Nestling under the ‘classic’ radar, Honda’s CBX 750 is an Eighties throwback that gives many modern luxuries. Imagine this: Back in 1984 a young man named Marvin Nicholls stared through the window of a motorcycle
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This was one of the last stories Rob Davies, a regular CBG contributor, wrote for us before illness took him. Right to the end, he was trying to convince himself of bikes he didn’t think
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Yamaha were not following the herd back in the early 1970s. When some of their rivals were frantically developing sporty fours to replace their smoky, thirsty two-strokes, Yamaha went in a different direction technologically. It
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1956 Panther Model 100 Panther owners are an eclectic bunch. Take the owners' club stand at the Bristol Show for example. Next door, the Vincent OC, all precision, conformity and spit ’n’ polish. On the
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1952 BSA B31 We live in a world where complexity, for its own sake, is held as a benefit. One train of thought is ‘if something looks too simple to work, it probably is too
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Ariel 500cc KH twin Ariel’s smooth 500cc KH twin was a Val Page design of the early 50s, the Selly Oak company’s answer to the parallel twin vogue that Triumph started in 1937 and the
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Doug’s superb Triumph Trophy Doug Webb has an absolutely stunning Triumph. When first you see it, you could easily dismiss it as a show bike from a chrome plater’s, the whole thing shining from its
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Norton Navigator "There’s a Lotta Torque about Norton” – so went the company’s advertising slogan in the early Seventies, immortalised by the photograph taken at the Ascot Park Flat Track in 1972… Big-muscled parallel twins
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Suzuki T500 Focus in on a Kawasaki Z1 or a Honda 750/4 and you pretty much know what you are likely to get; 1970s superbikes with all the hype, cost, alleged kudos, etc. What you
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Unusual looking Suzuki Stinger It’s 1966, you are the Suzuki Motorcycle Company and everything in the world is wonderful. You are riding high on Grand Prix successes and your bikes are winning renown worldwide. In
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