Those of you fortunate enough to have been through the Socialist education system far enough to have gained some literacy will remember that many moons have passed since I turned...
The BMW R80G/S is an important motorcycle. Not because it will sell a million. It won't. Not because it’s everyone's ideal. It may be, but it's $5000. Not because it’s...
Ducati’s 900SS had it all its own way for years. Only Ducati understood the joy of a compact, simple, large capacity sporting twin. Character, individuality, stirring if humble performance, compact...
So what do you reckon, class? Is life like, as Kurt Vonnegut suggests in Slaughterhouse Five, the flickering light of a projector that appears randomly behind the cinefilm-framed images of...
Like Honda's 900 last year, the YZF had the Sunday road cafes abuzz with excited riders, eager to see what Yamaha could come up with after so long out of...
The clutch felt soggy all the way and there wasn't any play. I could feel the motor revving, surging as it slipped free. Bloody hell, twice in one week. I...
If you believed all the stories you heard about British motorcycles, it would have to come as a giant surprise to learn that they are still alive and well, and...
It was Soichiro Honda who first gave the world the modern multi for the masses when in 1969 the incredible (at the time) 750 four-cylinder CB750 upstaged the opposition. It...
A recent survey in the United Kingdom has totally altered every belief I held on motorbicycles and speed. For many years, more than I care to remember, I have believed...
Some bikes you can just climb on, hit the button and ride hard, confident that you know what the bike is about and that it will respond to your slightest...
The full-bodied bark of a Conti-ed Ducati Super Sport charging hard along the tight mountain road echoes through the valley from three, four miles away and hits me deep inside....
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...