Motorcycle Classics

Remember the classics through the Street Bikes of the ’50s, ‘60s, ‘70s, and ‘80s series, Pre-War Perfection and the magazine archive. Also included in this package are the MC 2023 calendar and hat. Enter for a chance to win this package valued at $13

More than just a bike show, The Quail Motorcycle Gathering is something special. An ever-changing lineup of bikes in a beautiful setting on the greens of the Quail Lodge & Golf Club in Carmel, California, The Quail is the highlight of many a motorcyc

Talk about serendipity! Right after I finished proofreading Requiem for a Big Bear (March-April 2023), a random ad popped up on the "Yamaha Two Stokes 1955-1979" Facebook group. It was for this 1965 Yamaha YDS3-C (aka Big Bear Scrambler), a complete,

It was a trip to Europe by Soichiro Honda and company finance director Takeo Fujisawa that led to the development of the Super Cub. While Honda-san was more interested in European race bike technology, Fujisawa was looking for a killer product that w

December 1958: “This new product from Japan will have, no doubt, a great appeal among the medium-weight motorcycle devotees of America.” So began Cycle magazine’s Road Test No. 99 featuring a new Honda motorcycle that the report described as “one of

The 1913 Thor Model U gracing these pages resides at the Franklin Automobile Museum in Tucson, Arizona (see this issue’s Destinations, Page 70). It is an original motorcycle with a fascinating history. During its 110-year life it has been a running m

So quiet is the Mojave at dawn, that it could be a deprivation chamber instead of a desert. The cool air is hauntingly still, and smells and tastes blissfully pure. Benevolent streaks of sunlight dart over the barren horizon, kissing your cheeks soft

Elvis’s film Roustabout was, for the most part, panned by the critical press when released in cinemas on November 10, 1964. But that doesn’t matter to motorcycle enthusiast Michael Wysocki, of Dallas, Texas. Michael grew up listening to Elvis’s music

Enjoy stunning, classic motorcycles year round with the new Motorcycle Classics 2023 calendar! This calendar features glossy photographs of your favorite classic bikes from Ducati to Suzuki, BMW to BSA and more. This calendar will look perfect in any

Royal Enfield has launched the first spinoff models in its best-selling range of 650 twins it debuted in 2018, when it started building its first twin-cylinder motorcycles to be made in India. Powered by the same air/oil-cooled 8-valve 648cc parallel

As the post-Covid return to something approaching normality continues to unfold, there are some events which sadly won’t be returning to brighten our lives just yet. One of these should have taken place Down Under over January’s Australia Day weekend

When Jean-Pierre Pradères found a Velocette Viper Scrambler for sale in France, he didn’t have visions of powering through dusty deserts and banging elbows with AJS 16CS or BSA Gold Star Catalina riders. “I’m too old for that,” admits Jean-Pierre. “A

In many ways, the Italian motorcycle industry in the 1930s mirrored Britain’s bike makers of that time. Benelli, Bianchi, Guzzi and Gilera all produced single-cylinder 4-stroke street bikes with various levels of sophistication in the 250 and 500cc

The virus lay dormant for 30 years. Then, in 2002, an eBay auction for a Bultaco Metralla appeared. Specifically, the auction was for a Mk2 250cc Metralla, this one in European spec and located in Ontario, Canada. In a moment of weakness I bought it

My oldest brother, Rob, lives in Vermont. Lush forests and picture-postcard dairy farms blanket the Green Mountain State, a mostly rural region favored by close proximity to major metropolitan and cultural centers like Montreal, Boston and New York C

5/12 The third annual Possum Vintage Motorcycle Gathering, a swap meet and show for all makes of vintage bikes, will be held again at the Sevier County fairgrounds in Sevierville, Tennessee. Bikes and parts at least 25 years or older are welcome. On

The Franklin Auto Museum has been called Tucson’s best kept secret. I believe it; I have been to Tucson many times and the museum was news to me. So was the Franklin automobile. I had never heard of either. Industrialist Herbert H. Franklin owned a d

The 19th edition of the Comprehensive Vintage Motorcycle Price Guide contains over 160,000 prices for over 105 different motorcycle marques in six different conditions. Through hundreds of hours of research and data entry, formed by the opinions and

As comedian Steve Martin would say during his stand-up skits, “Hey, let’s get small…” In this case we’re going to shrink into the world of Pocketbike racing, a form of powersport (treating the term loosely here) competition that originated in Asia in