MIKE HAILWOOD’S MACHINES

Motorcycle history is peppered with stars – Sir John Surtees, Giacomo Agostini, Jimmie Guthrie, Jimmy Simpson, Bill Ivy, Joey Dunlop, to name a few. But few – if any – riders were as promiscuous when it came to two wheels as Stanley Michael Bailey Hailwood.

This was a man who, in one day, could hop on a Mondial and then onto an NSU or switch between a 125cc Honda to a single-cylinder Norton within just a few laps. Now, as part of a four-part series, we’ll be celebrating the machines that made Mike Hailwood and the stories behind them

GILDED GRIT AND THE 125CC MV AGUSTA

Mondial, NSU, Ducati, Yamaha, Honda, AJS, Triumph, Norton, Itom, MV Agusta – the list of machines raced by Mike Hailwood is staggering.

And each of them reveals something of the time, the era and the driving forces in Mike’s career.

In the early years