Motorcycle Features

Like a nightclub bouncer ripped to the tits on bodybuilding steroids, the big Suzuki was not to be messed with. Unless you were rock hard...

The San Marino Grand Prix, 4 September 1983

Handbuilt in Japan by HRC and available to Fogarty, Hislop and Joe Bloggs, the RC30 was, and is, a little bit special

Every year the great and the good of motorsport gather for a weekend of period dress and vintage racing at the Goodwood Revival

Gone but not forgotten, Kim Newcombe was set for GP superstardom on an unheard-of one-off bike - until fate dealt a tragic hand

Motorcycles aren't all about going fast - sometimes they go up vertical walls instead. Whit blags a go on Dougie Lampkin's trials bike and wishes he was somewhere else

These four bikes were meant to turn motorcycling on its head but they never did. Wozza dons his rose-tinted goggles to ponder why

Tearing a groove in to a field with an adventure in the world of grass track racing

Niall Mackenzie reminisces about the final race of his 20-year career

Cool For Being Uncool - He was unlucky, fat and ugly with a thick Brum accent - an unlikely hero

Thrumming through the early Eighties gloom, Yamaha's Powervalve inspired young bikers and future racers alike

1989 was a vintage year for hoodlum teenagers worldwide because this was the year Suzuki unleashed the RGV250, the purest and most race-bred two-stroke track tool ever to make it into a showroom

Everyone loves a pull with Ponch. He even kept junk food in a little plastic lunchbox in his pannier

MotoGP is about to see another change with a move to a 1000cc engine limit, this change is seen with excitement. Here we look back at the trepidation of the four-stroke GP before the class changed in 2002

When it comes to being famous, Elvis Presley can probably claim to be second only to the Good Fella above. But God didn't (in fact) ride a Harley-Davidson

If you're totally serious about winning the hardest of the real road races - the notorious Macau GP and Isle of Man TT races - you need the evilest, fastest, trickest machinery available.

Spiked tyres, sub-zero temperatures, exotic facial hair and home-made armour - this ice racing is snow joke

Much-loved and much maligned, the Norton Commando both saved and then helped to kill the British bike industry

Meet Dr Costa. He's a very passionate Italian who has spent the past 30 years at motorcycle races fixing up racers who crash. Here's his story

When our Whit and his Belgarda Yamaha team-mate Paolo Casoli crashed and still finished 1-2 at the 2002 World Supersport race at Silverstone

Where Honda led, others followed. Enter Yamaha's wannabe RC30-beater, the OW01

From a small shed in a small town in a small country at the very bottom of the world came an old man and an old bike - to capture the most remarkable world speed record ever

It's the bike that was once parked outside chip shops across the land. Here we look at the Fizzie and all of its 4.8bhp. Long live pedal power!

The inter-war years in Britain were no time or place for vegetartians or animal lovers