Features

The stylish Norton International was a mainstay of the Norton range for over 25 years, affording road riders the opportunity to straddle a close relative of the famous Manx…

Few motorcycles look better than an overhead camshaft Norton single; it’s the truth. Whether a vintage CS1 or a late Manx, each and every one is a stunner. And of course they have the performance to back up the pizazz…

Yamaha took suspension to new levels when it devised what was then generally referred to as a cantilever system but nowadays would be termed monoshock…

Oil pumps are usually hidden in the depths of an engine. Unfortunately the age-old saying ‘out of sight, out of mind’ often applies. As they are the heart of our motorcycle engines, lubricating vital bearings and other moving surfaces, they deserve regular health checks…

The BSA A65 Lightning Clubman was the top of the range unit construction BSA, in many ways the replacement for the Rocket Gold Star as BSA’s twin-cylinder racer on the road…

Ace restorer John Guy is well known on the show circuit, for his collection of vintage and post-vintage machines, six of which are SOS two-strokes. To find John as the owner of the featured French-built Magnat-Debon, then, was a bit of a surprise…

The 125 that escaped Suzuki’s crusher. John Nutting describes how the exotic Suzuki RS68 125cc four, the last works racer of the 60s, was liberated from obscurity

Before supplies dry up splash some cash and buy a Honda CB450. No, not the later uber-Dream from Brazil but the bike that scared the British bike industry witless…

Ossa ace Mick Andrews scored his second win in the prestigious Scottish Six Days Trial in 1971…

This late Velocette Venom is a fine hard-working example of what to many is the ultimate British single…