From the Breganze factory to Bathurst, the RGS TT1 proved that the final chapter can often be the most thrilling
With Moto Morini reviving its iconic 72° V-twin, we take a rear-view ride of the brilliantly engineered 3½ that started it all
The two-stroke twin seemed to run better in cold air. So at dusk, my friend and mechanic, Graeme Rogers, and I would sneak out to a long…
This is the bike of my teenage dreams and that’s the only excuse I’ve got for acting as impulsively as a 16-year-old. I zip up my jacket and…
Edi Orioli’s January 1990 Paris-Dakar win on the Lucky Explorer Cagiva Elefant 900ie began a huge 12 months for Ducati and its owner Cagiva. By…
Phil Irving was adamant: “V-twins: the only practical alternative to the single,” he wrote as the heading of one of the popular columns he wrote in the…
It’s not unusual for a motorcyclist to want to track down the first bike they ever owned. It’s not even unusual for a Grand Prix racer to…
Looking back at Triumph’s history, building expertise in all-terrain motorcycles is nothing new and can be dated all the way back to the early days of the company.
In late 2016, DB Customs’ Darren Begg received a request he simply couldn’t refuse. A message landed in his inbox from American AMA fanatic Michael Peterson asking if Darren could…
1955 gave us the very first Yamaha Motorcycle: The Yamaha YA-1 Red Dragonfly Wars drive advances in technology. By the end of WWII, guns fired more bullets in…
It was six months into the restoration of a 1981 Suzuki Katana 1100 when owner Scott Lee and restorer Dave Marett realised they needed to make a…
Words Peter Whitaker Photography Ric Williams/Bushdriver Magazine Ayers House, Adelaide’s upmarket exhibition venue, was packed. Top European motorsport correspondents mingled with the local press for the media launch of the…