Darren Hendley

  • MORE WHITE HELMETS TIGERS BREAK COVER

    MORE WHITE HELMETS TIGERS BREAK COVER

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    IF YOU MISSED out on buying an ex-White Helmets Display Team Triumph Tiger at the recent sale of the team’s assets, do not despair. Bonhams sale on April 22 at Staffordshire County Showground will see five more of the L F Harris-built Tiger 750s go under the hammer. The sale will also see an ex-Edinburgh…

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  • Trophy for friends of Terriers and Cubs

    Trophy for friends of Terriers and Cubs

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    THE TRIUMPH TERRIER and Tiger Cub Club have inaugurated an award to be presented each year in perpetuity to an individual or organisation considered to have contributed most to the furtherance of the interests of owners, restoration of existing examples and the preservation of the marque in general. A trophy made and contributed by a…

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  • READ: British Bulldog Built By Fred, Not Bob

    READ: British Bulldog Built By Fred, Not Bob

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    Nowadays the term ‘Bobber’ has become as ubiquitous as café racer or street tracker, with manufacturers jumping on a potentially profitable bandwagon.

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  • Birmingham spares shop moves after 80 years

    Birmingham spares shop moves after 80 years

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    MOTORCYCLE DEALERS AND one-time manufacturers Vale-Onslow have left the Sparkbrook premises in Birmingham that they occupied for more than 80 years, to move to a new location. Vale-Onslow had been a feature of Stratford Road in Sparkbrook since the 1930s and in British motorcycling’s 1960s hey-day the shop would see hordes of riders turn up…

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  • BSA A7

    BSA A7

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    Words and pictures by Oliver Hulme “A SPORTS MACHINE in the true tradition…the Star Twin has few equals as a machine for sustained high-speed road work”. So said The Motor Cycle in April 1952, reviewing the latest example of the BSA A7. It is fair to say that The Motor Cycle liked the A7, praising…

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  • McGUINNESS TO RIDE FOR NORTON!

    McGUINNESS TO RIDE FOR NORTON!

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    ISLE OF MAN legend John McGuinness will campaign a Norton at this year’s TT. McGuinness will join Josh Brookes in the Superbike and Senior races on a factory V4 Aprilia-engined Norton racer, after years of riding for Honda. He suffered serious injuries in a crash during practice at the NW200 in 2017 and it was…

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  • 1973 Triumph Tiger 750

    1973 Triumph Tiger 750

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    From Autobahns to wee twisties, this tolerant twin is tremendous fun and often recommended as a good choice for a first British bike!

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  • Early Honda could break record

    Early Honda could break record

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    AN HISTORICALLY IMPORTANT Honda CB750 is up for grabs at the H&H Classics auction on March 4, at the National Motorcycle Museum. A late pre-production model, it is one of only four built, only two are known to still exist. Although it is estimated at £35,000-£40,000, the other machine sold for £88,900 in 2014. H&H…

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  • BSA Super Rocket Special

    BSA Super Rocket Special

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    Words by Oliver Hulme Photography by Jason Bryant AS DUSK FALLS on a farmyard somewhere in the south west of England, Ray Loxton is tinkering with the oil pump on his pre-unit Triumph Bonneville. “I’m not getting the pressure through, brother.” Ray calls everybody brother. “It should be coming through the end of the crankshaft,…

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  • March 2018

    March 2018

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    From the archive A collection of British bikes, in New York. BSA Super Rocket special CBG finds a BSA special and its wonderful owner, Ray Loxton. Subscribe! Get your favourite magazine delivered from just £20 for six months. Bargain! News John McGuinness riding a Norton at the TT and many other goings-on in our world.…

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