Classic Motorcycles
If anyone needed proof of the rising values of 1970s Japanese motorcycles then here it is. A beautifully restored 1975 Kawasaki Z1-B sold on...
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If you love bikes, banter and a good rummage through an autojumble, then clear your diary: NMM Live 2025 is rolling into the National...
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In the twilight years of the British motorcycle industry, when storied marques were either folding or floundering, an American entrepreneur named Floyd Clymer attempted...
Bike Of The Week
If you had to pick one motorcycle that set the template for the modern adventure bike, the Yamaha XT500 would be a strong contender....
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Some roads are just tarmac and paint. Others become legends. And then there’s Route 66 — the Mother Road. The highway that stitched America...
Retro Bikes
Some names in motorcycling carry more than just letters on a tank. They carry memories. The smell of two‑stroke smoke on a damp morning....
Retro Bikes
BMW has a knack for this sort of thing. Reach back into the archives, pull out a design that had us all swooning in...
Retro Bikes
There’s something beautifully irreverent about unbolting a brand-new Royal Enfield straight out of the crate and taking an angle grinder to it. Most builders...
Retro Bikes
You don’t get many motorcycles that wear their heritage so proudly and yet feel like they’ve just burst out of the prototype lab. BMW’s...
Bike Of The Week
Some motorcycles are remembered for their technical brilliance. Others for their cultural impact. A select few, like Kawasaki’s GPz900R, manage both. It was the...
Bike Of The Week
In the smoky, oil-rich atmosphere of 1920s American racing, the hillclimb was the gladiator arena of the motorcycle world. Stripped of niceties and bred...
Bike Of The Week
There’s a certain quality and star status afforded classic motorcycles with girder forks. Partly it’s because many date from a ‘Golden Age’ of motorcycles...
Retro Bikes
Classic Motorcycles
Retro Bikes
Blimey, is it really 50 years since I joined Motor Cycle News as a hugely enthusiastic but very inexperienced journalist? Yep, and my first...
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More than 100,000 riders, across 900 cities in 107 countries, took part in the 2023 Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride on 21 May. It was a...
Classic Motorcycles
Norton George… what a great name! Evocative and intriguing at the same time. And it rang a distant bell, though I’m still not sure...
Classic Motorcycles
As well as its more famous vee-twins, Italian manufacturer Moto Guzzi also made a 500cc single cylinder motorcycle. One is coming up for sale...
Classic Motorcycles
The speedometer reads 81,115 miles on this 1958 500cc BMW R50 but it hasn’t been ridden in a long while – possibly since 1997...
Classic Motorcycles
The First World War from 1914 to 1918 was vile. It was the war that should have ended war, so bloody was it particularly...
Classic Motorcycles
Who knew rock ‘n roll star Elvis Presley was into motorcycles? Just before his death in 1977 he bought a 1976 Harley-Davidson Electra Glide...
Classic Motorcycles
Have classic motorcycle auctions gone crazy or is $20,000 a good price for a 1975 Suzuki TM250 dirt bike? Not just any old TM250...
Classic Motorcycles
A very special 1931 Brough Superior SS100 sold for an amazing £281,750 at Bonham’s Spring Stafford auction at the International Classic Motorcycle Show on...
Classic Motorcycles
A vintage motorcycle enthusiast has thanked Kent Police and others for reuniting him with his stolen motorcycle after 27 years. West Malling farmer Stephen Betts reported the...
Classic Motorcycles
The National Motorcycle Museum Live event will be back as a two-day event on 28-29 October 2023. Among the live on-stage appearances will be...
Classic Motorcycles
Classic Motorcycles
