From our Old Bike Archives – Issue 102 – first published in 2022. Story: Nick Varta • Photos: Jim Scaysbrook If this motorcycle looks familiar, it’s because the basic design, in post-war times, wore many […]
From our Old Bike Archives – Issue 102 – first published in 2022. Story and photos: Jim Scaysbrook • Extra photos: John Oirbans It’s a Commando, but not as we know it. “Does it have […]
From our Old Bike Archives – Issue 100 – first published in 2022. Myths and legends surround many models in the annals of motorcycling history. The older they become, the more the truth seems to […]
From our Old Bike Archives – Issue 102 – first published in 2022. A Learner-legal motorcycle that puts of 34kW (45.5hp) at 18,000 rpm? Surely a typo. But no, this is the spec for the […]
From our Old Bike Archives – Issue 101 – first published in 2022. The R69S has become, over the years, one of the most revered of all the BMW flat twins. It is rare too, […]
From our Old Bike Archives – Issue 101 – first published in 2022. Story: Peter Laverty • Photos: Neale Binnion, Gaven Dall’Osto, OBA archives Just when everything was getting bigger in the ‘seventies, Kawasaki went […]
From our Old Bike Archives – Issue 100 – first published in 2022. Story: Jim Scaysbrook • Photos: Roger Ralston, Jim Scaysbrook, OBA archives. Twice written off, this rare New Imperial has managed to survive […]
From our Old Bike Archives – Issue 95 – first published in 2021. Story: Nick Varta • Photos: (Main) M33 Productions, (Historical) Gaven Dall’Osto, Lothar Mildebrath, Peter Whitaker, Etienne Blanchon, OBA archives. Ask almost anyone […]
From our Old Bike Archives – Issue 94 – first published in 2021. Story: Jim Scaysbrook • Photographs: Rob Dames “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery” – Oscar Wilde “Haw, haw”, they chortled. Honda’s […]
From our Old Bike Archives – Issue 93 – first published in 2021. Story and photos Peter Drakeford The International Six Day Trial was the pinnacle of the off-road world in the 1970s, capturing the […]