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Often overlooked by those who revel in more technically ad­vanced machines, the venerable old side-valve Harley-Davidson vee-twins are now coming into their own. Classics with a design so typically American

Neil Murray shatters the Surrey peace when he gets aboard an extremely rare, fire-breathing, road-going replica of their all-conquering Harley-Davidson US dirt track racers of the Seventies…

The Moto Guzzi Lodola pictured here has an enviable competition history. Used by Italian Gianfranco Saini, it participated in two of the prestigious International Six Days Trials during the 60s. Cristiano Morello relates the tale…

If you’d to define the word ‘classic’ in motorcycle terms then Norton’s Manx racing models would be at the top of the list. But, what are they like to ride? OBM popped along to a Master Class at Cadwell Park to find out

Flat track racing opened up when the rules were relaxed to allow aftermarket developed parts. OBM checks out a typical racer from the 1970s

Motorcycles aimed at lady riders were common once. Tim Holmes recounts the story of one such model.

Machines ranging from motorised bicycles at £17 17s to a gold-finished luxury four-cylinder motorcycle at £185

Double adult Watsonian ‘Warwick’ sidecar partnered to Ariel’s Sqaure Four. What a combination!

Polly Palmer, proprietor of Bri-Tie Motorcycles and President of the BSA Owners Club, overhauls the A50/65

Laverda’s spectacular 1000cc Jota triple was the first standard road bike to break the 140mph barrier at MIRA’s proving ground. John Nutting recalls how the bike was developed

Brian Woolley admires Gnome et Rhone’s translation of the British ABC

Indian’s Warrior was brilliantly conceived but poorly executed; a requiem for Indian by Richard Renstrom

The biggest machine in the extensive Small Heath range shows its paces to Motor Cycling

Brian Woolley tells the story of a 500cc BSA sporting single made in 1927

Film stuntman Jim Dowdall bought a rare XA Harley-Davidson and it led him down the road to Wildcat Ridge… Article: Feb 1984

Proprietor of Bri-Tie Motorcycles and President of the BSA OC ‘Polly’ Palmer runs through a simple strip down of the BSA A10 and A65 front suspension

We come to terms with Kawasaki’s latest rip-snorting triple-pot machine from Japan

Yamaha’s YR5 350 ws not as fearsome as we had anticipated but it’s still a good all-round performer

Searing acceleration and good roadholding from Honda’s 750 four

Robin James restores classic motorcycles for a living. But after hours, he continues the development of the Gold Star scrambler he has owned for nearly 15 years

In the land of the big V-twin, Mick Duckworth discovers a British rival to the American icons – Vincent’s 1000cc Rapide

In 1962, before I was born, my father paid £4 for a complete but well used 1928 BSA Sloper. It spent the next nine or so years in boxes with the promise to restore it some day

Sidecarring was – and probably still is – a way of motorcycling life and one you’re either right in to or wouldn’t touch with a bent exhaust pipe. Mick Payne falls in the former category

As the old year ended and the new one began, the journalists of yesteryear – on the Blue Un and Green Un – would round off their riding year with a rundown on what they’d ridden…

Bob Currie tells of Plumstead’s final project, the 800cc double-ohc Norton

It may have given away 50cc to its bigger brother but Yamaha’s RD200 could give it a good run for its money. Neil Murray reckons the early drum braked model is the one to go for

Honda’s CB750F was a desperate attempt to keep its ageing SOHC 750 in the ring with the new DOHC contenders from Kawasaki and Suzuki

1979 Kawasaki KX250 A5: There’s only a handful of Kawasakis regularly competing on the twinshock circuit. Current Bake and Bite 250 champ Richard Wood wonders why…

The smaller cousins of BMW’s big flat twins, the 450 and 650 differed from the rest of the range in many ways. Forget the slow 450, says Neil Murray and look for a Brembo-braked R65

Think of six cylinders and you think Honda CBX – but Benelli got there first with its 750. Later came the 900 version but Neil Murray reckons the first was the real classic