1969 MV Agusta 250B: Lightweight from a famous family
From our Old Bike Archives – Issue 99 – first published in 2022. Story Nick Varta • Photos Russ Murray Think MV Agusta, and screaming triples and fours spring to mind. But while the exotic […]
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Last lap for Last-Lap Kavanagh
From our Old Bike Archives – Issue 85 – first published in 2019. Story: Jim Scaysbrook • Photos: OBA archives, Elwyn Roberts, Alan Wallis, *Letter kindly provided by Joe Henry. With the death of Ken […]
UFO Alert: MV Agusta 175 Quattro Tempi
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 […]
Magni-Guzzi Arturo 1000: The All-Italian Magni
From our Old Bike Archives – Issue 81 – first published in 2019. Story: Peter Laverty • Photos: Jim Scaysbrook, OBA archives. In issue 67 we brought you the feature story on the Magni MB2 […]
MV 98 – The birth of the breed
From our Old Bike Archives – Issue 87 – first published in 2020. Story: Jim Scaysbrook • Photos: Russ Murray and OBA archives. What sprang from necessity for sheer survival became one of the world’s most […]
John Surtees: Il grande John
From our Old Bike Archives – Issue 65 – first published in 2017. Story: Jim Scaysbrook “Speed is not something you find, you’ve either got it or you haven’t.” – John Surtees The Italians called him “Il grande […]
Magni-BMW MB2: A marriage of convenience and a better BMW
Story: Jim Scaysbrook • Photos: Sue Scaysbrook and Alan Cathcart archives. Arturo Magni – A proud innings Only weeks after celebrating his 90th birthday in 2015, Artuo Magni passed away at his home north of Milan. […]
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 […]
Jack Findlay: Don’t call me Cyril
Story: Jim Scaysbrook • Photos: Karel Zegers, OBA archives Mike Hailwood once told me that around the original 14 kilometre Spa Francorchamps circuit, there was no one better than Cyril John ‘Jack’ Findlay. That’s high praise […]
The Grom Motorcycle Museum: Vransko, Slovenia
Story & photos: Jim Scaysbrook In the tiny country of Slovenia, which has been invaded, annexed, carved up and pushed around for centuries, it’s a miracle anything has survived. Almost destroyed in the bloody […]
