From our Old Bike Archives – Issue 81 – first published in 2019. Story and photos Jim Scaysbrook In earlier issues we have followed the amazing creations that have emerged from the tiny workshop (known […]
From our Old Bike Archives – Issue 84 – first published in 2019. Story: Nick Varta • Photos: Independent Observations. Standardisation is a concept that sits uneasily with those of the fertile and inquiring mind. […]
From our Old Bike Archives – Issue 88 – first published in 2020. Story: Jim Scaysbrook • Photos: OBA archives, Bob Rosenthal, Lothar Mildebrath, Procycles Collection. On 1st September, 1980, BMW nervously prepared to lift […]
From our Old Bike Archives – Issue 86 – first published in 2020. When it comes to his meticulous restorations, Rob Elliott shows no particular leaning towards any make or model, or even period. He […]
From our Old Bike Archives – Issue 87 – first published in 2020. Story and photos: Jim Scaysbrook There’s not a lot of reference material when it comes to the SS125, Honda’s offering of 1967. […]
From our Old Bike Archives – Issue 89 – first published in 2020. Story: Rick Schaap and Jim Scaysbrook • Photos: Robin Lewis. In the shadow of the Ural Mountains, rivers run in all directions, and […]
From our Old Bike Archives – Issue 83 – first published in 2019. Interview: Paul McCann • Photos: Clarry Rial, Maurice Austin, Corner archives, Keith Ward, Rod Tingate, Bob Toombs. It may be 60 years […]
Story and photos: Gaven Dall’Osto 1927 witnessed the maiden flight of Count Giovanni Agusta’s Ag2 monoplane which was reportedly the first “sport” aircraft designed and built in Italy. Unfortunately he passed away later that year […]
From our Old Bike Archives – Issue 83 – first published in 2019. Story: Jim Scaysbrook and Robert Baillie • Photographs: Gary Reid Once a common sight on race tracks, the Matchless G50 with its […]
From our Old Bike Archives – Issue 82 – first published in 2019. Story and photos: Jim Scaysbrook with input from Tony Morisset and Arthur Fleming. It was the collapse in 1929 of the German […]
