Features

Suzuki’s Stinger was a beautiful, radically styled bike with a feisty motor in an unusual frame. It made a great bike, so suggests Classic Bike Guide’s Steve Cooper…

November 1971, Yamaha pulls off the coup of the decade by debuting the GL750 at the 19th Tokyo Motor Show. The world is fast realising that the once scorned two-stroke is the way to go; only Honda is championing poppet valves…

Honda’s CB1100F was the last of its classic air-cooled fours and although overshadowed by the exotic CB1100R production racer still pulls a hefty punch with a 140mph top speed…

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…

Moto Guzzi never did improve on the superbly designed original, as Rod Ker finds out in the saddle of its plastic-shrouded successor

Harley-Davidson’s motorcycles earned their stripes in combat during WWII, though this veteran modestly disguises its military background today…

What could be better than a Thirties Harley big twin? devotees of the marque would no doubt ask. Why two of course…

After a lengthy buttering up period, Terry Clark’s wife relented and agreed to the purchase of Harley Davidson’s V-Rod. But was it an expensive mistake?