In 2000, great things were hoped for from the revitalised Hinckley-based company when it announced it was entering the 600cc Supersports market. The bike it produced was one of the finest handling in the class...   read more >>

The Honda CX 500 Turbo should have been the spearhead for a new generation of motorcycle. With tax and licensing laws ushering people onto the saddles of smaller-capacity bikes, the power offered through turbocharging seemed to be the future. Nevertheless, the CX500 Turbo proved to be one of the biggest flops in Honda’s history...   read more >>

The seemingly never-ending wait is over, and spring has finally sprung. Warmer weather and cloudless skies mean the motorcycle season is here too, so we now present five bikes on which to chase the sun....   read more >>

BMW motorcycles have always tended to shy away from the 'affordable' end of the spectrum. But in 1929, when the large-capacity BMW R62 was released, it set new standards in terms of pricing...   read more >>

Built to contest the 2001 World Endurance Championship, this one-off factory prototype MV Agusta F4 played a key role in the expansion and diversification of the legendary Italian marque. ...   read more >>

"Most of us associate the word 'fastback' with slope-roofed cars such as Bullitt Mustangs," says Simon de Burton, but here he recalls a childhood dream machine in the form of a fastback with two wheels...   read more >>

Brothers Derek and Don Rickman rose to fame in British motorbike racing circles during the 50s, and later applied their knowledge to custom-built motorcycles. One highlight was the ‘Métisse’, which saw a variety of engines used in a bespoke, lightweight frame...   read more >>

“You’ve got to love it,” says Larry Preston-Smith. The ‘it’ in question is the principle of working on bikes, but it’s more a statement of the man’s unique and infectious joie de vivre that leaves visitors aching to ride off into the Cotswolds sunset on a customised BMW...   read more >>

With its classic lines, piano black paintwork and traditional layout, you’d be forgiven for thinking this 490cc BMW motorcycle is from the 1930s, not the acid-tripping late-60s...   read more >>

By 1973, it had become a fact of motorcycling life that BMW produced sturdy, reliable, well-engineered but – dare we say it? – rather 'pedestrian' road bikes. Then, along came the R90S.   read more >>

BMW has announced that to celebrate the 90th anniversary of its first motorcycle, it'll be launching a special model. So we cornered Ola Stenegard, one of the young design team leaders, and tried to tickle some information out of him...   read more >>

We asked Simon de Burton to come up with five little-known facts about BMW motorbikes, and this is what he told us: from the technically interesting tidbit to the simply bizarre...   read more >>

No, it’s not something from ‘Back to the Future’. In 1980, this WAS the future of motorcycling, as envisaged by the Porsche Design Studio...   read more >>

Motorcycles from Osso and Rickman are often seen as the ‘cool kids’ of classic motocross, but anyone familiar with the bikes made by Lito will surely agree they are serious rivals when it comes to kudos - not to mention competition prowess...   read more >>

Size does not matter. So we are told. But for international record-breaking it’s all-important and, if you’ve ever wondered what the best average speed a tiny 50cc bike could achieve over 24 hours, well, it’s 108.834km/h (67.59mph) and this is the bike that achieved it...   read more >>

The figures ‘150bhp’ and ‘1.34-litre’ might not sound that impressive in car terms, but when they’re derived from a limited-production factory racing motorcycle, they become very interesting indeed. Especially when one of the bikes generating them – a 2006 Buell XBRR – is currently up for sale...   read more >>

With an engine note as moving as an opera by Verdi, and curves as beguiling as Sophia Loren’s, the legendary Ducati 750 Super Sport is an all-time favourite among Ducatisti...   read more >>

The Lambretta might have been Italian-born but it was the dream transport of any mod, worldwide. Especially popular among the besuited enemies of the rockers were the Li and TV models but the success of the brand is based on its predecessor, the legendary Lambretta LD...   read more >>

Hot coffee from Hamburg: motorcycle customiser Axel Budde has just completed the seventh Moto Guzzi café racer in the Kaffeemaschine series. Beneath the handmade aluminium shell there’s modern technology – and respectable performance...   read more >>

A 1970 Husqvarna 400 Cross owned by none other than ‘King of Cool’ Steve McQueen will cross the block in the New Year, with auction house Bonhams expecting it to fetch between 80,000 and 100,000 U.S. dollars...   read more >>

Beards? Check. Location for shoot a once-unfashionable, now achingly trendy part of London? Check. Grungy, chopped Bee-Emm twins? Oh yes, as this is all about the bike customising shop Untitled Motorcycles...   read more >>

On 23 October 2012, H&H Classics achieved the highest price for a Brough motorcycle at public auction when it sold the celebrated bike known as ‘Old Bill’ for £291,200...   read more >>

Four unique BMW racing motorcycles are to be sold by Bonhams in January. Each of the quartet – all 1950s machines – would seem a perfect entrant to the recently revived ‘Mint 400’ desert race, made famous by the 1970s book ‘Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas’...   read more >>

H&H looks set to smash its own record for the most expensive powered two-wheeler ever sold at auction, when it puts ‘Old Bill’ under the hammer in October…   read more >>

If cycling seems too much of an uphill struggle, there's always a battery-driven option. Or perhaps you think an electric bike is not your style? Think again. The Bomber from Stealth Bikes is the toughest-looking two-wheeler on the market - the ultimate ride for off-road daredevils who won't let any obstacle get in their way...   read more >>

The name 'Derringer' commonly conjures up an image of the type of 19th Century pocket-sized pistol famously used by John Wilkes Booth to assassinate Abraham Lincoln – but LA-based industrial designer Adrian Van Anz has now adopted it for a range of bespoke, board-track-style motorcycles...   read more >>

For the latest ‘refill’ in his ‘Kaffeemaschine’ series, Hamburg-based motorcycle builder Axel Budde has once again reawakened a 1980s Moto Guzzi by furnishing it with custom-made parts – and buckets of taste. It makes its inaugural appearance at the 2012 Biker’s Classics in Spa this weekend...   read more >>

Film: White Knuckle - The Motorcycle Cannonball Run

We’re all familiar with the Cannonball Run – but why should the fun be restricted to four-wheeled transport? In short, it’s not; classic motorcyclists hold their very own event every September. This film follows a clutch of riders on pre-1916 machines, along their epic 3325-mile coast-to-coast voyage...   read more >>

Short Film: Modern Motor Cycle Company

Many believe the mid-20th Century was the golden era of the motor car; Christian Condo believes the same of its two-wheeled counterpart. He describes the motorcycle as “reliable and functional, but still humble and elegant”, and the company he founded recaptures this notion both in its motorcycles, and in this short film...   read more >>

Ridden: Husqvarna Nuda 900R

‘Nuda’ means ‘naked’ in Italian, writes Tom Stewart, and both the Nuda 900 and the higher-spec 900R tested here are the first of a new generation of motorcycles from Husqvarna...   read more >>

Short Film: The 'Milonga' Triumph by Café Twin

You need only to take a trip to Cannes over the next few days to find proof of how a few minutes of film can tug at the heartstrings. This offering from Italian motorcycle builder Café Twin is no different, and uses a simple formula of hand-built Triumph and beautiful woman, planted against a backdrop of quaint Tuscan countryside...   read more >>