A Multitude of Manxes
“How would you like to test a few Manx Nortons while you’re at Pukekohe?” This was Kevin Grant speaking – one of the main movers behind the enormously successful annual meeting in New Zealand. “How […]
Bikes
The Ultimate Street Fighter – Mark Walker’s “Big Ned”
“I’ve never had a job. I just work on motorbikes.” This is a somewhat curious statement from a somewhat complex man. Mark Walker, by his own admission, has been around motorcycles all his life. A […]
Bultaco Metralla – Bully for you
By all accounts, Francisco Xavier Bulto (also known as ‘Paco’) was a formidable man with a typically robust Latin personality, and he loved motorcycle racing with a passion shared by legions of his countrymen. It […]
Late thrust – 1969 BSA Rocket 3
If only BSA could have put aside their propensity to dither and put their new triple into production earlier, things may have been a lot different… Considering that the BSA/Triumph Group was hardly in robust […]
Splitting the single – 1948 EMC 350cc
Dr. Joseph Ehrlich, who was born in Vienna and died in Britain in 2003 aged 89, has been described as a “volatile man” and “difficult”, among other things. But there is no disputing that in […]