Creg Ny Waaahhh - Ago's TZ350
My Instagram video reminded me how excited some were when the Yamaha RD350LC arrived: a “TZ or the road” they said. They were wrong and...
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Greg Pullen
- Feb 1, 2021
- 2 min
The first ton up TT
This is Michael Dunlop at the 2017 Classic TT about to a the parade lap to mark 60 years since Bob McIntyre set the first 100mph lap of...
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Greg Pullen
- Jan 9, 2021
- 1 min
The World's fastest (1920) Indian
This is Gene Walker, who set the first officially sanctioned Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM) record in 1920, when rode...
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Greg Pullen
- Sep 29, 2020
- 2 min
Imitation as flattery
Not many people realise it, but all De Tomaso era four-stroke Benellis such as this 504 were built in the Moto Guzzi factory on Lake...
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Greg Pullen
- Sep 26, 2020
- 2 min
Sei that again Joey?
Honda didn’t build the only sixes to race on the Isle of Man, and they didn’t have a monopoly on Joey Dunlop. In 1979 Joey raced a...
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Greg Pullen
- Sep 26, 2020
- 2 min
Small and Dirty
This is the Regolarità, Ducati’s final 125 and two-stroke. In 1975 Pat Slinn was service manager for the UK importers and was asked by...
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Greg Pullen
- Sep 26, 2020
- 2 min
One day in June
This is Pat Slinn, watched by a very happy Steve Wynne, removing the carburettors on Mike Hailwood’s TT winning Ducati after various...
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Greg Pullen
- Sep 26, 2020
- 2 min
Replicati
It’s easy to be seduced by the Mike Hailwood Replica’s looks, and just as easy to be cynical. Just two years after its launch, sales of...
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Greg Pullen
- Sep 26, 2020
- 2 min
To the Winner the Prizes
Pete ‘PK’ Davies with the trappings of success, including his Alfa GTV. Tyres were a big deal in the Avon series but, rather...
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Greg Pullen
- Sep 25, 2020
- 1 min
It's a frame up - and a third hit single
Multiple British sidecar champion Colin Seeley bought AMC’s racing department when the company went bust in 1966. The year before he’d...
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Greg Pullen
- Sep 25, 2020
- 2 min
The tricky follow up single
The Matchless G50 – effectively a 500cc version of the AJS7R - was immediately popular and, like the 7R, while slightly less...
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Greg Pullen
- Sep 25, 2020
- 1 min
Hit single
The AJS 7R was launched in 1948, a 348cc SOHC single that looked remarkably like an updated Velocette KTT, although that was hardly...
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Greg Pullen
- Sep 25, 2020
- 1 min
Porcupine on the run
Les Graham with the E90 version of the Porcupine at Braddan Bridge, in the 1950 Senior TT. Photo from Bill Snelling and available in a...
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Greg Pullen
- Sep 25, 2020
- 2 min
The only twin that wins
The AJS Porcupine won the inaugural 500cc world championship, the only time a twin cylinder motorcycle has won the top flight 500 /...
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