CHRISTMAS CRACKERS!

It is traditional around now to suggest gifts that are suitable to fill a motorcyclist’s stockings. Not that we imagine you wear stockings very often – although an extra layer is always welcome in winter! Here at RCHQ we try our best to minimise the creation of yet more unwelcome landfill-fodder. Yet still an uncanny abundance of glossy hardback books…

Christmas Crackers!

It’s the time of year when we traditionally exchange gifts, and gaze into tomorrow to see what the next twelve months might bring. So this is exactly the right moment to bring you our annual selection of classic bike calendars, Christmas cards, and suggestions for some groovy Christmas gifts… ANDY TIERNAN Features six two-stroke motorcycles drawn in pencil and water-colours…

Frank Melling: The Flying Penguin

Frank Melling tells a mean tall story. You’d seek him out on Friday night, pint in hand, to hear ripping yarns about being black-flagged on Sammy Miller’s Norton Kneeler, or staring down the wrong end of a Colt 45 barrel in backwoods Missouri. The twist to this second collection of postcards from a riding life is that Frank’s tall stories…