Concept bikes… those machines you see at bike shows which may (or may not) make it into production. Alan Dowds checks out some of the craziest.

After a long lay-up, this 1972 Moto Guzzi V7 Sport is back on the road and enjoying a second wind, though still sporting much of its original patina.

The greatest rivalry of Valentino Rossi’s career was with Max Biaggi. Now that both men have retired and the dust has settled, Classic Racer discovers why they hated each other with such intensity.

This month in Classic Motorcycle Mechanics, Kawasaki’s ZX-7R, the best 750 sports bikes from 1985 to 2005, Buyer’s Guide for Suzuki’s GT250, and much more!

The "2023 Spring Online Only Auction" is now on - there are vintage & modern motorcycles from multiple estates for sale with "No Reserve"!

Suzuki Live will return for 2023, with a full weekend of activity planned at Cadwell Park on July 15-16, including track sessions, a new adventure bike zone, trade stands and displays, plus special guests.

When the Hesketh superbike was launched, Tim Bolton knew that he could never afford one. But little did he know that, within a few short years, he would bebuilding his own from scratch…

The catalogue for the upcoming auction on April 13 is varied and of outstanding interest!

John Kocinski is a legend and a double world champion, winning the 250cc Grand Prix world title in 1990, but also the World Superbike series in 1997.

All motorcycles are interesting, as well we know. But some come with history that brings an extra element to their stories. This is one such machine, as John Milton discovers.

Nitro-burning Ducatis, a short-stroke Pantah that revved to over 14,000rpm, one of the very first 851 Superbike engines housed in a custom frame. Things got a little crazy in New Zealand in the 1980s. And then came Robert Holden to ride them.

One of only three Model 95s that the Panther Owners Club is aware survives. Sandy Bloy’s example is a great study in restoration, while keeping a bike’s story on its sleeve

We are pleased to announce a real legend will be at April’s The Classic MotorCycle Show at Stafford.

Bicester Heritage welcomes its flagship Flywheel event back on June 17-18 – a weekend of classic wings and wheels – in both four and two-wheeled variety.

The National Motorcycle Museum announced yesterday that it has signed a merchandise dealer agreement with the resurgent BSA company.

Record-breaking motorcycle adventurer Nick Sanders’ new film will have its Bristol premiere at Fowlers on Friday, March 24.

The Hampson Auctions team are delighted to announce details of our first dedicated 2-wheel sale – our Auction of Classic Motorcycles and Scooters, to be held at Mavericks, Holywell on 13th May 2023.

We look at a fantastic restoration of one of Francis-Barnett’s more outlandish models

As the eco movement gains more credence and applies pressure to the motorsports world perhaps there is room for change.

What's on in March?

Although largely unknown outside its home country, this neat little machine has ended up in the UK, via a famous Northern Irish 1960s Manx Norton tuner.

We love bikes. We love fettling them and riding them, but... some classics are big and heavy, and we’re not getting any younger. So what can we do about it? Steve Cooper finds out…

A main stand gives up the ghost, leaving Hutch no choice but to get the heavy tools out.

Some-time CMM contributor Rob Bean is going racing with his old Trumpet – and his race bike build and escapades will be featured in CMM and Classic Racer.

Although the calendar is full of events of all natures, there’s always room to welcome a new one... and that’s how Kev Riley found himself at Betteshanger Park in Kent one hot August weekend.

Was the last of the triples the best of the bunch? Frank Westworth thinks so. Well, he thinks so today, at least.

France’s Bol d’Or 24-hour race celebrates its centenary this year. Here, we have a brilliant action photograph from the 1924 edition, where solos and sidecars ran together.

Yamaha were not following the herd back in the early 1970s. When some of their rivals were frantically developing sporty fours to replace their smoky, thirsty two-strokes, Yamaha went in a different direction technologically. It was a bit of a blind alley, but they were at least ploughing their own furrow. And that’s enough mixing of metaphors.

The Oxford English Dictionary describes symbiosis as “an interaction between two different organisms living in close physical association.” Some motorcycles are like that. They feel like living things and become an extension of the rider. And the rider can feel as if they have become a part of the machine, to create a single collective being.

Italian sports bikes of the 1970s seem to be defined by big brawny bruisers like the three-cylinder Laverda Jota and L-twin Ducati 900SS.

If you fancy the idea of a classic road racer, a Velocette Venom could be ideal – but read this first.

My first impression while checking out the BSA B31 was that it looked solid. There’s not really any other way to describe it.

Fifty years on, the programme to take the first humans to the moon is arguably our single greatest achievement.

Sometimes pure gold appears on the auction scene Fancy something spectacular in your garage or possibly front room given the condition and desirability of the motorcycles in this collection? If so then you really do

“It’s a sensible question especially since I’ve owned this particular one for 14 years.”

Honda went above and beyond to win production superbikes races in the early 1980s. This was the first ever true Honda proddie homologation racer.

