Classic Bike Guide
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Make them so we can ride them!
Having just come back from my wife trying a new Royal Enfield Himalayan for size, we couldn’t believe your editorial piece in the last issue. The seat height is 30 inches and it is just too high for her 5ft 3in. She recently sold her Moto Guzzi Nevada because despite lowering the suspension and seat,…
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650 BSA SPITFIRE 1958
Words and Photography: Robert Davies. Much thanks to: Graham Horne and Tony Cooper Have you ever gone to view a motorcycle and then ended up looking at something completely different? I did that. I went along to Graham Horne’s to talk about the elusive, but mysterious, Ariel Square Four, but I spent most of the…
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Have bike will travel
This Vincent Rapide had the usual issues while being restored, but now gets more use than a company car! Words: a happy OliPHOTOGRAPHY: Jon Ryan “YOU START IT,” says Andy, tickling the new Amal carbs and putting a foot, clad in a Nike trainer, on the Vincent Rapide’s kick-start, “like a cement mixer.” Vincents have…
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Honda CB650
Words by Oli – Photography by Gary (prettyboy) Chapman THE HONDA CB650 FOUR of 1978 was the last of an illustrious line, a swansong model with a new engine and frame, but partly thrown together using left over bits from older models. Launched in 1971, Honda’s CB500 Four and the later CB550 had been big…
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Velocette LE
From high-end singles and TT victories to a bike for the masses following the war – the Velocette LE would be all things to all men and women Producing A MASS-MARKET motorcycle for the Everyman has been the dream of many a manufacturer. Velocette’s best-selling motorcycle, which wildly outsold their high-quality postwar singles, was just…
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Living with a Trophy
What is one of these halo bikes really like to live with? Matt steals one to find out Words by Matt Photography by Chippy Wood and Matt If you don’t like people, don’t buy an old Triumph. Park up, pull in for petrol; even stop at traffic lights and you’ll be recalled stories of how…
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Buying Guide: Triumph TR6 Trophy
This single carb version of Triumph’s 650cc twin could be a better bike than the mighty Bonneville WHAT IS THE best Triumph twin? Well, it’s the 1968 unit-construction T120 Bonneville 650, isn’t it? Everybody knows that. That’s the Triumph that gets restored to within an inch of its life, wins all the prizes at shows…
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Founders’ Day
Is this the best classic bike meet no one’s heard of? Words by Matt photography by Matt and Charlie Hull If you don’t belong to The Vintage Motor Cycle Club (VMCC), or are new to old bikes, then Founders’ Day may just have passed you by. But more than 4000 came to this year’s one-day…
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Malle Mile 2019
Gather 500 bikes and riders of all different types and ages and let them all rip around a stately home’s garden. Am I in heaven? WORDS BY Matt PHOTOGRAPHY BY MARIA KNIGHTS I can honestly say I haven’t enjoyed, laughed at, and smiled at a motorcycle event as much for years. The Malle Mile reminds…
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Copdock ready to welcome all
THOUSANDS OF BIKERS are expected to gather at Trinity Park, Ipswich on Sunday, October 6, for the 28th Copdock Motorcycle Show – the event now regarded by many as the largest one-day motorcycle show of its kind in the UK. Each year the organisers try to improve on the previous year’s show and with top…
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