Features

Manx born and raised, it’s entirely fitting that TT star Conor Cummins’ Classic TT debut will be made on a quad of Tony Dunnell’s Manx Nortons this year. Bruce Wilson spends an hour with Conor to get the inside line…

What is the Bertie Simmonds doing? Just when we thought he had his project for the year, he seems to have gotten another one. Stupid? You bet…

Family touring, with a heavy 1950s accent. The modes of transport could really be hardly any more typically ‘early-to-mid 1950s, as a big Panther single (probably a couple of years old at the time of the photograph) pauses for breath, while down below, a steam train passes…

Eighty years ago, The Motor Cycle took BSA’s Model G on a world tour to test its rugged high mileage abilities. This well-used example, discovered half-buried in sand and cement dust, still clocks up big miles in all weathers, validating the magazine’s original test…

You’ll have noticed the back cover adverts for Yesterdays over the last few months, featuring some fantastic machines. We decided it was worth a visit to meet the men behind the name – and have a look at some of their motorcycles…

This bike may have looked like a 1999 Kawasaki W650 when Sean Kynnersley bought it but after just five weeks on the bench he’d transformed it into this stunning hand built, road-going flat tracker…

Fondly remembering his working days on Motor Cycle with Vic Willoughby and Bob Currie, Pete Kelly rifles through Mortons’ archives to find Bob’s imaginative description of a Velocette racer that never was…

In the cash-strapped times of the late 70s recession the East German MZ TS models were the machines of choice for wallet-savvy motorcyclists…

The London to Edinburgh Reliability Trial was celebrated in the June 11, 1914 issue of The Motor Cycle with a report from a ‘competitor’s point of view’…

Triumph’s Bonneville was, for many, at about its peak in 1969 as it had the twin leading shoe front brake and all the other refinements gradually introduced through the 1960s and was still pre oil-in-frame. This US spec example from that season underlines the point…