Classic Racer

Words: Stuart Barker Photos: Don Morley Mick Doohan and the Honda NSR500 formed the most formidable and successful partnership of the 500cc era of Grand Prix racing that ran from 1949 until 2001. The NSR scored a total of 133 GP wins between its int

Words: Alan Cathcart Photos: Kel Edge Rob North bronze-welded duplex frame in Accles & Pollock T45 steel tubing. This is an original frame that was crashed at Oulton Park in the 1971 transatlantic meeting and went on to be the bike’s frame jig upon w

Photographs: The Hanks archive Roy: The reason they gave me the No.1 plate that year, 1997, was that Dave Molyneaux, who’d won it the year before, had gone on to GPs. I said: “Is there any chance I could be No.1?” as it was obvious it was never goi

Words: Bruce Cox Pictures: Archive images and modern image of Frank Scurria courtesy of the Frank Scurria collection, studio images of the 350 by Phil Aynsley “FRANK BEGAN A SUPERB RESTORATION OF A BIKE THAT’S NOW ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT DUCATI

Words: Alan Carter Photos: Don Morley Debut season in the GP... making history at Le Mans... ones that got away. THE 1983 season promised to be a great year for me and that’s how it proved. I had everything going for me. I was in the 250cc grand pri

Memo on Ginger Molloy. Nice story on Ginger in the last issue, remembering his long and successful career with the ‘continental circus’! As it is with a lot of personal remembering dating far into history, the sight on facts has turned to the very op

Words and photographs: Jan Burgers In 1971 he scored three GP wins on the ex-Stuart Graham 125 Suzuki at Spa, Belgium; Anderstorp, Sweden and Imatra, Finland. He’d even won the 50cc GP in Brno, Czechoslovakia, as guest rider for the Van Veen Kreidle

Words: Norm DeWitt Photography: Image of Radar today, Norm DeWitt. All others Mortons Media Archive, except where stated Dave ‘Radar’ Cullen got the motorcycle bug early in life. “There was always an interest there as my brother had some motorbikes…

Words: Hamish Cooper Photos: Phil Aynsley Troy Corser and Colin Edwards were the headline act at the 25th anniversary of the International Island Classic, but Aussie Davo Johnson stole centre stage and the party’s silverware. He tore the heart out o

Double TT winner and well-known TV presenter Steve Plater was the guest of honour at the sold-out CRMC annual awards and dinner/dance, held at the usual venue of the Mercure Daventry Court Hotel. Kevin Hunt and Alan Cracknell retained their Sidecar R

Kevin Schwantz may have started his road race career with Yoshimura Suzuki in 1985 at Willow Springs on a Yoshi GS750ES, but it was the result of that brace of first-time races that marked the moment rather than the fact that a young buck (just 20 ye