 2017

If anyone had said to me in the Seventies “what you need son is a 125…” I’d have laughed them out of the place, I knew what I needed, it was the red and black Model 199 325 Bultaco Sherpa, because that’s what ‘Vesty’ and the Lampkins were riding and winning on, or so it…
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An off-road feast for all at Telford

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Sam Hewitt

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14th November 2017

Just in case you haven’t already got the date carved in stone or pinned to your workshop wall, the 2018 Hagon sponsored Classic Dirt Bike Show at Telford International Centre takes place on February 17/18. Inside the three halls will be the best of the off-road scene, but of course what constitutes ‘the best’ will…
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Our five-step guide to get into motocross

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Sam Hewitt

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25th October 2017

The mega four-day-long Dirt Bike Show in partnership with MOTUL is now less than a week away – so get your dirt mojo in gear. Thousands of riders and enthusiasts will pack into Warwickshire’s Stoneleigh Park from Thursday to Sunday, October 26-29, for what is Europe’s biggest indoor off-road event. The show isn’t just for…
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