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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)…

By the early 60s, Norton was beginning to make engines which were capable of exploiting the performance of its world-renowned frames, and the 650cc Dominator was one such bike…

At the time Suzuki’s GT550 was probably the ideal two-stroke triple but has somehow become one of the 70s most overlooked machines. We take another look…

Despite a few minor niggles, and the motorcycle trade’s reference to bike as the ‘hand grenade’, because it went a short distance then exploded, the BSA Starfire was a capable 250. But just a shame that it was 10 years too late…

Hedging your bets is never a bad thing to do and if you happen to be Honda reeling from the shock of getting your first V-four spectacularly wrong it might almost look like a lifeline…

Triumph’s SD was based upon the despatch rider’s favourite, the Model H, but used Triumph’s own three-speed gearbox rather than the H’s Sturmey Archer and had chain replacing the belt final drive…