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Take a trip back in time with the 1971 H-D Super Glide Boat Tail…

This amazing photograph of a Wallis-JAP at Brooklands is noteworthy for its unusual subject, and its clarity. The rider-designer, George Wallis, was later the man who initiated the concept which spawned the Ariel 3.

Despite the economic hardships of the time and the fact the exchange rate was terrible, a European tour was still undertaken.

With an overhead camshaft engine and fully circulating oil system, plus sparkling performance, the first generation ‘cammy’ Velocettes certainly make a case.

Dictionaries inform the sidecar is: ‘a jaunting-car; small car attached to the side of a motorcycle; kind of cocktail.’ We’ll forget jaunting-cars and cocktails, but how did the world arrive at the sidecar? And what came before?

Forget about motorcycling being a lads’ world. There are – and always have been – plenty of women riding fast and far.

John Newbold, born in Jacksdale, Nottinghamshire on December 14 1952, but he was raised in South Normanton where his parents ran a butcher’s shop.

Black Friday is here and we’ve been busy driving down the prices on some of our favourite products for a limited time only.

There are many great books about classic motorcycling which are packed with fascinating technical information and critical dates in a bike’s production life. Classic Superbikes, by Frank Melling, isn’t one of them.

It is a wonderfully provocative and positive name, Sunbeam, isn’t it?