From The Archive
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The 1982 250cc World MX championship at Hawkstone Park
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Often overshadowed by the 500cc class, the quarter-litre championship has some close racing and exciting action – never more so than when the 1982 250cc World MX championships headed to Hawkstone Park in Shropshire.
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From the archive: Isle of Man TT in the 1950s
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This 1958 Isle of Man TT race shot is of Ernst Degner, a notable defector to the West in 1961 and winner of Suzuki’s first world championship in 1962.
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Classic Racers: Anthony Gobert
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Anthony Gobert was an incredibly talented off-road and Tarmac racer, who should have become a world champion.
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From the archive: the forgotten Coventry Victor
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Both Coventry Victor, the motorcycle depicted, and Pa Cowley, the pictured rider, seem to have been well known in their day, but now, information is scant.
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Foggy’s first World Superbike championship, 30 years on
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It’s three decades since Carl Fogarty became World Superbike champion for the first time.
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From the archive: The travelling motorcycle repair shop
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Mobile service in the southwest of the UK, offered by Plymouth company Chapman’s, is put to work righting a rear tyre ‘issue.’
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The Vincent three-wheeler – the sports car that never was
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The history of motorcycling is littered with ‘what might have beens’. John Milton takes a look at one of the more unusual of those.
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From the archive: Taking the reins
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This impressive device was something of a star on the Moto Guzzi scene in late 1940s/early 1950s Italy.
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Classic Racers: Mick Doohan
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A look at the life and career of five-time consecutive 500 cc World Championships Mick Doohan. Photographs: Nick Nicholls collection at Mortons Archive “That is my bloody traction control mate…” Mick Doohan points to his right wrist, leaving the young journalist asking the question, a tad flustered. It was a relevant question: was Mick using…
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John Hartle: The world champion who never was
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John Milton looks back over the career of John Hartle. There are some motorcycle riders who seem destined to be world champions, for whom it can only be a matter of time before those laurels rest upon their head. If championships were decided upon skill, determination and affability, then John Hartle would have won a…
