Rare Rickman Rocket III
Rickman Rocket III With Phil Aynsley For those that like their British motorcycles “sporting” here is an excellent example of ...
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British GP and Senior TT winning XR34 Suzuki
Heron Suzuki GB Team XR34 M1 Racer With Phil Aynsley This is the first of the M1 “Full Floater” mono ...
Yamaha XS1100 based endurance racer
Claude Fior XS1100 Endurance Racer With Phil Aynsley Claude Fior’s earliest endurance design utilised a Yamaha XS1100 engine. The bike ...
Bob Brown four-valve Ducati TT2
Ducati four-valve TT2 With Phil Aynsley Less well known than the two-valve Ducati TT2 based racer that Kevin Magee used ...
Freddie Spencer’s 1991 Two Brothers Racing Honda RC30
Honda RC30 With Phil Aynsley This particular Honda RC30 is Freddie Spencer’s back-up bike from 1991. That year saw Spencer ...
Kawasaki A1-R 250 rotary valve racer
Kawasaki A1-R 250 With Phil Aynsley The 250cc A1-R was released in 1967 and was closely based on the A1 ...
1972 Malanca Testa Rossa 50
1972 Malanca Testa Rossa 50 With Phil Aynsley Mario Malanca established the firm in his workshop, producing motorcycle wheel hubs ...
1986 Merlin DG3 350 | In Italy and the US the Merlin DG3 was sold as a Cagiva
1986 Merlin DG3 350 With Phil Aynsley Here is a Spanish rarity! A 1986 Merlin DG3 350. 1986 Merlin DG3 ...
Malaguti Olympique V5
1975 Malaguti Olympique V5 With Phil Aynsley Malaguti is one of the few old Italian manufactures to have survived and ...
Ducati 350 Utah | A single-cylinder prototype
Ducati 350 Utah With Phil Aynsley I mentioned a few columns back that I had photographed a second rare bike ...
A short history of Italian motorcycle marque Ceccato
Ceccato With Phil Aynsley Ceccato (Italian bike builder number 586 you’ve probably never heard of), was founded by Pietro Ceccato ...
CZ Type 851 350 cc racer
Leonard Fassl's 1953 CZ Type 851 350cc With Phil Aynsley Ceska Zbroiouba was founded in 1918 as an armament manufacturer ...
1997 Aprilia RSW-2 | Twin-cylinder 500 GP Aprilia
1997 Aprilia RSW-2 Racer With Phil Aynsley Aprilia designer/engineer Jan Witteveen was the first to take advantage of the rule ...
A look back to 1988 when WorldSBK raced at Oran Park
WorldSBK at Oran Park in 1988 With Phil Aynsley A bit of a look back at the first year of ...
1968 Ducati 500 parallel-twin prototype
1968 Ducati 500 parallel-twin concept With Phil Aynsley In the last column (link) I made brief reference to the two ...
Ducati’s 500GTL parallel twin
Ducati's 500GTL parallel twin With Phil Aynsley The oil crisis of 1973 convinced Ducati’s management of the time that a ...
1981 Yamaha TZ500H ‘0W’ 500 Grand Prix ‘customer’ bike
1981 Yamaha TZ500H '0W' racer With Phil Aynsley Yamaha only produced a customer racer version of their 500cc GP bike ...
Yankee 500 Z Adventure Motorcycle
Yankee 500 Z By Phil Aynsley The Yankee 500 Z was the product of the Yankee Motor Company based in ...
1957 Moto Guzzi 350 Bialbero DOHC | 98 kg racer
1957 350 Bialbero DOHC With Phil Aynsley The 1957 350 Bialbero (DOHC) was the pinnacle of Giulio Carcarno’s minimalist design ...
Laverda Corse 1000 3C endurance racer
Laverda Corse 1000 3C With Phil Aynsley With Laverda’s new 1000 3C triple entering production in 1972, the company began ...
1938 Matchless 250cc G2MC
1938 Matchless 250cc G2MC With Phil Aynsley What you see here is possibly the only example of the 1938 Matchless ...
MV Agusta 750 S ‘Sport’
MV Agusta 750 S 'Sport' With Phil Aynsley The unprepossessing MV Agusta 600 Four soon faded from the catalogue to ...
MV Agusta 600 Four
MV Agusta 600 Four With Phil Aynsley Ugly is the word usually used to describe MV Agusta’s 600 Four! However ...
The Rumi four-stroke prototypes and Felice Rolla
Felice Rolla concept 'Rumi' motorcycle With Phil Aynsley While Rumi is best known for its 125cc horizontal parallel twin 2-strokes ...
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