Features

Oil pumps are usually hidden in the depths of an engine. Unfortunately the age-old saying ‘out of sight, out of mind’ often applies. As they are the heart of our motorcycle engines, lubricating vital bearings and other moving surfaces, they deserve regular health checks…

The BSA A65 Lightning Clubman was the top of the range unit construction BSA, in many ways the replacement for the Rocket Gold Star as BSA’s twin-cylinder racer on the road…

Ace restorer John Guy is well known on the show circuit, for his collection of vintage and post-vintage machines, six of which are SOS two-strokes. To find John as the owner of the featured French-built Magnat-Debon, then, was a bit of a surprise…

The 125 that escaped Suzuki’s crusher. John Nutting describes how the exotic Suzuki RS68 125cc four, the last works racer of the 60s, was liberated from obscurity

Before supplies dry up splash some cash and buy a Honda CB450. No, not the later uber-Dream from Brazil but the bike that scared the British bike industry witless…

Ossa ace Mick Andrews scored his second win in the prestigious Scottish Six Days Trial in 1971…

This late Velocette Venom is a fine hard-working example of what to many is the ultimate British single…

Sometimes bikes are amazingly successful when there is nothing really spectacular about them: take the Honda 250 Super Dream. ?There was nothing fundamentally or seriously wrong with the machine but neither was there anything magical about it…

The most famous win in the Scottish Six Days Trial – the SSDT – is likely to be the one-dab win by Gordon Jackson in 1961…

The Carole Nash Great Scottish Bike Show returns to Lanark Agricultural Centre for its second year – bigger, better and more entertaining. Make a date!