Frank Melling
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Our Memorable Motorcycles expert, Frank Melling also is the organizer of the British vintage motorcycle extravaganza known as Thundersprint. If you get passed on the track by a beautiful Matchless G.50 - you just met Frank.
Friday, March 10, 2006
This month Frank takes a closer look at the BSA Bantam Sports, a bike that was behind the times before it was even manufactured.
Tuesday, January 03, 2006
In 1965, BSA set out to build the best motocross bike the world had ever seen.
Tuesday, January 03, 2006
Our Memorable Motorcycles' standby Frank Melling, kicks off the new year with a look back at a bike which stirs up memories of his former racing glory - the Suzuki TS250.
Wednesday, November 02, 2005
In the early sixties the Triumph Speedtwin emerged as the bike of choice for the gentleman motorcyclist.
Wednesday, October 12, 2005
Before the exotic RC45 and RC30 came the last of Honda's inline-Four homologation special Superbikes, the CB1100R.
Wednesday, September 14, 2005
Frank Melling focuses his attention this month on the Cyclemaster, a little machine that brought about big change to cultural life of Britain.
Friday, August 12, 2005
Very rarely, there appears a bike which engenders affection - a motorcycle which is the true embodiment of the mechanical horse. The Suzuki PE 250B was one of these special machines.
Wednesday, July 06, 2005
It's not just the mediocre performance, or appalling reliability, which takes the Ural to the very top of the worst motorcycle ever chart. Rather, it is the militant lack of care with which the bikes are built.
Wednesday, June 01, 2005
By current standards, the Suzuki T500 does not look like an engineering masterpiece - but nearly 40 years of hindsight is a wonderful thing.
Wednesday, May 04, 2005
In our May issue of Memorable Motorcycles, we'll take a look at the little Yamaha FS1, also known as, the Fizzy.
Friday, April 01, 2005
It is difficult today to imagine just how big a company BSA was at its peak. At one time, in the mid-1960s, the BSA group was the tenth-largest company in Britain.
Tuesday, March 01, 2005
It is often the case that the best example of a bike is found at the very end of the model's life. This is certainly true of the 450 Desmo Ducati.
Thursday, February 10, 2005
Everything about the Greeves Sportsman is crude and amateurish. Despite that is has been severely beaten with the ugly stick you still can't look away and that's why its here.
Tuesday, January 11, 2005
The time is 1948 and Europe is coming out of its nine years' of a nightmare of crushing depression. Things are beginning to stagger back to normality and, in the bike racing world, this means racing: enter the 7R.
Monday, December 06, 2004
Technically advanced, beautifully finished and with dynamic, original styling the 345cc disc-valved twin was state of the art when launched in 1966.
Tuesday, November 02, 2004
After sixty years of being a world leading innovator and manufacturer Velocette was beginning to look like a living industrial museum with designs and production techniques dating back to the 1930s.
Tuesday, October 19, 2004
Take a trip to Donington for round nine of the 2004 MotoGP season then we will turn back the hands of time and compare it to the 1966 Dutch TT at Assen where then teenager Frank Melling got his first taste of Grands Prix.
Tuesday, October 12, 2004
The Triumph Adventurer is one of the great, "If only..." stories of the British motorcycling industry.
Monday, September 13, 2004
The story of the 1974 360 "Mikkola" Husqvarna is a fascinating one. At that point in time, motocross was big business - especially in the open class.
Tuesday, August 10, 2004
Take a trip to Donington for round nine of the 2004 MotoGP season then we will turn back the hands of time and compare it to the 1966 Dutch TT at Assen where then teenager Frank Melling got his first taste of Grands Prix.
