THE ENTERTAINMENT and general biking misbehaviour zone on Douglas Prom during TT is moving back to its traditional home outside the huge Bushy’s beer tent near the ferry terminal for 2008.The giant Duke video screen will return, as well as a full

It was with much excitement – displaced or not – that my freshly rebuilt 1976 SR500 Yamaha fired into life at the second kick this weekend.I say second kick.It was actually the thirty second kick – thirty of those spent frothing up a heady sweat

Spotted this delicious Z1000 on bubblevisor’s site, the other day. It is living proof that metallic brown paint is the new black. As is the case with some of these blog sites, there’s very little or no information about the bike, just a pic

decision is whether or not to go for a basketcase and restore it yourself, or buy the best example you can find. In the first case the cost of restoration usually far exceeds what it would have cost to buy a good one, especially if you have to source

.The best route to finding your bike is a mate of a mate who has one in the back of his garage, which hasn't moved for umpteen years. Offer him a pittance to take it off his hands. I got my RD350 Ratbike like this, for £200! Failing that try eBay, look

that would have the rider of a new GSX-R1000 reaching for his second-hand buyers guide. You could opt for the ballistic straightline performance of something like a 1990 or older Suzuki GSX-R1100 or an early Kawasaki ZZ-R1100. Other choice recent-ish bikes

A 1929 BROUGH Superior has sold for a staggering £286,000 at a recent UK motorcycle auction.The legendary V-twin was sold by H&H auctions, having been restored between 2000 and 2001. Since its restoration, the seller claims the Brough has been used

Spanish design house Bel & Bel have combined a Vespa with a rotating chair.The Vespa scooters are salvaged from scrap yards by Bel & Bel, restored and then turned in to the swanky avant-garde chairs.via design-milk.com

DONINGTON Park motor racing circuit owner, Tom Wheatcroft, has died following a long illness.Wheatcroft, who was 87 years old, bought Donington in 1971 for £100,000 and set about restoring the circuit. He bought the European Grand Prix to Donington

AN ORIGINAL example of the world's first motorcycle is to be put up for auction at The International Classic Motorcycle Show, Stafford on 25th April 2010.The twin-cylinder, four-valve, water-cooled, 1488cc Hildebrand & Wolfmüller was built in 1895