Sammy Miller Museum

[Peter Cooke]

Some interesting bikes here.

Visiting the Sammy Miller Museum

[DEEBS47Chief1991]

Wow. Some great bikes in that collection. Many different ways to power a motorcycle.

[JoJo357]

Some interesting bikes here.

Visiting the Sammy Miller Museum

Thank You Peter. A lot of beautiful ingenious iron in Sammy's collection. Here's a video of the one~off 1929 AJS inline four from the Sammy Miller Museum.

https://youtu.be/tqYchLmjfWY?si=IYtHKCREY8Ga_5Lf <------1929 AJS Four.

Sammy Miller <-----



*M.A.D.*

[Steve Slocombe]

I've been round the Sammy Miller Museum two or three times and it's quite a spectacle. Mostly British bikes, like the Natioinal Motorcycle Museum near Birmingham, plus trials and other competition bikes as Sammy was a very successful off road star back in the day. I've also done the Banbury Run three times on a 1930 VL, 1929 Henderson and 1914 Douglas. The Henderson has nearly twice the engine capacity of that AJS prototype and I learnt it is too fast and heavy for those English country lanes. The Banbury Run for pre-1931 motorcycles is usually in June and the Pioneer Run for pre-1915 bikes in October. The VMCC probably still has a loaner bike program for AMCA members, so you have time to organise one of those runs for that 2026 trip you always wanted to make.

[chuckthebeatertruck]

I spent a fantastic day at the museum and with Sammy and Jim in June. Sammy turned 92 the other day and was a delight to talk with for a moment.

I did a whole review of the museum in the September 2025 badger heritage chapter newsletter. It should be available for download from the amca newsletter archive. I shot 670 photos in 5 hours. . .

i also offered a review to our national magazine, but forgot to send it to David Edwards. Perhaps I should. It really is a spectacular collection of rarities.

[chuckthebeatertruck]

I've been round the Sammy Miller Museum two or three times and it's quite a spectacle. Mostly British bikes, like the Natioinal Motorcycle Museum near Birmingham, plus trials and other competition bikes as Sammy was a very successful off road star back in the day.

Very successful = the single most winning professional motorcycle competitor in history with more than 1400 professional victories, 11 British trial titles, etc.

He also was one of the few road racers Geoff duke was concerned might eclipse him. . .and oh lord could Sammy hustle a nsu around a street circuit.