Tri-umph engine and Nor-ton frame equals Triton, and this one’s immaculate Everybody has a dream bike – the machine they’ve always wanted to own. Maybe it’s the bike they aspired to when they first got
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Blown BSA Sprinter
The 1960s produced a surge of interest in sprinting, drag racing and record breaking, which carried through right to the late Seventies – a time when straightline racing was afforded almost as many column inches
Read moreMatchless charm
The July 17, 1924 issue of The Motor Cycle carried the first test of the all-new Matchless overhead camshaft 347cc single – a machine aimed purely at the sporting rider. In the introduction to the
Read moreRoad Test: Harris Matchless G80
Harris Matchless G80 Some of us have some funny ideas in this old motorcycle world we inhabit but few are more likely to generate an increase in temperature beneath the collar than the subject of
Read moreRoad Test: Matchless 250 G2CSR
Matchless 250 G2CSR I am prejudiced. I have a deep affection for the majority of motorcycles, but don’t like BSA C10s, the Norman Nippy, Clubman’s Goldies and AJS and Matchless so-called lightweight singles; I have
Read moreThe London to Edinburgh Run, 1914
The competitor in question was the passenger in the outfit of a four-cylinder Henderson and said: “From the beginning we were out to win the cup for, without doubt, we had a machine the qualities
Read moreRoad Test: Royal Enfield J2
1950 Royal Enfield J2 The company was the first to offer what we recognise as conventional swinging arm rear suspension on its production models. And when the very competitive world of one-day trials was supported
Read moreTokyo Show, 1954
Harley lookalike! The Motor Cycle expressed disappointment, claiming there to be some 100 different manufacturers in Japan at that time, but offered some hope for the country’s two wheel industry, suggesting, “combined with the steady
Read moreCatalina Grand Prix
But, because the event didn’t run to strict American Motorcyclist Association technical regulations, the governing body refused to sanction the ‘Grand National’ permit so the 1954 event was run independently, with any make or model
Read moreLAST DAY! Mortons Archive photo competition
Send us your favourite pics! Simply submit your motorcycle related images (details below) and our expert panel will select a top three – with the winning photographer receiving a custom helmet courtesy of Davida, a
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