Features

Cotton, as a motorcycle manufacturer, didn’t stray from the ‘straight tube’ frame building philosophy in the 1920s and 30s. That was because it was a design that worked. Best of all, the frame allowed all of the performance to be used. Roy Poynting explains…

Aintree motor racing circuit opened in 1954 and these pictures come from the first motorcycle race meeting, which attracted a strong entry…

South Africa’s first TT races owed little to the Isle of Man events, the organisers preferring to plough their own furrow…

Buy a Harley-Davidson and enter a world of knuckleheads, springers, flatheads, softails, early shovels, and a lifestyle like no other, Richard Rosenthal samples a taste of the American Dream, and comes away impressed – sort of…

Kevin Cameron describes the design and reasoning behind Harley-Davidson’s Evolution engine…

Mark Williams has built this Indian Standard virtually from scratch, at his home near Hobart. Having finished a remarkable restoration, now, indrecibly, he is thinking of making a sidecar to hang on the Indian. He hasn’t located one, he’ll have to do it from scratch…

In production for 20 years, Henderson’s four cylinder model changed engine three times. Tim Holmes details the alterations…

Sometimes steady modification and improvements aren’t just quite enough and a radical rethink is necessary. Rod Ker tells the tale of how Norvil continues to prove that the twin is anything but dead…

How special are works bikes? Just ‘special’ or ‘very special’? CDB asks the question and Dave King answers