New & Features

Isle of Man TT – The Photographic History Bill Snelling and Michael Scott This handsome hardback aims to captures the spirit, excitement and danger of the world’s most famous motorcycle road race series. We asked Bill Nelson to read it and he went quite quiet (for a while)… Let’s start at the beginning, with the…

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In the 1970s Dave Minton first greeted the idea of a high-speed, high-mileage 750cc parallel twin with suspicion, but he was fast won over. Here’s how, and why… As a working motorcycle journalist, by 1971 I had become accustomed to abandoning test BSAs, Triumphs and Nortons by the roadside. The build quality of these final…

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A rebuild draws to a close, and Gerry Atric makes a discovery about Lucas alternators which may help you if your electrical system fails to charge its battery properly… Assembling my large DIY motorbike kit was not without its snags. For a start I was a little disappointed with how brittle the stove-enamelling was. While…

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Motocross on AIR! by Ian Berry This book will be launched at the Stafford Show on October 19th 2013, on the Panther Publishing stand, with superstar riders including Dave Bickers, Jeff Smith, John Banks, Bryan Goss, Dave Nicoll and Alan Clough in attendance. But even if you miss that event, you can still enjoy their…

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Phil Speakman considers relativity, a brief history of time, and the benefits of an opposable thumb… It’s funny stuff, time. It never seems to go how you expect it should. Sometimes it races along and other times draws onward interminably. I often wonder what happens during those ‘Oh noooooooooo I’m about to crash’ moments when…

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Bike Profile

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Old bikes never do quite what you expect them to. Steve Allcott was reunited with his dad’s Ceefer and ploughed a field with a Panther. Just don’t comment on his Thunderbolt! It’s a funny old world that we classic bike enthusiasts live in. Perhaps part of the enjoyment is never quite knowing what lies around…

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Bill Wood took a real risk with his first Italian classic bike. A basketcase rebuild – and a really unusual model, at that. Is he please with the results? About two years ago I purchased this Moto Morini, my first Italian motor cycle. The 1967 Moto Morini 250 GTI Settebello was in a poor condition…

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Steve The Toaster strips his P&J and finds that the inevitable has indeed come to pass… not only that, there is, indeed, no such thing as a quick fix. Next stop? The bank balance void… There are many dangerous words in the English Language when it comes to buying secondhand motorcycles; one of the very…

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Daisy the Speed Twin has carried Graham Ham half around the country and has become more than a little bit famous in the process. But just how did their adventure begin? Picture this. The air is heavy with neglect. Not the deliberate, uncaring neglect of a lazy person, but the neglect that comes with years…

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