Though this Vincent-Norton hybrid machine may be described by some as a ‘special’ it was intended as the forerunner of series production...
Considering it was almost never made, the competition single had an extraordinarily successful compeition career. It is fortunate that John Prestwich, founder of the world-famous company that manufactured JAP engines, had second thoughts after visiting a local speedway meeting in 1928...
The Bradbury 3½hp single was unusual for having its engine case integral within its frame, an arrangement that offered several advantages...
Four times George Brough experimented with a four cylinder engine layout and four times he was thwarted
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Henderson’s four-cylinder marvel was unparalleled for its era and history records that the ‘Rolls-Royce of Motorcycling’ epithet would attach itself to a rival English firm. Yet, it was a Henderson ‘four’ that first circled the globe during 1913... Mike Lewis explains
This sprinter was built by three engineering apprentices in the early 1960s – and it’s continued to impress with its rapid pace in the decades since...
The Goodman family – manufacturers of Velocette – stopped making motorcycles circa 1970, right? Well, not quite. In 1998, Simon Goodman, the great grandson of the firm’s founder, made one last machine, and thanks to Neil Redley we’ve scooped a test on this unique machine...
Road racer Tommy Robb hitches a lift on the back of a Triumph Tiger 100A ridden by scrambler Billy Hutton, after he was forced out of the 1964 125cc Ulster GP. Following a crash at the 2012 Mallory Park Festival of 1000 Bikes, Tommy has now decided to hang up his helmet and leathers and no longer participate in parades, either...
At Arpajon, in August 1930, the Motorcycle Club de France organised its annual record attempts meeting, arranging for over four miles of the main Paris-Orleans road to be closed, so speed men from around the globe could congregate and attempt to establish new world’s bests...
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