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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
