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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…

There’s an honest simplicity about the Ducati 900SS and one which wasn’t lost on me as a bike-mad teen heading into his twenties…

A brave attempt to update and reintroduce the Ariel Square Four in the early 1970s led to an undeniably handsome and interesting machine…

A record crowd of 4000 congregated at Isipingo, near Durban, South Africa, on Sunday, November 21, 1965, to watch British scramblers Derek Rickman and Jerry Scott completely dominate the local opposition when they competed in the second meeting of their South African tour…

The Ariel KH perhaps lacked the glamour of some of the other 500cc twins available in the 1950s, but it had a lot going for it. It’s possible to get too hung up on the colours of classic bikes, you know. Roy Poynting tells the tale…

Capturing a thrilling image of racetrack drama or an instant of motorcycling pleasure on the open road could earn one talented photographer a top-of-the-range Panasonic digital camera worth nearly £600 (including kit)…