Classic Racer

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The UK scooped a total of 10 medals in this year’s FIM Europe Vintage Road Race Championship that hosted rounds in Germany, Sweden, Croatia and the UK. Richard Peers Jones took the gold medal in the Forgotten Era 350 class, silver medals went to Pete

Climbing aboard I straightaway discovered that Eric’s motorcycle was quite unlike other such bikes of the early Seventies that I’ve ridden. Painted in its patriotic French livery, the Baranne-sponsored Kawasaki monocoque’s seat is quite low, giving y

“It all started when I met Barry Ryason, the first editor I came across. He was racing with his son down at Thruxton and we met in the paddock, got talking about this and that and I mentioned I wrote bits for the Royal Enfield Club magazine – I was r

By the time his career entered its second decade in 1966, Mike Hailwood had won four World Championships, seven TT races and taken innumerable other victories riding no less than 26 different types of bike from 15 manufacturers! Over the next dozen y

Britain’s Peter Williams is rightly thought of as the paragon of such talented virtuosos, and by personally conceiving the John Player Norton Monocoque, which he then rode to victory in the 1973 Isle of Man TT, he’s made sure of his place in the reco

As the young guns faltered due to mechanical issues, Australia’s grizzled old warhorses stepped up to hold off a determined Team USA and retain the International Challenge trophy. Steve Martin and Shawn Giles, originals from the early days of the Isl

When Kenny Roberts arrived from the USA in 1978, he was Barry Sheene’s bitter rival on the track. The two had previously crossed swords at the Daytona 200 and the Transatlantic Trophy races, and after Steve Baker had fallen short in 1977, Yamaha repl

“It was a frightening machine at the time. Along the mile-and-a-half main straight on the test track, the bike would stand up on its back wheel all of the time as it sailed over the gentle rises in fifth gear. Put it into sixth gear and it would rear

It all started in a small border town in McAllen, Texas. “My dad, Gary Wise, was a very successful real estate broker, and he loved motorcycles, taking me riding all the time. He was ahead of his time and loved the light two-strokes. All his friends

An unlikely circuit on the outskirts of a small Australian town was the country’s mecca of motorcycling for decades until the late 1980s. As well as being a showcase of local talent from its beginnings in the 1930s, the mountain circuit hosted some o