A modern slant on classic racing. The legendary bikes and the courageous, talented heroes that mattered then and still matter now.
Erv Kanemoto looks tense during a Daytona pit stop. During that 1983 season, it became clear we were limited on how much further Honda could take the three-cylinder. We’d suspected that the Yamaha would be
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The youthful duo of Jock Taylor and Lewis Ward regularly made the long trek south to take on the best English sidecar men. Fergus Anderson won the solo 350cc world title in both 1953 and
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Derek Ennett – winner of the first 350cc race in 1955. As a result of a double win at the Manx, the club members decided there should be a race in the south of the
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Mick Grant during qualifying for the ill-fated Silverstone outing. Despite the disappointment Grant says he ‘wouldn’t have missed the experience for the world’. Grant had already decided that, after years in green, it was time
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Fans vent their anger at Sheene’s financial demands MCD, owners of Brands Hatch, Mallory Park, Oulton Park, and Snetterton, had reportedly failed to match the start money that Sheene commanded from Cadwell Park and Donington.
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From the first round, Le Mans in France, Villa made his intensions known, taking the chequered linen first, ahead of his Harley-Davidson team-mate Gianfranco Bonera. Villa continued where he left off when the Continental Circus
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In a memorable day’s racing Cadwell Park got its first sight and sound of Jim Redman and the factory Honda four, who unsurprisingly dominated the 250cc race, romping home 43 seconds ahead of NSU mounted
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While the large Dutch contingent in the 100,000 crowd went wild as their hero stormed to victory, with a 16 second lead over the American, Hartog’s Suzuki team-mate, Barry Sheene, was less pleased. Drafted in
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Honda RC181 race replica But even on the reps that fall into the good or less category it’s relatively easy to make them sound a little like the original thing, with four open meggas, but
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Manxman Conor Cummins BW: So how did the ride come about? CC: Paul Phillips – the TT and motorsport development manager – made it happen. He knew how keen I was to race a classic
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