Features

‘Thor’ is an appropriate name for this thundering V-twin. This historic JAP-powered V-twin sprinter was rescued before it was dismantled for its engine. James Robinson takes up the story…

The story so far. In issue 21 six air-cooled, monoshock trials bikes were put through their paces at a secret Derbyshire test location. This issue we’re going to have a closer look at the 1989 Honda RTL…

Registering the first MV double in the Isle of Man for precisely 40 years, Alan Oversby made a perfect return to the Pre-TT Classic after missing the 2011 event with a broken wrist…

Moto Guzzi’s Lodola, made from 1956 to 1966 initial­ly as an overhead cam 175, is physically a small machine, which is the attraction to some owners. Brian Crichton takes flight on this Italian Lark and is charmed by the machine’s forgiving handling and ride…

John Brown reflects on the 35-year racing career of Britain’s race hero, ‘Rocket’ Ron Haslam

To many, the BSA Bantam is familiar and often overlooked – though it still makes an excellent, enjoyable, value for money classic, as explained…

It’s fifty-five years since the first practical Wankel rotary engine was built by NSU in Germany. John Nutting was one of the first journalists to ride a rotary-engined motorcycle when Norton-Villiers-Triumph revealed its ultra-smooth prototype in the 70s…

Mike Dixon’s rare, tuned example of the BSA B30-4, denoted by a small star red star stamped onto the crankcase, was described to him as being similar to the machine campaigned in competitive trials by Marjorie Cottle during 1930…

This Velocette Special takes the engine from the LE and slots it into the rolling chassis of the Valiant, creating a tidy little lightweight…

These are the bikes with the unfinished business. The machines we bought as cocksure young things. Kings of the road, winners of the 1991 Whitby TT. Back then we were fast and reckless and we needed the bike to match. Back then we could almost get our knees down – some of us even wore…