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Peter Glover on the impact of Harley-Davidson’s 1936 overhead-valve Sixty-one

Space for a week’s luggage and 200 miles between fuel stops. BMW got it right when they created the RT for long-distance bikers

Long wheelbase and lazy steering made cornering with the Ducati slow, but on twisty A-roads a Duke will still give a modern bike a run for its money

In the early 1960s the Moto Guzzi factory produced a three-wheel military vehicle – but it bequeathed to the motor cycle world the now familiar transverse vee-twin power unit

Honda’s six cylinder 24-valve CBX was ground breaking when launched. And even now, its tech spec is rarely bettered

A parts-bin stop-gap measure it might have been, but Yamaha’s FZ600 turned out to be an absolute sensation

In the heady superbike days of the Seventies the battles between the big 750cc two strokes were legend…

Jewels of the orient. We test Honda’s ‘Black Bomber’ CB450 against Triumph’s 500