Features

France hosted the 1923 Grand Prix, on a 14 mile long circuit, and although the French contingent provided a strong challenge, British machines and riders won out…

Theresa Wallach returns to London in the first week of December 1950, having covered 30,002 miles in the USA and Canada on her Norton International…

The Goodman family – manufacturers of Velocette – stopped making motorcycles circa 1970, right? Well, not quite. In 1998, Simon Goodman, the great grandson of the firm’s founder, made one last machine, and thanks to Neil Redley we’ve scooped a test on this unique machine…

‘Specials’ are in a class of their own, particularly when it comes to taking on someone else’s unfinished project. Mike Lewis looks at the marriage of Ariel’s 997cc four-cylinder motor with Norton’s fine-handling wideline ‘Featherbed’ chassis…

Rod Ker is reminded of breezing along through a blue haze of burnt two stroke oil when he rides the smallest of Suzuki’s three-cylinder trio…

It wasn’t just England, Australia and America discovering the delights of dirt track racing in the 1920s. They were at it in the Dutch East Indies too…

Between testing road bikes in the 1970s and 80s, John Nutting was occasionally invited to try racing machines, such as Yamaha’s stunning TZ750 two-stroke four. It was a sobering experience…

Classic Motorcycle Mechanics photographer Joe Dick here is a V4-lover… but unfortunately he stacked his beloved NC30 and has had to do an eBay sweep to get the requisite parts to build his baby back to its best. What could go right?

On the hottest day of the year so far in the UK, Swede Ake Jonsson tackled the 1971 British 500cc MX championship at Farleigh Castle in Wiltshire with grit and determination to blow the series wide open…

The second generation of big Japanese twins wasn’t really necessary – they’d already leapfrogged the formula. Strange then, that they couldn’t help but build some…