MOTO Retro
A little more than 21 year ago in May 1999, a glossy magazine called MotoRetro launched featuring retro and classic styled machines and a bit of exotica. The magazine featured some fine journalism from the likes of Alan Cathcart, Julian Ryder and Dave Minton, and was edited by Rowena Hoseason and Frank Westworth. It deserved to succeed but ended after only 18 issues.
In a way, MotoRetro was before its time. The market for modern-type naked bikes was just reinventing itself with bikes like the Ducati Monster, Back then apart from the Kawasaki W650, Harleys and l:nfiekls~ very few retro bikes existed. Nowadays you only have to look at Triumph with an entire range, Ducati with its Scrambler series, Enfield, a multitude of Japanese offerings, the reinvented Chinese based brands such as AJS and Benelli and you realise that everybody is at it.
The first three editions of featured a Ducati Monster 900 Dark that was a prize in a reader competition. The Monster was ridden and run in by the staff, written about in favourable
