Classic Bike Hub UK

If his choice of bikes isn’t terrible enough, the fact that he can afford one is worse! Frank Westworth is as bemused as ever… Welcome to a strange day. It’s not every day that a chap’s email inbox gets filled with mail, mostly from strangers, announcing that one is being got-at in the pages of…

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You’re reading a website about old bikes, so presumably you like old bikes. But do you ride one? Frank Westworth is dazed and confused… ‘All Velocette dealers are rubbish! Know what I mean?’ An angry man was being angry at me. I am a kindly soul and gazed at him in wonder. Life on a…

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What bike would make the perfect introduction to real classic motorcycling? Vague familiarity or character-building oddness? Paul Miles conducts a scientific experiment on a man called Simon… I have a friend called Simon. Simon is a nice guy in his early forties and has been around bikes, like many of us, for most of his…

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“These large corporate companies won’t force their vision of motorcycles for the masses on me”. Anarchy goes to test ride a new Honda…. On any Sunday, well actually this last one, I rode over to my local Honda emporium to do the deed. To test ride a new Honda. It was sunny and bright but…

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Martin Gelder goes to Motorcycle Live at the NEC and comes back with a head full of questions and a camera full of inspiration and distraction in equal measure… There’s something very odd going on in the UK motorcycle market. For many years, the kind of bike that might appeal to a RealClassic rider looking…

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Ian Caswell recalls more of his early riding years at the Paddock, and one particular episode which became a local motorcycling myth… As with all memorable summers, the sun shone, and clouds were few. Most importantly some of our number achieved 17 years of maturity and while some drifted away towards car ownership, others got…

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What is the attraction of a modern ‘classic’ motorcycle? Paul “The Destroyer” sticks his neck out (and doesn’t mention Triumphs once!)… There are lots of differing views on certain brands of motorcycle which might or might not deserve the label of ‘modern classic’. I found it all very intriguing from my position as a bikeaholic.…

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John Ryan shares a final selection of his classic motorcycling photographic memories from the days when South London dealer Mocheck developed competitive production racers… In 1977, Mocheck’s racing effort moved up a gear with a genuine, factory-supplied RSC (Racing Services Centre) engine. Here’s the bike being prepared for its first test Old and New 400…

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By 1976, Mocheck were enjoying enough success on the circuits that the company produced and sold a proddie race replica. John Ryan rode less and spent more time spannering, and shares a selection of his classic photographic memories of the era… Race mechanic John Ryan and the four-cylinder Honda 900 at the Zandvoort endurance race…

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Back in the 1970s, Mocheck of Clapham fielded an array of racers. John Ryan shares a selection of his photographic memories of the time, from the track and back at the shop… The original Mocheck workshop in Kings Avenue, Brixton, with the staff bikes parked outside Race mechanic John Ryan at work in the Mocheck…

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