Honda CB500: Petite four
Story and photos: Jim Scaysbrook Straddle a Honda CB750 today and it seems like a nice compact package, certainly not overly large by current standards. Yet when it was released in 1969, the media applied […]
Month: January 2022
1929 Ariel Model B – A Selly Oak stunner
By the time the legendary motorcycle designer Val Page arrived in 1925, Ariel had already been around, in one form or another, for the best part of half a century. Charles Sangster and his son […]
G45 Matchless: The temperamental twin
Story: Jim Scaysbrook • Photos: Keith Ward, Dennis Quinlan, Keith Bryen, Jim Scaysbrook “The G45 was very simply a touring motorcycle, anything but inspiring.” These are the words of Australian international racer, the late Keith Bryen, […]
Doug Fraser’s Empire Twin
Story: Jim Scaysbrook • Photos: Photosmith.com.au , Jim Scaysbrook, Doug Fraser archives Doug Fraser is a BSA man from way back. In the fledgling days of historic racing he campaigned a very rapid B33 BSA and was particularly […]
