The 125 that escaped Suzuki’s crusher. John Nutting describes how the exotic Suzuki RS68 125cc four, the last works racer of the 60s, was liberated from obscurity
Things couldn’t have been tighter in the third Anglo-American Match Races, run over a cold and sometimes damp Easter weekend in 1973...
Team Paton was the most enduring privateer effort in Grand Prix racing, with a presence in the world’s top championship, which began in 1967 with the four-stroke twin-effort and, with a short break, ran through until 2001. Malc Wheeler rides the last of the great privateer GP bikes...
Enthusiast Bob Chapman is reluctant to reveal what sacrifices he made in order to purchase this 1954 350 Clubman’s TT International Norton, but he was happy enough to tell Tim Oliver the story...
A few big bore Yamaha XS650 versions found their way into sidecar outfits but, as far as solo racing was concerned, other more suitable machines were available. However, such rules do not necessarily apply in the world of the classic clubman...
After an enviable run of TT and Manx Grand Prix results Nigel Rollason, with the late Donny Williams holding down the third wheel, finally stood on the top step of the TT podium after the second leg of the 1986 Sidecar TT, and in doing so made history...
Three decades on from his Grand Prix racing departure, Graeme Crosby took the time to talk to Classic Racer about one or two moments that have stuck with him ever since…
By the time the continental circus reached Spa Francorchamps, high in the Ardenne, in July 1956, the season was in full swing and the championships taking shape...
Registering the first MV double in the Isle of Man for precisely 40 years, Alan Oversby made a perfect return to the Pre-TT Classic after missing the 2011 event with a broken wrist...
There are almost as many Honda RC181 four race replicas around these days as Honda have built road bikes. And they range from fantastic, like the RC181 featured here, down to ‘really shouldn’t have bothered’. Malc Wheeler takes up the story...
May/June 2013 - Issue 161
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