Tag: Bikes

If you’re looking for a lightweight classic, you don’t have to be restricted to a two-stroke. Bill Wood has brought a little Italian back to life… While British lightweights of the 1960s tended to be utilitarian plodders (with an occasional sprinkling of excitement); their Italian counterparts were almost entirely the opposite. The Latin obsession with racing meant that even the…

Sold at the time as ‘the Italian Alternative’, this six-cylinder superbike from the 1970s still offers something radically different for the classic bike connoisseur… In 1972 Benelli stole a march on the rest of the motorcycling world when they launched the first production six-cylinder bike, the 750 Sei. A few years later they brought its big brother to the UK,…