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Luscombe Silvaire 8E: The original Light Sport Aircraft
Luscombe’s Silvaire 8E could be the original LSA. Two seats, light, small engine and thrifty, this 80-year-old aircraft still performs VISIT any of the big aero shows these days and the…
Ducati celebrates 100th year with retro Formula 73
In its centenary year, Ducati has done something rather lovely. Instead of chasing lap times, horsepower wars, or the latest aerodynamic origami, the firm from Borgo Panigale has reached back…
Pre-war Benelli 250 DOHC: intoxicating engineering
Few machines capture the intoxicating blend of engineering ambition and racing romance quite like the Benelli 250 DOHC. Benelli’s competition pedigree stretched back to the 1920s, when the…
Vintage Motor Cycle Club celebrates 80th anniversary
The Vintage Motor Cycle Club of Great Britain (VMCC) will mark its 80th anniversary in 2026, celebrating eight decades of preserving, riding and understanding historic motorcycles. Founded in…
Entries open for The Banbury Run 2026
Entries are now open for the 76th Banbury Run, which takes place at the British Motor Museum, Gaydon, Warwickshire on Sunday 7 June 2026. This is the flagship event of the UK’s Vintage…
Matchless Silver Hawk flies to $60k auction sale
More than $60,000 for a Matchless! That’s the result from the Mecum classic mogtorcycle auction in Las Vegas in January. Well, it is a very special Matchless, a 1934 Silver Hawk V4…
Over the ton and still going: 100+ years old Rudge and BSA
There’s something very appealing about motorcycles more than 100 years old. The century or ‘ton’ is a milestone in cricket, speed, and probably several other activities.…
World’s biggest classic motorcycles auction: Mecum Las Vegas 2026
The world’s biggest auction of classic motorcycles is the Mecum Annual Vintage & Antique Motorcycle Auction. In 2026, more than 2,000 motorcycle of all types will cross the auction…
Classic motorcycle racing pioneer Rob Iannucci RIP
Robert ‘Rob’ Iannucci, one of the world’s most passionate and influential men when it came to racing classic motorcycles from the ‘golden age’ of racing – early-1950s to mid-1970s in his view…
Stolen: Rare Riley sold as ‘1970s Special’ at auction
One of only two surviving Riley motorcycles dating from 1904 has been stolen from the great-grandson of the man who designed it. The 1904 Riley 3.5 Hp Moto-Bi was stolen from inside a locked…
Smoky Treasure: Charlie Sanby’s TT Ducati 750SS
Ducati’s 750SS is already one of the most mythical motorcycles of the 1970s —mgreen-framed, bevel-driven and built in the smallest of numbers. But when one turns up with proper Isle of Man TT…
Raw and Raucous: 1975 Ducati 900 Super Sport
Somewhere around the mid-1970s, Ducati fever overtook me and half of the motorcycle world. Paul Smart’s win at the ’72 Imola 200 had lit the fuse, and the factory’s road-going 900SS was the…
