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This amazing photograph of a Wallis-JAP at Brooklands is noteworthy for its unusual subject, and its clarity. The rider-designer, George Wallis, was later the man who initiated the concept which spawned the Ariel 3.

Despite the economic hardships of the time and the fact the exchange rate was terrible, a European tour was still undertaken.

With an overhead camshaft engine and fully circulating oil system, plus sparkling performance, the first generation ‘cammy’ Velocettes certainly make a case.

Dictionaries inform the sidecar is: ‘a jaunting-car; small car attached to the side of a motorcycle; kind of cocktail.’ We’ll forget jaunting-cars and cocktails, but how did the world arrive at the sidecar? And what came before?

Forget about motorcycling being a lads’ world. There are – and always have been – plenty of women riding fast and far.

John Newbold, born in Jacksdale, Nottinghamshire on December 14 1952, but he was raised in South Normanton where his parents ran a butcher’s shop.

Black Friday is here and we’ve been busy driving down the prices on some of our favourite products for a limited time only.

There are many great books about classic motorcycling which are packed with fascinating technical information and critical dates in a bike’s production life. Classic Superbikes, by Frank Melling, isn’t one of them.

It is a wonderfully provocative and positive name, Sunbeam, isn’t it?

Tributes to the late Barry Sheene have been paid on what would have been his 70th birthday. Here are some of the best photos of Sheene in action.