Articles by Mike Ryan

A rare 'motor tricycle' from the 1890s was one of the highlights amongst the motorcycle lots on offer at Bonhams' auction at the National Motor Museum, Beaulieu on September 8.

Yamaha's Factory Racing Team will run a special 'Race-Blu' livery for the Misano and Aragon MotoGP race weekends. The livery will also be available on selected 2013 model Yamaha road bikes.

Honda Australia have announced that the 2013 model of their top-selling CBR250R will be available in popular Repsol Honda livery.

With the City of Ipswich National Tour 2012 for veteran vehicles almost underway, enthusiasts of pre-1919 motorcycles won't want to miss the Tour's dedicated display day, which is on Sunday, September 16.\n

Following an exciting round 11 of the 2012 eni Superbike World Championship at the all-new Moscow Raceway, the teams returned to familiar territory for round 12 of the championship, but the race weekend was no less dramatic.

The Ton Up Boys motorcycle club proudly present 'Ride With The Rockers 2012' on Sunday, October 7th. This year's ride marks the 16th consecutive annual rally for the Ton Up Boys since the club was established since the early '90s.

As a restorer, rider and enthusiast of vintage motorcycles, Chris Knoop, is about to take on a motorcycling challenge that's sure to make other fans of vintage bikes green with envy - the 'Motorcycle Cannonball Endurance Run' for pre-1930 motorcycles.

Kawasaki have revealed their 2013 Kawasaki Ninja 300, an updated version of the popular Ninja 250 (EX 250R) starter model that the 'green brand' are confident will return them to number 1 in the sales charts. A TBC September release date has been set for the new model.

2003 marked what was arguably the biggest-ever running of the Geelong Speed Trials. Given the large number of motorcycle entrants that year, dominated by a rare appearance from the New Zealand-built Britten, and the record-setting run of Josh Brookes on the factory Honda CBR 1000RR Fireblade, you may have missed entrant No. 9 in the Period 3 class.

In a little over a year since its initial unveiling in mid-1948, BSA's Bantam had became not only one of the Birmingham firm's most popular models, but also one of the most successful across the entire British motorcycle industry.

Harley-Davidson's 2008 model lineup boasted a number of new models, and arguably the most interesting was the FLSTSB 'Cross Bones', which was part of the 'Dark Customs' range.

The handiwork of Nigel Petrie has already been featured with JUST before. In the December 2011 issue of JUST PARTS magazine, we took a closer look at Nigel's work-in-progress Toyota Hilux ute purpose-built for drift competition. While still working on that beast, Nigel took time out to apply his ideas and impressive fabrication skills to two wheels.