Features

Following a cancer diagnosis in 2004, Peter Starr was determined to live a purposeful life and see the world by motorcycle, exploring 12 new places across the globe.

Think of 50cc bikes as ‘just’ a 16-year-old’s steed at your peril – these tiddlers have seen some serious racing action over the years.

Try to consider your own bike – the bike you’re selling – through the eyes of the buyer.

As the electric bicycle/motorcycle concept increases in popularity, will it go the way of pioneer motorcycling… or autocycles?

Take a trip back in time with the 1971 H-D Super Glide Boat Tail…

This amazing photograph of a Wallis-JAP at Brooklands is noteworthy for its unusual subject, and its clarity. The rider-designer, George Wallis, was later the man who initiated the concept which spawned the Ariel 3.

Despite the economic hardships of the time and the fact the exchange rate was terrible, a European tour was still undertaken.

With an overhead camshaft engine and fully circulating oil system, plus sparkling performance, the first generation ‘cammy’ Velocettes certainly make a case.

Dictionaries inform the sidecar is: ‘a jaunting-car; small car attached to the side of a motorcycle; kind of cocktail.’ We’ll forget jaunting-cars and cocktails, but how did the world arrive at the sidecar? And what came before?