Features

Brought back from a 40-year exile in Tasmania and now fully restored – the world’s fastest challenger that didn’t quite make it. Bob Currie tells the story of a very special ‘Special’…

Maurice Keen’s love affair with his Honda Gold Wing spans 30 years and two countries. It all started when he bought a mint low mileage KO model, one of the first batch of Wings imported into the UK, at a local dealership. We tracked him down at his home in Eire

In the hands of its first owner, this Ariel VB covered over quarter of a million miles, usage which obviously took its toll on the machine, but an exacting restoration has given it a new lease of life. Roy Poynting takes up the story…

The programme for the 1922 Olympia Show listed 310 exhibitors of one sort or another, of which no fewer than 94 were displaying complete motor cycles. All the well-known names were there, of course – but also some less well known, but innovative nonetheless

Second part of Rod Gibson’s reassembly of Yamaha’s XT500 single engine

It looks nice and warm at Spa Francorchamps as the grid lines up for round seven of the 1977 500cc world championship. Suzuki could only dream of this sort of pole publicity now…

Well aware of the rumours of exotica hiding within the body of Andy Roberton’s BSA, tester Vic Allan was pleased to find the machine was more a reflection of attention to detail by the builder

When the world was young, bold men rode big bikes and the ground shook at their passing, CDB turns back the clock

Given the many guises this Swedish thumper has been seen in, then it could be a bit of a chameleon, but this big bike is no lizard but a thoroughbred stallion in the hands of Bill Nilsson and Rolf Tibblin

Monark, Husqvarna and Crescent developed the big four-stroke into the ultimate MX tool but, by 1979, such machines had been consigned to the history books, outclassed by the two-strokes. Or had they?