Ian Mann’s Lambretta SX200 wears its 51 years on its panels, on its unpainted headlamp cover and on its chipped and scarred legshields and mudguard. The plumbing and heating engineer from Norfolk knows every dent, every scratch, and how that
It’s 1959, and Brian Higgs, a teenage Teddy Boy, has fallen hook, line and sinker for a Norton International. Six decades later and Brian, now 77, is just as smitten with the bike that’s been with him virtually his whole
Motorcycling journalist and author Bruce Preston has owned his BMW R60/2 since 1964 and, now in his 80s, still rides it regularly. Over many years as a road tester for Motorcycle Sport magazine, it became his benchmark, the bike by
As a teenager in the early 1960s, when British bikes still ruled the roads, Bob Warner only had eyes for the big Harleys from across the Pond. It was an era when motorbikes, or scooters if you were on the
April 1964. The Beatles were top of the charts with Can’t Buy Me Love, BBC Two hit our screens with Play School, and mods and rockers were months away from clashing at Brighton. Down in Fareham on the south coast,
The Triumph TR6 was a motorbike made for adventure. Famed for its role in the chase scene in The Great Escape, the bike later nicknamed the “desert sled” also boasts a distinguished competition history. And while Steve Jones can’t quite
