MV Agusta 750 GT – Buff beauty
Story: Jim Scaysbrook • Photos: Sue Scaysbrook One of just 50 produced, the 750GT is the rarest of all the MV Agusta fours. When the much-anticipated Milan Motorcycle Show opened on 3rd December 1950, it confirmed […]
Month: December 2021
Tracks in Time: Little River
Story: Jim Scaysbrook • With assistance from: Jenny Martinez • Photographs: Ray Kelly, Wes Brown, Noel Cheney, Ross Martin and other private collections. Like its more famous counterpart in the Irish Sea, the Australian TT was […]
More herbs for early Zeds
Want a power increase of around 25% for your early Z900 series? The RS34 Mikuni Complete Carb Kit will do the job. As well as the extra urge, these carbs eliminate flat spots and provide […]
Ducati parallel twins – Parallel thinking
Story and photos: Jim Scaysbrook Ducati did some strange things in the 1960s, struggling, as it was, to remain in existence. In fairness, many, if not most of the shots were called by its American distributor, […]
BSA Gold Star – the legendary model returns
At the Motorcycle Live Show in Coventry, UK on December 4, the Indian Mahindra Group, which now owns the rights to the BSA name, showed the first model to be built since their acquistion of […]
The Rotary Club
Story: Jim Scaysbrook • Technical assistance: Paul Reed As the 1970s dawned, it seemed just about every major manufacturer was either working on or thinking about producing a motorcycle powered by a variation of the […]
Jack Findlay: Don’t call me Cyril
Story: Jim Scaysbrook • Photos: Karel Zegers, OBA archives Mike Hailwood once told me that around the original 14 kilometre Spa Francorchamps circuit, there was no one better than Cyril John ‘Jack’ Findlay. That’s high praise […]
