History

More than 70 years ago the Vincent Black Shadow delivered the most performance from a street legal series production vehicle that money could buy – on two wheels, or four. …
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Though absent from Grand Prix racing’s premier class for the past 47 years, MV Agusta is still Europe’s most historic and successful racing marque. MV have changed owners a few …
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It was a show-stopping sensation when last year on the eve of the annual EICMA Milan Show, it was revealed that MV Agusta, wholly owned since 2019 by Russian investor …
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Aussie motorcycle racing has produced its fair share of inimitable characters, but there aren’t too many with the enormously endearing features of ‘Mr Superbike’ himself, Rob Phillis. We take a …
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It honestly feels like yesterday I was writing the first update on my Benelli Leoncino 800 Trail long-termer. But, here we are at month number two! The Leoncino has been …
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After the surprise call from Suzuki race boss legend Masayuki Itoh offering Mladin a spot on the factory Yoshimura AMA Superbike Team for the 1996 season, it seemed as if …
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There’s a valid case for stating that the Ducati Monster is the single most important motorcycle to be produced anywhere in the world since the original Honda Super Cub debuted …
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On March 10 1972, Carol & Mate Mladin welcomed Mat Mladin into the world at Camden Hospital, NSW, Australia. The proud parents didn’t know it at the time but their …
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Legend has it that Dick Mann’s Daytona 200-miles win on a factory-built Honda Formula 750 racer in March 1970 represented when Japanese in-line fours first established their domination of production-based …
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Just over twenty years ago, on December 13, 2001, the motorcycle world lost one of its greatest free thinkers and most innovative engineers, when 46-year old Frenchman Claude Fior was …
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