These two pretty T20 Tiger Cubs from 1960/1961 display the strengths and weaknesses of Edward Turner’s best shot at the lightweight market. Words: STEVE WILSON Photographs: JONATHAN FLEETWOOD Angela Carter ticks many of the boxes

Last month, Steve Cooper showed us that Suzuki’s TM400 dirt bike was something of a loose cannon and, ultimately, doomed to ignominy in the archives of motocross history. Now he tells us what happened next…

Words: Chris Pereira Michael was born on April 11,1931 in Plumstead London and the family later moved to Camberwell. His father Bill was a butcher by trade, but he was also a grasstrack rider so

We’re shining a light on some of the biggest and best players in the Classic Racing world and this timewe’ve been speaking to Louigi Moto’s Richard Llewellin. WHAT’S LOUIGI MOTO? Based down in the South

Sometimes a specification sheet can give the totally wrong impression of a bike. The MV Agusta 350S might just be the best example of such a phenomenon… Words: PHIL TURNER Photographs: GARY CHAPMAN The early

It was another dodgy day at Jerez, the first day of practice for the first GP of the 1999 European season. Mick Doohan, titan of the 500 class, was having an indifferent start to the

A rare timepiece given to Mike Hailwood by gifted watchmaker and pioneer entrepreneur Jack Heuer will feature in the Bonhams auction at the Classic Motorcycle Mechanics Show at Stafford later this month.

Intrepid motorcycle tourist Ida Crow and two companions take a European jaunt on their TR5 Trophies. Words: ADAM REARPhotographs: MOTONS MEDIA ARCHIVE At first glance, the photograph asks more questions than it answers, with a

Club life is a good way to be involved. Words: TIM BRITTON Photographs: BRIAN SLARK It’s a slightly different take on our brief chat for this month as we’re talking to a club rather than

This fabulous Royal Ruby V-twin has a rather regal bearing, which issomewhat ironic, as it was the overthrow of the Russian royal familythat most likely led to its non-delivery. Words: Rachael Clegg Photographs: Gary Chapman/Mortons

This fascinating, charming and ultra-rare motorcycle comes from the early days of Vincent-HRD manufacture. Words: James Robinson Photographs: Gary Chapman When I was a child, I was obsessed with a book called ‘The Vincent HRD

For a first ride on a rigid frame, girder-forked machine, what better place to do it than at Mallory Park, during The Festival of 1000 Bikes. Words: Chelsea Borchert Photographs: Matt Hull The rejuvenated Vintage

The sidecar has become more of a leisure item in recent years although, as Mick Payne knows, there are still plenty of enthusiasts using them on a daily basis. In the past, sidecar outfits were

Last September, after more than 10 years of trying, BMW finally scored a victory at the UK’s annual Goodwood Revival. The top step of the podium came courtesy of double World Superbike champion Troy Corser

Any of us who have been around motorcycles for any period of time will have some tales to tell of our fellow riders, and Ralph Ridley is certainly no exception… One of the benefits of

Pete Kelly raids the Mortons’ Archive once again to discover how the weekly motorcycling press reacted to a brace of 250cc Japanese twins in the early 1960s – Honda’s overhead-camshaft C72 Dream in 1961 and

YEAR: 1978 // LOCATION: Brands Hatch There comes a moment in every racer’s life when he’s sure he’s passed the slippery stuff – when he’s seen the obstacle in front of him, identified the course

Building on the fantastic success of last year’s event, join hundreds of traders as they showcase their wares to thousands of enthusiasts at the Carole Nash Eurojumble on Friday and Saturday, September 6-7.

You don’t get to this level of racing thought and execution without being able to tap into some top-flight thinking. The result… amazing… Words: Alan Turner Photographs: Gary D Chapman and Mick Robinson Exactweld is

Time to clear out your garage and join the Grampian Transport Museum for their annual Autojumble, with over 100 stalls selling everything from spares to auto-memorabilia, and much more.

Whatever you ride, be it classic bikes from the 1960s through to the 1980s, scooters or modern tackle, you’ll be welcome at the event which takes place at the famous Hawkenbury Inn.

Words: Terry Stevenson Photographs: Ginger Molloy, Jim Scaysbrook archives and Terry Stevenson. Anything can happen when two goliaths take to the track in search of victory, especially when the ultimate prize is on Australia’s most

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

Bultaco’s Mk3 Matador put up impressive medal-winning performances when introduced in the Sixties and this one is still winning in 2019. Words and pics: Tim Britton Media Ltd As we photographed his bike Damon Wood

The Ducati 916 is 25 years old this year, a bike that arguably didn’t only define the 1990s, but has had a defining influence on every sports bike made since.

Bertie Simmonds hosts an evening with James Whitham, professional motorbike racer and chat about his upbringing, his eccentric father and professional career.

With this year seeing the second running of this unique event at Lincolnshire’s Cadwell Park, the weekend of June 22-23 also marks the 70th anniversary of the FIM World Sidecar Championship, which is the longest

Just like buses, you wait for ages then two turn up together.

With the July issue of CMM seeing a test of the rare RZV500R, Phil Jason asks about the relevance of imports and why two-strokes are going up in value. Is the Japanese-market RZV500R – and

Words: Chris Pereira Photographs: Mortons Media Archive and Chris Pereira Originally an agricultural engineer from Haynes in Bedfordshire, tall and good-looking and the epitome of the modern gladiator, Bob started racing at Cadwell Park in

What made Bathurst’s Easter races the most important motorcycle destination in Australia? In the second feature of their two-part series, HAMISH COOPER and PHIL AYNSLEY go back to the Eighties to find out. Greg Pretty

David Wallace’s documentary film about the Armoy Armada is an all-time biking classic.

