The two-stroke twin seemed to run better in cold air. So at dusk, my friend and mechanic, Graeme Rogers, and I would sneak out to a long…
This is the bike of my teenage dreams and that’s the only excuse I’ve got for acting as impulsively as a 16-year-old. I zip up my jacket and…
Edi Orioli’s January 1990 Paris-Dakar win on the Lucky Explorer Cagiva Elefant 900ie began a huge 12 months for Ducati and its owner Cagiva. By…
Phil Irving was adamant: “V-twins: the only practical alternative to the single,” he wrote as the heading of one of the popular columns he wrote in the…
It’s not unusual for a motorcyclist to want to track down the first bike they ever owned. It’s not even unusual for a Grand Prix racer to…
Looking back at Triumph’s history, building expertise in all-terrain motorcycles is nothing new and can be dated all the way back to the early days of the company.
Brits are pretty good at inventing things, but much less good at commercialising them. From penicillin through to the internet, there are literally hundreds of British inventions which either…
In late 2016, DB Customs’ Darren Begg received a request he simply couldn’t refuse. A message landed in his inbox from American AMA fanatic Michael Peterson asking if Darren could…
1955 gave us the very first Yamaha Motorcycle: The Yamaha YA-1 Red Dragonfly Wars drive advances in technology. By the end of WWII, guns fired more bullets in…
It was six months into the restoration of a 1981 Suzuki Katana 1100 when owner Scott Lee and restorer Dave Marett realised they needed to make a…
Words Peter Whitaker Photography Ric Williams/Bushdriver Magazine Ayers House, Adelaide’s upmarket exhibition venue, was packed. Top European motorsport correspondents mingled with the local press for the media launch of the…
Mike Hailwood is widely known as one of the top five grand prix racers of all time. He is also widely known as being capable of riding…
