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Sometimes bikes are amazingly successful when there is nothing really spectacular about them: take the Honda 250 Super Dream. ?There was nothing fundamentally or seriously wrong with the machine but neither was there anything magical about it…

The most famous win in the Scottish Six Days Trial – the SSDT – is likely to be the one-dab win by Gordon Jackson in 1961…

The Carole Nash Great Scottish Bike Show returns to Lanark Agricultural Centre for its second year – bigger, better and more entertaining. Make a date!

The 33rd Carole Nash International Classic MotorCycle Show at Stafford has always been the biggest draw in the world for classic motorcycles, with the best club and trade stands, plus celebrities and a massive autojumble, inside and out…..

The Royal Enfield Continental was aimed at the younger rider, with its designers aware of what prospective riders would be looking for. It had issues, most notably with the five speed gearbox, but it also had many good points…

It’s early May, 1963 and a bunch of bikers are arriving at the Dorchester, in Park Lane, London. So what’s happening? Here’s what Motor Cycle had to say…

Kiwi style ‘TT racing’ in 1950 was like a cross between TT racing as practiced in Britain and America; many of the top running machines were cammy Velos, Norton and Ajays, plus GP Triumphs, as used in the Isle of Man road races, though the course was often more dirt and grit covered, as for…

For some building a special means searching out the right parts from this catalogue or that brochure, others take a more involved route and make most of the bike themselves. Tim Britton meets up with such an engineer who turned his hand to his BSA Gold Star…

Probably the biggest and most important event in the motorcycling calendar in the 1950s was the Earls Court Show, held annually. Manufacturers displayed their wares to the buying public, who were presented with the opportunity to see everything that was on offer to them – and some things that weren’t…