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Bertie Simmonds enjoys three subtly different versions of the V7 modern retro Moto Guzzi theme and comes away impressed. A change is as good as a rest, goes the old adage, and today is a

What made Bathurst’s Easter races the most important motorcycle destination in Australia? In the second feature of their two-part series, HAMISH COOPER and PHIL AYNSLEY go back to the Eighties to find out. Greg Pretty

David Wallace’s documentary film about the Armoy Armada is an all-time biking classic.

BSA’s chassis is okay but Cheney went further.

Without a shadow of doubt, they were the ‘dream team’ of Machin and Saunders garage.

This is the first part of a series of new features, shining a light on some of the biggest and best players in the Classic Racing world.

The last time a British made motorcycle won the SSDT was in 1969, when Greeves works rider Bill Wilkinson lifted the J R Alexander Trophy after a phenomenal week.

Something of an evolution of the official Suzuki square four it might have been, but the TSR did at least look to new avenues of frame design to keep competitive. The name was bond… Ciba-Geigy

The finest product of one of Britain’s most established racing dynasties, Mick Boddice was rarely out of the results for over four decades of racing. Arguably he kept his best until last, as he recounted

We love getting your nostalgic snaps of you back in the day with your steed!

Some road-going classics are forever linked with the racers that made them famous – and no more so than the Eddie Lawson Replica.

A last-minute purchase changes the fortunes of Project GSX-R10/11/12, shortly before its big test. Former stunt rider and tester Martin ‘Wild’ Child tells all. The more you see, the more you find. And then buy.

In one of his most frank interviews ever, Carl Fogarty lifts the lid on what he had to do to become one of Britain’s most successful bike racers ever. Words: Bertie Simmonds Photographs: Don Morley

Triumph seems to be on a roll at the moment, combining the best qualities of existing models with the nostalgia of the past. We rode the latest: the Speed Twin. Triumph’s modern classic range seems

Steve Wise was the greatest all-round rider in US motorcycle racing. Across 11 seasons (73-83), Steve won AMA Motocross and Supercross races, stood on the podium of the Daytona 200 with Roberts and Lawson, won

In the second excerpt from his book: Moto GP a photographic celebration, Phil Wain concentrates on those brutal rivalries that pushed past the politeness of the sport and accelerated it to another level. KEVIN SCHWANTZ

Certain bike-and-rider combinations seem made for each other, to the point where it’s hard to mention one without thinking of the other. Carl Fogarty and the Ducati 916; Mick Doohan and the Honda NSR500; Valentino

What made Bathurst’s Easter races the most important motorcycle destination in Australia? In a two-part series, writer HAMISH COOPER and photographer PHIL AYNSLEY go back to the Seventies and Eighties to find out. An unlikely

What is our fascination with a good paint scheme or sponsor’s race replica? Scottie gets his brushes out Win on a Sunday and sell them on a Monday isn’t just a cheesy cliché that applies

Shane Byrne’s Ducati one week, Bruce Anstey’s MotoGP inspired Honda RC213V-S the next – Peter Crawford discovered what it was like to ride the 1960s and 70s equivalents while chatting to Ray Knight, one of

Four more World Championships in the Honda years, the Daytona 200, F1 car racing and the Le Mans 24 Hours – and then that Isle of Man TT comeback… Words: Bruce Cox Photographs: Don Morley,

A classic name in two-stroke expansion chamber circles is back in business ALLSPEED EXHAUSTS are a brand that any two-stroke junkie will be well aware of. For many they were the choice of a generation

In fact, I’d go as far as to call him the mad professor of two-strokes Down Under, writes Jeff Ware.

Since the May 2018 issue of CMM we’ve been following our Aussie mate Jeff Ware’s loving restoration of his great, late mate Helmut Phillip’s Suzuki RG500.

It may have been nearly 200bhp and needed extra weight adding to get up to the 130kg minimum, but the Elf 500 was born of sidecar tech. Kind of. The heart of any motorcycle is

If there’s a better-looking motorcycle out there

Until 1981 many looked down on 125s with scorn; with a change in the law eighth of a litre bikes were the new teenage icons of desire.