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  • Retro Beemers blew us away

    Retro Beemers blew us away

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    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.

  • Zero-miler RG!

    Zero-miler RG!

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    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

  • IN BALANCE

    IN BALANCE

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    A momentous occasion It is the aim of all trials riders to go clean… … and record the perfect score, of course the better the rider then the more chance there is of this happening.

  • One man’s ceiling

    One man’s ceiling

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    ONE OF THE more entertaining parts of this strange job is the annual ritual of working out fresh prices for the guides. I say it’s entertaining – which it is, in a peculiar anorak nonsensical

  • Island Racer 2017 – Your ultimate guide to the Isle of Man TT races

    Island Racer 2017 – Your ultimate guide to the Isle of Man TT races

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    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

  • Triumph Thruxton Bonneville

    Triumph Thruxton Bonneville

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    Claudio Sintich (aka l’Inglese) has drawn from a wide range of resources to research and publish this definitive work on

  • What might (and should) have been: John Kirkby and the Alpha Centauri engine

    What might (and should) have been: John Kirkby and the Alpha Centauri engine

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    How two men pointed the way to Britain’s racing future, but were eventually beaten by bureaucrats Words by: Pete Parnham Pictures by: Mortons Archive Lincolnshire’s John Kirkby was an extremely able racer and a man

  • Opening days: CRMC round one

    Opening days: CRMC round one

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      The CRMC’s 2017 opening day, mid-March, saw all classes limited to one race following weather and oil issues but the Sunday at Snetterton saw dry, windy conditions and a full programme of races that

  • FROM OUR ARCHIVES: Bob Smith – the peoples’ champion

    FROM OUR ARCHIVES: Bob Smith – the peoples’ champion

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    EVERY now and again there arises a rider who could hop on any bike and blast the hell out of his peers. Mike Hailwood was one, Bill Ivy another. But there’s another example – albeit

  • Vince French: Mechanic to the superstars

    Vince French: Mechanic to the superstars

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    There is an old saying that ‘behind every great man there is always a great woman’. But on the motorcycle racing scene, while women have always been plentiful, that saying should be more suitably paraphrased


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