Endurance Legends has been confirmed for May 12-13, 2018, at Donington Park. This promises to build on the inaugural event from 2017 to showcase classic endurance racing at its best. The organisers Classic Bike Track

Kevin Schwantz’s 1989 Pepsi Suzuki RGV500 was restored to full working order at the recent Motorcycle LIVE event. The iconic Grand Prix machine was completely stripped, before being carefully and meticulously restored by Team Classic

Triple British Superbike Champion Niall Mackenzie and World Superbike Champion Neil Hodgson have become insurance salesmen! With many race and former race stars fronting up big bike insurance companies for their own gain, this is

The 25th anniversary of the Honda FireBlade (or Fireblade post-2004) was in 2017 and a new Mortons’ bookazine is coming along in 2018 to celebrate this fact. Written by our own editor Bertie Simmonds, it

There’s a fabulous, eclectic range of machines on offer at Osenat’s sale, at the Salon Moto Legende in Paris, on Saturday, November 25. Ranging from a host of engines – mainly from French machines –

EX-WORLD Superbike star Aaron Slight showed that he really is ‘The People’s Champion’ as thousands of visitors packed into the huge annual event to meet their hero and take advantage of the autumn sun. Compere

From May next year, MOTs for cars and bikes 40 years or older will be abolished. That means that any bike registered before or around 1978 will be exempt from the yearly safety check and

It’s just over a month until the world’s biggest and best celebration of classic motorcycles comes to Staffordshire County Showground. The Carole Nash Classic Mechanics Show takes place over the weekend of October 14-15 and

VISITORS to the upcoming Carole Nash Classic Motorcycle Mechanics Show – October 14-15 – will have the opportunity to get up close to a variety of rare Suzukis, including the two RG500s which Barry Sheene

It was another amazing weekend at the Bikes At The Bay event, down in sunny Kent. The August weather just about played ball and an amazing array of machines turned up over the two-day event

You really can’t miss Europe’s very best off-road event: the Dirt Bike Show! The event is once again being held across four days – October 26-29 – at its traditional home of Stoneleigh Park in

The Brightona Charity Riders show takes place once more on the front at the famous seaside town and it’s going to be one helluva event. This is a one-day charity event, taking place on Sunday,

The extended rebuild of Team Obsolete’s 1964 Honda RC 165 250cc six cylinder Grand Prix racing motorcycle is finally complete and will return to the Isle of Man for the 2017 Classic TT to take

Advertisement feature Two of Barry Sheene’s iconic World Championship winning Suzuki RG500 motorcycles will be on display at the end of this month during the annual Cumbria Steam Gathering. Alongside Sheene’s machines, The Broke FMX

If you’re a fan of the 1990s when World Superbikes was at its best, then you can’t miss this October’s  CMM Stafford Show. Why? Well, Kiwi Aaron Slight – undoubtedly the best rider never to win the

With our Stan Stephens special on the super square-four Suzuki RG400 and 500 starting this month, we thought we’d show you an as-new, unregistered 1987 RG500 Gamma. She sits proudly with the Suzuki class of

BMW’s new R nine T Racer and Pure have been launched and this is what Benjamin J Kubas Cronin from our sister title Fast Bikes, had to say when he went along for a ride.

Island Racer 2017 is the ultimate guide to this year’s TT, featuring 148 packed pages of amazing TT action – and it costs just £7.99. Island Racer 2017 gets straight to the heart of this

The BSA Gold Star has been part of motorcycling folklore for the past eight decades, and at this year’s Carole Nash International Classic MotorCycle Show the ‘Goldie’ will be celebrated in the Restoration Theatre. Expert

Classic bike riders are being asked to saddle up to help raise money for blood cancer charities. The BONE-shaker MARROW-thon charity ride between Birmingham and Burton on Trent began in 2014 after the organiser beat

Kits to turn early Hinckley Triumph triples into classicstyled Roadsters are being made available by Café Racer Kits (CRK). Based on the sports machine first produced by CRK’s Ian Saxcoburg two years ago, the Roadster

More than 30 teams are now entered into the CMM-backed 4-Hour Endurance Legends event, which is due to take place this May at Donington Park. Darin Frow of Classic Bike Track Days says: “We now

A BIKE-MAD pair of TV engineering detectives are on the hunt for forgotten and hidden treasures tucked away in the sheds of Britain. Travel Channel presenters Henry Cole and Sam Lovegrove are about to film

One thing is for sure, these days in particular, the 1950s era of Trans Atlantic styling is eye-catchingly different...

If Tonka made motorcycles, then one can’t help thinking they’d make something like this chunky and purposeful TT Special.

The old adage of what looks right is right applies here.

Benelli’s 650 twin was a radical take on the British parallel twin design.

The 125 that escaped Suzuki’s crusher. John Nutting describes how the exotic Suzuki RS68 125cc four, the last works racer of the 60s, was liberated from obscurity