Articles for Memorable Motorcycle Street
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.
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, August 03, 2004
Tritons were a bike of their age - but some 40 years later new versions of this most famous "special" are still being created.
Tuesday, July 06, 2004
There is no question that Colin Seeley was by far and away the most successful British chassis manufacturer - yet, outside the racing world, he is scarcely known.
Monday, June 07, 2004
If there is one classic bike name which still carries immense weight it is the BSA Gold Star. It was the definitive hyper-sports bike of its day.
Wednesday, May 05, 2004
Of all of the impressive works of the Honda engineers, the CBX goes down as one of the Japanese manufacturer's best bikes ever.
Monday, April 05, 2004
Conceived in 1932, The P&M Panther remained in production well into the 1960's and holds a special place in the history of motorcycles.
Monday, March 08, 2004
By 1951 BSA sold more than 50,000 Bantams making it one of the most successful machines of its generation.
Friday, February 13, 2004
By 1949, Norton's flagship Grand Prix race bike - and therefore its single most important marketing tool - should have been consigned to the museum.
Tuesday, January 13, 2004
If the Japanese launched the Ariel Leader today, with a modern four-stroke engine, it would most likely be considered a stunningly creative and radical design.
Friday, December 05, 2003
There's no argument the Japanese have led the motorcycling world in terms of producing efficient, reliable machines as far back as the 1960s.
Friday, November 07, 2003
Soichiro Honda wanted to show the world what his factory could build if it had a no-holds-barred attack on making a super-sports bike. The RC30 was that bike.
