Classic Racer

Things had been growing tense in the world of motorcycle racing – on the riders’ side frustrations were rising to almost pique in Grand Prix. Riders were fed up with a promoter-biased recipe of dangerous tracks and poor money. By the late 1970s Kenny

It may have been spied in the opening year of the 1960s, the reality was that the 250 Benelli four did not actually race competitively until April 1962, with the machine debuting at Imola in the hands of Silvio Grassetti. The race may have been under

Monocoque-framed bikes – in which the fuel is carried within the chassis, not in a separate tank – have been the next big thing for more than half a century, ever since the 250cc Eduardo Giró-designed Ossa made its GP debut in 1968 in the hands of Sa

I think it might have been me who called it ‘the cardboard box’, and the name stuck. Because that is what the chassis most resembled – a sharp-cornered structure of folded planes, in a sandwich material. The sheets enclosed aluminium honeycomb rather

There were some brilliant technnical minds working with Italian racer Graziano Rossi in 1979. The owner of the team he was riding for was Giancarlo Morbidelli. This was at a time when Morbidelli was a small manufacturer that in the mid-1970s had won

Minnovation Racing first started back in 2004, as an offshoot of its main business Minnovation Ltd which specialises in mining equipment. Although it might seem like a slightly strange transition from the outside, a sincere love of classic motorcycle

Having already put himself in the record books at the Ulster Grand Prix and North West 200, being the first rider to take a hat-trick at each, the Cheshire rider eventually took a hugely impressive 16 international road race wins only for a crash at

Exactweld is a business partnership formed in the late Seventies by Guy Pearson and John Baldwin. Providing specialist welding facilities and expertise to industries such as medical equipment suppliers, they invested heavily in top-grade welding equi

Ex-Grand Prix racer Jeremy McWilliams and Aaron Morris, one of Australia’s most under-rated riders, took Aussie classic racing to a new level at Sydney’s QBE International Festival of Speed. In dry conditions on the first day of racing, their titanic

Anything can happen when two goliaths take to the track in search of victory, especially when the ultimate prize is on Australia’s most famous circuit. It’s one thing to win at Bathurst, yet quite another to be first across the finish line after what