Features

As a reader of CMM magazine, we already know that you have firm opinions and excellent judgement – and now we’d love you to tell us what you like and don’t like about the magazine, and why…

The August 16, 1923 issue of The Motor Cycle announced that the Grigg Motor & Engineering Company in Winchester Road, Twickenham would be marketing a range of single-cylinder and V-twin engines under the patents of Messrs Bacher and Hellow, who were responsible for B and H engines…

Following the success of the GSX series and Katanas, Suzuki upped the ante with the first GSXRs. A thinly disguised street legal race bike, the GSXR750 was an instant success…

Tighten up your chin strap, slip on some cool shades and politely advise your cardio-vascular system that it’s about to get a good sized dollop of adrenaline; it’s Kawasaki 350cc street scrambler time…

The overhead camshaft Norton is one of those motorcycles; it looks fast standing still. It could go a bit, too…

In a cross between a fairy story and a romantic novel Malc Wheeler tells the tale of the Moto Cinelli Ducati TT2 and his reunion with it 25 years on. Rose tinted spectacles are required to enjoy this story to the full

Back in 1953 people who customised motorcycles were known as ‘bitza-builders’ but as John Mills, writing in the August 20 issue of The Motor Cycle noted, the term didn’t always reflect the quality of machine built from various bits…

Rare, sought after and well engineered. The Henderson was a fast motorcycle, adopted by police forces in vast numbers…

SOS machines of any age are few and far between, as they were built in such limited numbers. So the even rarer vintage-era machines fall into the ‘hen’s teeth’ category…

A four-valve sporting single seemed out of character for Triumph in 1921. Bob Currie explains the background