We love getting your nostalgic snaps of you back in the day with your steed!

Some road-going classics are forever linked with the racers that made them famous – and no more so than the Eddie Lawson Replica.

Triumph seems to be on a roll at the moment, combining the best qualities of existing models with the nostalgia of the past. We rode the latest: the Speed Twin. Triumph’s modern classic range seems

In one of his most frank interviews ever, Carl Fogarty lifts the lid on what he had to do to become one of Britain’s most successful bike racers ever. Words: Bertie Simmonds Photographs: Don Morley

In the second excerpt from his book: Moto GP a photographic celebration, Phil Wain concentrates on those brutal rivalries that pushed past the politeness of the sport and accelerated it to another level. KEVIN SCHWANTZ

Steve Wise was the greatest all-round rider in US motorcycle racing. Across 11 seasons (73-83), Steve won AMA Motocross and Supercross races, stood on the podium of the Daytona 200 with Roberts and Lawson, won

Since the May 2018 issue of CMM we’ve been following our Aussie mate Jeff Ware’s loving restoration of his great, late mate Helmut Phillip’s Suzuki RG500.

It may have been nearly 200bhp and needed extra weight adding to get up to the 130kg minimum, but the Elf 500 was born of sidecar tech. Kind of. The heart of any motorcycle is

If there’s anything better than a big powerful bike, it’s a small powerful bike.

Scoop rides a bike he almost bought and comes away smiling: Suzuki’s GT250 Ram Air…

Some nations seem to exude certain qualities almost as a national stereotype…

In the motorcycle world there are any number of reasons to create a special with components from various sources. These reasons range from ‘couldn’t afford a catalogued machine’ to ‘the standard offerings weren’t right’ and

The early 1980s saw a resurgence in Production racing on the mainland.

Driving in to the Automotodrom Brno today is much like any other European racetrack: masses of traffic in modern hatchbacks & rowdy bikers.

Often viewed as a sideshow to main solo racing, sidecars did eventually gain their own championship with a series of GPs making up a European title contest which did become a world championship in 1980.

I have to say I love doing these tests for CMM

Though a modern event, there is still the odd thing for us classic enthusiasts at the Motul- sponsored International Dirt Bike Show… With all that’s best in the modern dirt bike scene on display at

Quirky, strange, polished, these words can be used to describe Yamaha’s GTS1000A

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

    Occasionally academia glances over at our world, though it’s generally to offer reasons why we shouldn’t be rushing around on motorcycles because they’re not safe, are noisy and anti-social. However, there was at

Geoff Duke won six 350cc and 500cc world championships between 1951 and 1955 and six TT races between 1949 and 1955. He was racing’s first true superstar and household name, winning the Sportsman of the

It’s amazing how often chance plays a part in this magazine world, at least when it comes to inspiration for features. What I mean by that is a chance comment by someone at an event

  Perhaps you have to go further back to the charismatic ‘naked’ US Championship superbikes of Eddie Lawson, David Aldana and Wayne Rainey in the late 1970s and early Eighties or the World Championship winning

The chance to ride the one and only factory Harley-Davidson 500GP racer ever built came on a sunny summer’s day at Pirelli’s Vizzola test track, just half an hour from the lakeside Schiranna factory near

Whenever Ginger Molloy and his mechanic Gary Williams travelled on the Continent they either slept under the stars, between the bikes inside the van, or even on top of the bikes using a thin foam

There’s an understandable beam of pride that comes from Tim Davies and Nathan Colombi when either of the two men talk about the Suzuki GB/Team Classic Suzuki Katana race bike – and it could be

The oddest ball of all Tesi means ‘thesis’ in Italian, and that’s how Bimota’s remarkable alternative motorcycle started out, as a combined effort between the company’s then-chief designer Federico Martini, and two Bologna University postgraduate

When a factory makes a handful of motorcycles – only a handful – to race at the highest level in one of the most competitive championships ever seen, you get this. What a bike. What

Initially, the cammy Velocette was anonymous. The bike came about as the result of a discussion between two of the company’s top engineers. It was based on a standard, 350cc overhead camshaft KTT engine but

Moto Guzzi built a total of six complete 500cc V8 motorcycles, and while these differed slightly in design, they all had the same incredibly compact dry-sump water-cooled engine architecture, measuring 44 x 41mm for a

As the world moved into a new decade in 1980, the Transatlantic Trophy (or the Anglo-American Match Races as the series was also known) was about to celebrate its own first decade in existence when

Drama rears its racing head for Barry Sheene and Giacomo Agostini in Sweden. Words and photographs: Jan Burgers The eighth round of the 500cc World Championship took place at a quiet, open place in the

When the Davidsons offered him a ride in the 1940s it was a gateway to a life of racing on the ragged edge. And a beach. And alongside life-taking fireballs. By Norm DeWitt Born in

Having through the years renovated a lovely 16th century Tudor house near Lingfield, Surrey after the competitive part of his career, John now built up a property business, while devoting time to motorsport consultancy, and

FROM THE ARCHIVES After Chas Mortimer gave Yamaha its first 500cc class win at the last Grand Prix of 1972, riding a 350 twin, the 1973 season marked a new dawn for the Japanese factory

Factory machinery and Count Agusta not withstanding, Surtees had the world for the taking. As long as he could put up with the slow progress of the Italian’s development regime… Words: Alan Cathcart Pictures: Mortons