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  • Classics take centre stage at Manx TT

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    Organisers of the Manx Grand Prix have agreed a provisional schedule for the rebranded 2013 event. The fortnight long Manx Grand Prix Festival will retain the existing Manx GP races but from next year will also include a new Classic TT which will form part of a three day classic meeting…

  • Jim Morrison’s Honda found

    Jim Morrison’s Honda found

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    The Doors’ Jim Morrison’s 1968 Honda 305 Scrambler found and up for sale. But you’ll need deep pockets as the estimates value the bike between $50,000 and $100,000…

  • Reference: BSA Bantam D1 – back to basics

    Reference: BSA Bantam D1 – back to basics

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    To many, the BSA Bantam is familiar and often overlooked – though it still makes an excellent, enjoyable, value for money classic, as explained…

  • Reference: BSA Bantam D1 – back to basics

    Reference: BSA Bantam D1 – back to basics

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    To many, the BSA Bantam is familiar and often overlooked – though it still makes an excellent, enjoyable, value for money classic, as explained…

  • The way we were: September 1962

    The way we were: September 1962

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    Finally Wilhelm Herz’s (499cc NSU) motorcycle world speed record of 211.40mph set in 1956 was broken on Wednesday, September 5, 1962, at the Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah….

  • Side-to-side

    Side-to-side

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    Deciding to do their own coast to coast, east to west ride, a group of eight intrepid riders on elderly machines – the oldest being a 1929 Norton ES2 – left the beach on the Suffolk coast at sunrise (about 4.40am), to be on the sand in Wales for sunset…

  • Dremel 3000

    Dremel 3000

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    Unarguably one of the best tools to have in your workshop, the Dremel has been around for a good few years – often copied, but never bettered…

  • Old Bike Mart Unearthed – August 2012

    Old Bike Mart Unearthed – August 2012

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    This month’s unearthed readers bikes and finds

  • BSA Bantam D1 – back to basics

    BSA Bantam D1 – back to basics

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    To many, the BSA Bantam is familiar and often overlooked – though it still makes an excellent, enjoyable, value for money classic, as explained…

  • Reference: NVT rotary

    Reference: NVT rotary

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    It’s fifty-five years since the first practical Wankel rotary engine was built by NSU in Germany. John Nutting was one of the first journalists to ride a rotary-engined motorcycle when Norton-Villiers-Triumph revealed its ultra-smooth prototype in the 70s…


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