Classic Bike Hub UK

If you’re a Ducati fan then we have something of a Sport fest lined up for you. And it starts here, when Ozboy encounters a true Ducati ‘passionisti’… Did you buy a bike or embrace a lifestyle? What drew you, maybe still draws you, to a particular bike or way of riding? Maybe it was…

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Kel Boyce bought a Spanish-built Mototrans 24 Horas by mistake, believing it to be a Ducati. No problem; it was built to go racing and so that’s what he did with it… So the road-going race replica I’d bought added up to a very overweight bike, right? Yep! But don’t get too carried away because…

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The ’24 Horrors’ has something of an appalling reputation, explains Kel Boyce. He bought one, and took it racing… You may know that the single cylinder Ducati was the backbone of 250cc racing, at least during the early years of racing under the Classic Racing Motorcycle Club. The fact that the ‘Duke’ never really stood…

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We’ve just ridden a much-modded Duke Darmah for the magazine, but back in 1978 Dave Minton rode one of the very first of the breed to leave the factory. And he thought it was really rather good… If you accept that riding in freak rainstorms can provide enough information with which to formulate an opinion,…

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In the first instalment of this short saga, we met Ash Gannicott and his miniature Italian cafe-racer project. Russ (Ash’s dad) Gannicott takes up the tale of a first time classic bike rebuild… The non-running, 125cc Mototrans Ducati had been successfully stripped. Nothing much was wrong with the major components, apart from the nearside fork…

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Ash Gannicott wanted his own classic bike. One small problem: Ash is only nine. So doting Dad Russ swooped on this ideal opportunity to play with (sorry; rebuild on a tight budget) a miniature Italian cafe racer… OK, imagine the scenario: you’ve got a few(!) bikes in your garage, a couple more at your workplace…

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What do you call an assortment of three lively Latin classics? Russ Gannicott compares and contrasts the various components of his Red-Eye collection… A bit corny, I know, but ‘red-eye’ seemed an amusing title for a mini collection of red Italian bikes, all with names ending in the letter ‘i’. Mmm, must be my infantile…

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Only the brave can boast that they’ve attended the mid-winter Dragon Rally. This book explains how it started and what makes it so special… This book covers nearly 50 years of the historic Welsh Dragon Motorcycle Rally, from 1962 to date, and it comprises of a collection of articles, stories, statistics and photographs from riders…

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Rowena wants a Douglas Dragonfly. Why does she want a Douglas Dragonfly? Why would anyone want a Douglas Dragonfly, exactly? There is no rhyme nor reason to the wanting of a motorcycle. There is no explicable rationale to explain my increasingly demanding desire to own a Douglas Dragonfly. When it began I had never ridden…

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A chance find of an old album of photographs led to the publication of this book, which recalls the halcyon days of motorcycle racing at the Donington circuit… A major challenge in recording history is that as it gets left behind by subsequent generations it compresses: formerly distinct time periods slide into each other to…

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