Features

Taking a humble 250cc unit four-stroke and turning it into a successful trials machine takes a bit of knowledge and ability. Classic Dirtbike compares two different specialist approaches to the same end – a BSA C15 and Royal Enfield Crusader…

The components for this Rickman Metisse were all bought in the classic period, but never assembled into a complete machine until 2003. It shows that though Don and Derek Rickman were off-road specialists, the twosome also made high quality road kit too…

The 1968 Triumph Bonneville was the culmination of the company’s quest to marry ‘precision, power and performance’ and is arguably its best ever twin…

Things couldn’t have been tighter in the third Anglo-American Match Races, run over a cold and sometimes damp Easter weekend in 1973…

It’s now 30 years since our lives were transformed by Yamaha’s 350 Power Valve. You’d be rightly forgiven for thinking the average RD350-YPVS had a short, frantic but happy life but we’ve found an example with 156,000 miles on its clock!

With Germany readmitted to motorcycle sport’s governing body, the FIM, in 1951 the world could see the BMWs in action again. The factory had not been idle of course and despite very trying circumstances had managed to field teams for a national race series for the previous six years…

The original Japanese superbike, Honda’s CB750, shook the motorcycling market upside down when launched and ran for nine years almost unchanged. Here’s how to tell them apart…

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?

With the route under a blanket of snow, the Sunbeam MCC’s Pioneer Run was cancelled, so let’s look back to the first run in 1930 and wish them well for 2014 when all eligible bikes will be over 100 years old…

British ISDT team manager and AMC’s competition guru Hugh Viney wasn’t prepared to give away any details to The Motor Cycle when it went calling looking for stories to do with that season’s competition…