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Fascinating story of Australian legend Rex Wolfenden..
Photography: Stephen Piper If any one person deserves credit for creating the ongoing historic racing success story that is Australia’s post-classic road racing category, it’s T-Rex Racing Developments’ affable proprietor Rex Wolfenden. Alan Cathcart tells
From The Archive - Nigel Devereux
April 6, 2020
From the Archive: Love your bikes? Thenyou’ll love the Bike Bus
Operated by the Caledonian Motorcycle Transport Company, the Bike Bus specialises in professional long-distance motorcycle transport between Scotland and England, and always goes the extra mile to protect its precious cargoes. The Bike Bus is
From The Archive - Nigel Devereux
April 2, 2020
FROM THE ARCHIVE: Ridinglife || Vincent Black knight
Knight life Vincents aren’t your average classic bikes. Thanks to their curtailed production run, the final big twins are even more unusual than most WORDS BY Frank Melling PHOTOS BY Carol Melling IF ALL VINCENTS
From The Archive - Nigel Devereux
April 1, 2020
From the Archive: Ariel Square Four
Ariel’s top of the range tourer is still more than capable of going the distance. If you look after its engine, that is PHOTOS BY Rowena Hoseason WHEN BUYING A typical Brit bike – a
From The Archive - Nigel Devereux
March 18, 2020
From the Archive: It’s time to get into line!
Fitting a sidecar with the aim of obtaining the best-possible handling will pay big dividends out on the road, writes Mick Payne. What keeps an asymmetric vehicle like a sidecar on the road? There is
From The Archive - Nigel Devereux
March 18, 2020
From the Archive: Made in Japan – The ‘Black Bomber’ and beyond – what went wrong?
Steve Cooper pulls no punches as he looks back on the 1965 UK debut of Honda’s first technically brilliant ‘big twin’, the CB450, and the enlarged 500T that followed. Someone once opined that, to know
From The Archive - Nigel Devereux
March 11, 2020
From the archive: Festival of Legends at Hawkstone Park with Cumbria Twinshock: September 10/11, 2016
Words: Tim Britton Pics: Fiona Watson The weather is a major concern for any event organiser and the track record for the UK recently hasn’t been that good and as CDB pitched the gazebo and
From The Archive - Nigel Devereux
March 5, 2020
The 2015 Bikers’ Classics Spa: July 3-5
During the 13th edition of the Bikers’ Classics on the legendary circuit at Spa-Francorchamps competitors and spectators suffered from a heatwave with temperatures up to 37ºC. Jan Burgers suffered the heat to bring us the
From The Archive - Nigel Devereux
March 5, 2020
Triumph TR6: The great escape artist
Words: Frank Melling Photos: Carol Melling The TR6 was born for the USA and enjoyed its moment of glory in an American movie. It was the Americans who pressed Triumph for a bigger capacity machine
From The Archive - Nigel Devereux
March 4, 2020
From the Archive: Make yourself at home at the Victoria Bikers’ Pub
If you like the company of fellow motorcyclists in an atmosphere of live music, real ale and no-fuss British food, lots of rideouts and bike gatherings throughout the year, the Victoria Bikers’ Pub could be
From The Archive - Nigel Devereux
March 4, 2020
From the archive: Born to perform?
Pete Kelly turns to the Mortons Motorcycle Archive once again to see how the reporters of the day saw three entirely different kinds of motorcycles named after famous race circuits.
From The Archive - Shannon Butcher
February 6, 2020
A brief history of motorcycle sidecars
Uncommon as they are today, sidecars are an interesting footnote in motorcycling history…
From The Archive - Shannon Butcher
February 4, 2020
From the Archive: Memories of Mike
We asked Racer readers to send us their recollections of the young Mike Hailwood. Sydney Webster and Jock Leyden sent us theirs…
From The Archive - Shannon Butcher
January 21, 2020
Debut of a King
The location is San Carlos in Venezuela and it would be an inauspicious start to their 500 campaign as a mechanical issue side-lined rider Kenny Roberts and reigning champ Barry Sheene would win. It wasn’t
From The Archive - Bertie Simmonds
October 19, 2016
Gregg Hansford
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From The Archive - Jayne Skayman
September 16, 2016
Vic Eastwood
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From The Archive - Jayne Skayman
September 16, 2016
Sheene and Roberts do battle at Spa
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From The Archive - Jayne Skayman
September 15, 2016
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