With quality, performance and excellent design apparent in every detail, the 350cc Morini V-twins bore comparison with any Japanese motorcycle – but when the Italian firm upped the capacity to 500cc, it never quite managed
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Another brilliant Banbury Run – and it’sstill the biggest and best in the world!
Almost 500 riders took part in the Vintage Motor Cycle Club’s 68th Banbury Run, open only to VMCC members on pre-1931 machines, on Sunday, June 19 – down a little on the 600 or so
Read moreThe long-running Watsonian Palma range
Mick Payne looks back at the long history of the Watsonian Squire Palma range of sidecars, which were innovative at the time of their introduction and remain available to this day. I mentioned last time
Read moreTesting, testing! How the bike journos of old saw the Squariels
The uncanny flexibility of the Ariel Square Fours, from the 497cc and 597cc ‘cammies’ to the final pushrod-operated 997cc Mk. 2, always amazed those fortunate enough to road test these four-pot classics, as these excerpts
Read moreMade in Japan: Good try, Ducati – but sushi and pasta just didn’t mix!
Steve Cooper strays from the Japanese path once more as he examines the reasons why Ducati’s controversial ultra-short-stroke parallel twins were never going to succeed amid motorcyclists’ ever-changing expectations of the 1970s. Think of Ducati
Read moreKeeping the Vincent spares chain flowing
Old Bike Mart meets Ian Savage, manager of the VOC Spares Company Limited in Kettering, to learn how the imaginative joint venture sources and markets the spare parts, club regalia and even complete second-hand Vincent
Read moreHappy feet as Alt-Berg sticks with tradition
Mick Payne visits a Yorkshire bootmaker with a proud tradition, after the very comfortable and practical boots they made for him 20 years ago were swiped from under his nose. During our recent Team Katy
Read moreFrom the Archives: Square Four evolution
While little cannot already have been written about the Ariel Square Four, it takes only a brief look through the Mortons Archive to reignite the intrigue this distinguished British design has always generated, writes Pete
Read moreBuzzing along nicely, thank you
Proving that a bike doesn’t have to be big to give lots of pleasure, Ian McGregor introduces readers to the thriving National Autocycle and Cyclemotor Club. The National Autocycle and Cyclemotor Club is the oldest
Read moreFrom the archive: Bit on the side – Sidecar alignment: more tips from the experts
Mick Payne returns to Watsonian Squire as he continues to question professional fitters about the important topic of sidecar alignment. I think it was Keith Wash, of Unit Sidecars, who summed up alignment by telling
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