Tracing 50 years of the BMW RS story from R 100 RS to R 1300 RS
BMW Motorrad has marked 50 years of the RS badge, tracing the sport-touring line from the original 1976 R 100 ...
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2026 Festival of Italian Motorcycles (FOIM)- Illustrated brief recap
2026 Festival of Italian Motorcycles With Alec Simpson The 2026 Festival of Italian Motorcycles (FOIM) is done and dusted, excellent ...
Inside the New FIM Racing Motorcycle Museum Opening in Switzerland
FIM Racing Motorcycle Museum opens in Switzerland with World Championship icons The FIM Racing Motorcycle Museum will officially open its ...
Moto Guzzi Le Mans – Moto Guzzi’s most famous road bike
1977 Moto Guzzi 850 Le Mans Series II Among Moto Guzzi’s road-going motorcycles, none is more closely associated with the ...
The 350/4 that saw MV Agusta exit Grand Prix racing…
MV Agusta's 1974 350/4 The MV Agusta 350/4 occupies a unique and historically significant place in Grand Prix racing, as ...
Moto Guzzi was the first motorcycle company to take aerodynamics seriously…
Motorcycle Aerodynamics Moto Guzzi 250 Gambalunghino Aerodynamics plays a central role in modern MotoGP, but its importance was not always ...
Bartali – Another obscure Italian manufacturer but one with a great story…
Gino Bartali & Bartali Motorcycles With Phil Aynsley I do not have many photographs of this particular machine, but while ...
Collie to host Aussie Historics in 2026 – September 25-28
2026 Australian Historic Road Racing Championships The Australian Historic Road Racing Championship (AHRRC) is returning to Western Australia in 2026, ...
“Like racing a demented ball bearing” – Lambretta Monotubo
Lambretta Monotubo Ferdinando Innocenti commissioned aeronautical engineer Corradino D’Ascanio to design a cheap and clean two-wheeled vehicle to provide post-war ...
Suzuki RGV500 – Kenny Roberts Jr. 2000 championship winner in feature
Suzuki RGV XR80 Kenny Roberts Jr.’s Championship Winning Bike This is Kenny Roberts Jr.’s Suzuki RGV XR80, the machine on ...
Garelli Motorcycles – An illustrated history
Garelli Motorcycles Engineer Adalberto Garelli established his company in Milan in 1919 after a decade of steadily accumulated experience in ...
Eddie Lawson’s Daytona 200 winning Yamaha FZ750 – Feature Story
Yamaha FZ750 0U45 Eddie Lawson's 1986 Daytona 200 win When the chequered flag fell at Daytona in March 1986, it ...
Images from Historic Road Racing Champs at Broadford – Gallery A
2025 Australian Historic Road Racing Championships Images AHRRC Broadford - Gallery A
Three days in Japan that bridged Yamaha’s past and future
Yamaha 70th Anniversary Celebrations Yamaha Motor Australia, via Yamaha Motor Co. in Japan, recently extended an invitation to spend three ...
The Roton RGP-588 Rotary Grand Prix racer in pictorial
Roton RGP-588 Rotary With Phil Aynsley A little-known chapter in 500cc Grand Prix racing history unfolded in the early 1990s ...
Is this the most iconic modern MV Agusta?
MV Agusta F4 1000RR With Phil Aynsley The 2011 MV Agusta 1000RR was a major update to the 750 F4 ...
MV Agusta 750 Sport America in feature
MV Agusta 750S America With Phil Aynsley MV Agusta has long seen the advantage of continually releasing slightly revised models ...
Eddie Lawson’s ’86 Championship winning 0W81 Yamaha
1986 Yamaha 0W81 With Phil Aynsley In preceding years lots of development changes were made to the YZR, then 1982 ...
The less than successful Morbidelli 500/4 GP Racer
The Morbidelli 500/4 Ambition Meets Harsh Reality With Phil Aynsley One of the more curious entrants in the 500cc Grand ...
Ducati’s most attractive 85 single, the Sport
Ducati 85 Sport Ducati’s entry into the motorcycle world began in 1946 with the tiny but hugely important Cucciolo, a ...
The stunning Ducati 1098 powered Bimota DB7
Bimota DB7 With Phil Aynsley Introduced in 2008 after only taking a reported 12 months from drawing board to production ...
Only a handful of Beta 250 GS motorcycles were imported to Australia
Beta 250 GS With Phil Aynsley Beta was founded in 1904 by Giuseppe Bianchi and initially focused on manufacturing bicycles. ...
Ducati’s most basic motorcycle – The Rolly
Ducati Rolly Moped With Phil Aynsley Undoubtedly the most basic model Ducati ever produced was the Rolly - a marked ...
Mike Hailwood BSA Rocket 3 Replica
BSA Rocket 3 Mike Hailwood Replica With Phil Aynsley What you see here is a “recreation” of the BSA Rocket ...
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