Features

Following the success of the GSX series and Katanas, Suzuki upped the ante with the first GSXRs. A thinly disguised street legal race bike, the GSXR750 was an instant success…

Tighten up your chin strap, slip on some cool shades and politely advise your cardio-vascular system that it’s about to get a good sized dollop of adrenaline; it’s Kawasaki 350cc street scrambler time…

The overhead camshaft Norton is one of those motorcycles; it looks fast standing still. It could go a bit, too…

In a cross between a fairy story and a romantic novel Malc Wheeler tells the tale of the Moto Cinelli Ducati TT2 and his reunion with it 25 years on. Rose tinted spectacles are required to enjoy this story to the full

Back in 1953 people who customised motorcycles were known as ‘bitza-builders’ but as John Mills, writing in the August 20 issue of The Motor Cycle noted, the term didn’t always reflect the quality of machine built from various bits…

Rare, sought after and well engineered. The Henderson was a fast motorcycle, adopted by police forces in vast numbers…

SOS machines of any age are few and far between, as they were built in such limited numbers. So the even rarer vintage-era machines fall into the ‘hen’s teeth’ category…

A four-valve sporting single seemed out of character for Triumph in 1921. Bob Currie explains the background

Fast, tough and comfortable, the 11.50 combination was designed by its maker George Brough as a fast road train. Over 70 years later, it’s still capable of that role, if given the chance…

A term I don’t particularly care for is ‘badge engineering’ but it pretty much covers what AMC did with AJS and Matchless motorcycles. Acutely aware of marque loyalty in the market place AMC was careful to have an AJS or Matchless equivalent of each model in its range…