Classic Motorcycle Mechanics

Colour me bad

Win on a Sunday and sell them on a Monday isn’t just a cheesy cliché that applies to selling motorcycles, it’s also true of those sponsor or race-inspired paint jobs that have adorned sportsbikes over the decades.

The trend started in the 1970s when manufacturers began to knock up replicas of bikes raced by names like Mike Hailwood and Phil Read. The ill-fated Honda Phil Read project wasn’t much more than a

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