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Buying Guide: Honda CB750 buying guide
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Mention Honda CB750 at club night and everyone raises eyebrows, whistles and starts thinking five figure sums. The machine that started it all is quite rightly iconic but it’s also expensive…
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A bit on the side
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Well known sidecarrists and charity fundraisers Mick Payne and partner Kate – as in ‘Team Katy’ (see OBM May edition) – had a stand at the recent Carole Nash Bike Extravaganza in Newark, kindly provided by the organisers. It had a Triumph T140E with Charnwood Meteor chair and a Yamaha Virago trike…
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Road Test: Norton military prototype
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Taking a crack at the military market, Norton developed this handsome sidevalve twin. Sadly it was not to be. Signalman Reynolds, JE, does a brief tour of duty…
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Classic Camera: Ito on BMW, 1960
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Japan’s trailblazing rider Fumio Ito in action during the 1960 Austrian GP. That year, he made his full grand prix debut, finishing sixth in the season opening French Grand Prix, round one of the 500c world championship…
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Top bikes of the Seventies: 4
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John Nutting’s top 40 bikes from the Seventies, distilled from over 200 road tests. Final part, numbers 40 to 31…
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Straight from the plate: 1925 Junior TT
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Reported as the ‘most furious race the Island has ever seen’ the 1925 Junior saw the first four riders finish in a faster time than the 1924 Senior TT winner, with the fifth place finisher, HRD-mounted Curly Harris – Pip’s father – averaging a speed equal to 1923 Senior TT winner Jim Whalley’s record lap…
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Road Test: Norton military prototype
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Taking a crack at the military market, Norton developed this handsome sidevalve twin. Sadly it was not to be. Signalman Reynolds, JE, does a brief tour of duty…
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The Classic MotorCycle on sale – September, 2013
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Velocette Venom number one, history of the front fork, 1925 Junior TT, BSA A50, AJS 16 Standard, Bill Faulkner, Festival of 1000 Bikes and all the usual regulars, columnists and archive articles. On sale now!
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Workshop: Yamaha XS650 overhaul: 1
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Our 1979 Yamaha XS650 had struggled on the daily commute, then got packed away and forgotten in a damp cellar for almost five years, so it wasn’t a pretty sight. You join the overhaul with the engine already removed from the frame and stripped…
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Buying Guide: Moto Morini V-twins
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Ignore the Moto Morini V-twins at you peril. Great, surefooted handling, soulful engines and they look a million dollars, even when parked up…
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