This stunningly beautiful creature's credentials go more than skin deep, for it is also the most powerful 1000cc sportsbike on the road. Forget its claim of 122kW because it does...
How do you start to write about the MV Agusta? Do you detail the way they have dominated the world championships, do you point out that the factory's craftsmen only...
In the first instalment of Wringing Bells, we left Lester Morris and his mate Fred dicing like demons between Lithgow and Bathurst. In the concluding part of this tale from...
At the start of 1984, leading American motorcycle journalist John Ulrich wrote a thought-provoking profile of Yamaha’s new world 500 championship team leader, Eddie Lawson. In the profile, Ulrich predicted...
It’s amazing the amount of interest the new generation Japanese twins have stirred up out there in motorcycle land. In nearly every place motorcyclists gather - bike shops, pubs, rallies,...
Italy’s Giacomo Agostini holds the all-time record for the greatest number of world championships and grand prix victories. Agostini between 1965 and 1976 won 122 grands prix in the 350...
Living with a BMW for any length of time is like being exposed to old guard aristocracy. One is continually aware of the need to tidy up shortcomings, to make...
When it comes to the black art of roadtesting, Two Wheels has, thankfully, not adhered to its original editorial creed, as expressed in the first issue, back in 1968: "...
Ten years ago a super-confident, race-smart, 26-year-old twice American Motorcyclist Association champion from a dusty part of California came to Europe and did a job most thought impossible. His name...
The talk is there, the message is clear: let's make a show of reducing the fuel consumption by lowering the speed limit throughout Aussie-land even more, to around 90 km/h....
A run of the mill bike the Moto Guzzi 1000 Le Mans definitely is not. In fact, as Harleys, Ducatis and BMWs get more refined, reliable and sophisticated - more...
Oh how distant seems the day when I first became absorbed by the mystique of our mutually beloved form of transport, the sublime Motorbicycle. How many are the years which...
“What did you think about during the ride?” Guido and I are finally sitting on the verandah of the Tintaldra Pub after seven hours of more-or-less constant road time. He...
Honda has a special place in its corporate heart for the VFR. This bike embodies so much of what Honda is: Innovative, but rather humble about it; conservative, but highly...
Kawasaki has launched the Silver Bullet as its answer to the opposition's total performance quest. The Z1-R makes the King Kawasaki into an instant classic and one of the best...