From our Old Bike Archives – Issue 80 – first published in 2019. Story: Peter Laverty • Photographs: Russ Murray These days, Laverda is indelibly associated with high performance twins and triples, plus of course […]
From our Old Bike Archives – Issue 86 – first published in 2020. Story: Nick Varta • Photos: OBA archives From the beginning in 1921, when the 498cc Normale went into production, Moto Guzzi’s signature […]
From our Old Bike Archives – Issue 88 – first published in 2020. Story: Peter Laverty Take a Model 77 frame, with its single front downbar and bolted up cradle, add the sleek fuel tank […]
From our Old Bike Archives – Issue 81 – first published in 2019. Story: Jim Scaysbrook with assistance from Marnix Deibert • Photographs: CMS The RC70F preceded Honda’s next production motocrosser by 15 years. Few […]
From our Old Bike Archives – Issue 83 – first published in 2019. Story: Nick Varta • Photos: OBA archives. Russ Murray. Gaven Dall’Osto. Aermacchi Harley-Davidson. Doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue, does it? And […]
Story: Rennie Scaysbrook • Photos: Kit Palmer, Jim Scaysbrook To be fair, Blind Freddie could have recognised the RC30 as an instant classic from the moment it made its public bow. It’s a prime example […]
From our Old Bike Archives – Issue 80 – first published in 2019. Story: Nick Varta • Photos: Jim Scaysbrook In Sanskrit, Mantra means ‘instrument of thought’, and Bimota’s version certainly promotes plenty of thought. There’s […]
From our Old Bike Archives – Issue 70 – first published in 2017. Story: Jim Scaysbrook • Photos: John Ford, Ross Hannan and Jim Scaysbrook. It is a testimony to the brilliance of the original […]
From our Old Bike Archives – Issue 82 – first published in 2019. Story: Peter Laverty • Photos: Pete Slaughter and OBA archives. When the gritty Jeffrey Vincent Smith (later MBE) annexed the 1964 and 1965 […]
From our Old Bike Archives – Issue 76 – first published in 2018. Story: Peter Laverty and Rod Tingate • Photos: Jim Scaysbrook and Peter Dunster. When the all-new TX500 twin was scheduled to make […]
