Features

Bob Currie explains the background to the one-and-only 998cc Watsonian-JAP, now added to the National Motorcycle Museum collection. But Watsonian made sidecars, didn’t they?

The cafe racer from Redditch. We test Royal Enfield’s Continental GT

Lawrence Watts shunned publicity but the classic motorcycle and automotive worlds were a better place for his stunning three-dimensional drawings which showed hidden mechanical detail through artwork cutaways…

Ace draughtsman he might have been, but Lawrie didn’t just sit in front of a drawing board, he was often out chasing a story. And, as David Dixon recalls, one of his happiest hunting grounds was the Isle of Man…

Justifiably playing up the retro image, Royal Enfield has gone the whole hog with the new Bullet Classic. Nigel Clark spent a day with one and reckons it just might be the best Bullet yet…

There were many versions of the Ariel Red Hunter, with its first incarnation a ‘sporting’ four-valver that had little relation to what was to come later. The switch to two-valves came quite quickly after, so the template was established…

Aeroplane maker-turned-motorcycle manufacturer Martinsyde had a brief production history. Tim Holmes tells the story of one a rare restoration…

The season long battle waged by Mike Hailwood and Phil Read for the 1967 250cc world championship was as competitive as it gets…

Ingenious projected layout for a horizontally opposed two-stroke, to address the inefficiencies of unburnt fuel being wasted, and a 198cc German luxury lightweight motorcycle from Durkopp

The Suzuki GT750 engine is back in the frame at last, but there’s still some assembly work to do to reach the finishing straight with our restoration. Rod Gibson rolls up his shirt sleeves again…