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Engineering and style combine in an elegant outfit that has graced family occasions for several generations. Mike Lewis takes a closer look at James’s Model 10…

The pairing of a Vincent Comet with a 1980s LE sidecar isn’t one that instantly springs to mind, but this union has led to an outfit which goes well and handles even better…

The late Pete Sole, who owned this Triumph Thunderbird for over 20 years, was well-respected as a pragmatic restorer with a taste for vintage machinery. The Thunderbird was his first postwar heavyweight and he used it regularly, as a workhorse and tourer…

This largely original and unrestored Ariel Square Four spent many of the years since its 1938 build in Malta, where it was owned by one family until the present keeper acquired it…

Norton’s famous – and successful – Commando came in a number of guises, but is any more handsome than the S Type?

Rod Gibson gets to grips with the science of camshaft design, and enters a world full of ramps, overlap, lift and durations. But will it make the bike go faster?

Bimota’s SB2 was both the Italian factory’s and Massimo Tamburni’s first production road bike design. John Nutting tested in the Isle of Man in 1978…

Rod Gibson shows the assembly procedure for Yamaha’s big single, the XT500…