This attractive 500cc replica of a Production TT winner started life as a 350cc Viper. Pretty special Wrapped up against the cold, Colin Archer exercises his motorcycle. Bombing along the wide empty roads of the
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Category: Feature articles
Trying times
Have you ever been to a museum and wanted to ‘have a go’ on the exhibits? Now, the National Motorcycle Museum has decided to allow that to happen. Trying times Nottingham man Clive Osman had
Read moreMotorcycles dominate at the Land’s End Trial
Previously an event favoured equally by those of the two-, three- and four-wheeled persuasion, the 1953 Land’s End Trial was one in which the motorcycles took centre stage. Motorcycles dominate at the Land’s End Trial
Read moreVitesse with finesse
An exhaustive search led to the resurrection of an incredibly rare, but quite fabulous, model. Vitesse with finesse Though it has taken an awful lot of hard work and effort to construct, Gernot isn’t afraid
Read moreThe story of the Ormonde
Modern literature often relates the decline of the British and continental motorcycle industry in the 1950s and 1960s. Arguably the rot set in before the First World War. The story of the Ormonde With the
Read moreCrash, bang, wallop…
A tangle of Nortons at Brooklands in 1927. Crash, bang, wallop… Though Brooklands endured sustained popularity as a venue for record-breaking and high-speed machine proving, it was never really a place that provided much spectator
Read moreBeautiful baby
The 680 ohv Brough Superior was launched as smaller version of the iconic SS100 – and it certainly looked the part. But, for better or worse, does it share its bigger brother’s characteristics? Beautiful baby
Read moreCommuting with style
In Germany in the 1950s and 60s, Zundapp was one of several companies to manufacture high-class ‘commuter’ machines. Commuting with style Above: Despite the KS100 being half the engine capacity of the other, it is
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This staggering motorcycle, built in 1935, is based on a Henderson Four. It takes its styling cues from the art deco period from whence it came – and it couldn’t have come from any other
Read moreThe camera does lie
The start of the 1967 Ulster Grand Prix. But all is not, perhaps, as it seems The camera does lie Every picture tells a story, right? So, here we have the start of a race
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