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BSA Gold Star video
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The Classic Motorcycle reader Viny Parkinson celebrates BSA’s Gold Star with ‘Halcyon Days’, a song written and performed by him on YouTube…
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Vincent Super ‘D’ Black Shadow for sale
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Johnnie Sawyer died last year, aged 82, and now his family has decided to sell his Vincent Black Shadow, built in 1955, one of the last from the Stevenage factory…
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Road Test: Suzuki GT500
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When Suzuki’s 492cc two stroke twin was revealed in 1967 for the domestic Japanese motorcycle market it looked like a 250cc T20 Super Six on steroids. But it was doomed to become extinct before its time, John Nutting recalls the bike that started the Hamamatsu factory’s big-bike era and the last of the line…
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BMW: sixty years of flat twins
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One of BMW’s first satisfied customers was none other than Manfred von Richthofen. The legendary first world war German air ace, nicknamed the ‘Red Baron’ because he painted his aircraft scarlet, wrote in 1917 to thank designer Max Friz for the
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Road Test: Suzuki GT500
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When Suzuki’s 492cc two stroke twin was revealed in 1967 for the domestic Japanese motorcycle market it looked like a 250cc T20 Super Six on steroids. But it was doomed to become extinct before its time, John Nutting recalls the bike that started the Hamamatsu factory’s big-bike era and the last of the line…
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Peter Starr takes book signing ‘to the limit’
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Ground-breaking film maker Peter Starr will reflect on 20 years of shooting movies about motorcycle racing during an evening event in Coventry…
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Watsonian centenary rally
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Watsonian sidecars celebrates its centenary this year and to mark the occasion the British manufacturer is throwing a party at Stoneleigh Park near Coventry on 18-19th Aug 2012…
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Norton Commando AMC gearboxes
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Complete Norton Commando AMC gearboxes are now available from Andover Norton, made from original drawings but with improved specification materials…
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Triumph anniversary products
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To help celebrate that most British of motorcycle marques (even if the company was set up a German) Triumph is releasing a number of anniversary goodies…
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Spring puller
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The latest tool from Venhill Engineering is a worthwhile addition to any toolkit and makes fitting all sorts of springs easy, saving on skinned knuckles and frayed tempers…
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