Classic Bike March 2022

The ISDT was always motorcycling’s Olympics, a six-day endurance event that presented competitors with all kinds of off-road (and sometime on-road) challenges. The issue has taken on something of an ISDT theme, thanks largely to Sammy Miller’s recent acquisition of the Ken Heanes 500cc Cheney Triumph. Sammy is planning a special ISDT area in his superb museum down in New Milton, so we asked him to allow us to ride the Heanes bike, while featuring some of other really special ISDT bikes he already has in the collection. Rick P got in on the act, too, with his project 3TA, which was always intended as a street scrambler - but now it’s nearly finished, it could easily be mistaken for an ISDT replica. Just see how closely Rick’s work resembles Triumph’s…

Welcome ON THE TRAIL OF TRIALS HEROES BAUER ARCHIVE The ISDT was always motorcycling’s Olympics, a six-day endurance event that presented competitors with all kinds of off-road (and sometime on-road) challenges. The issue has taken on something of an ISDT theme, thanks largely to Sammy Miller’s recent acquisition of the Ken Heanes 500cc Cheney Triumph. Sammy is planning a special ISDT area in his superb museum down in New Milton, so we asked him to allow us to ride the Heanes bike, while featuring some of other really special ISDT bikes he already has in the collection. Rick P got in on the act, too, with his project 3TA, which was always intended as a street scrambler - but now it’s nearly finished, it could easily be mistaken for an…

Imagine creating the highest motorcycle museum in Europe and acquiring 362 of the most desirable bikes on the planet one by one, before losing everything to a monstrous fire. And after going through all that, managing to rebuild everything within a year. It sounds like a plot for a movie script, but Top Mountain Motorcycle Museum, a building of stunning architectural design set in the dramatic surroundings of the Ötzaler Alps, has reopened its doors after just such an ordeal. It’s all thanks to the efforts of its creators, twin brothers Attila and Alban Scheiber, and their friend/consultant and collector Mark Upham, the man who rebuilt the Brough Superior brand. Nestled in the snow of Hochgurgl, a town in the mountains of the Austrian Tyrol, the museum was quietly sleeping on…

MARCH 2022 MUSEUM Summit special A year on from a devastating fire, Top Mountain Motorcycle Museum located in the Austrian Alps has been re-opened after being fully rebuilt WORDS AND PHOTOGRAPHY BY FABIO AFFUSO Imagine creating the highest motorcycle museum in Europe and acquiring 362 of the most desirable bikes on the planet one by one, before losing everything to a monstrous fire. And after going through all that, managing to rebuild everything within a year. It sounds like a plot for a movie script, but Top Mountain Motorcycle Museum, a building of stunning architectural design set in the dramatic surroundings of the Ötzaler Alps, has reopened its doors after just such an ordeal. It’s all thanks to the efforts of its creators, twin brothers Attila and Alban Scheiber, and…

Published to mark last year’s centenary of the foundation of this legendary company, Moto Guzzi Factory Racers by CB contributor Alan Cathcart includes not only the complete technical evolution and racing history of the fabulous 500cc V8, but also all the bikes which preceded it. That includes the factory’s world title-winning 250cc and 350cc singles, as well as its various 500cc contenders. The book covers the history of the Moto Guzzi factory Grand Prix racers up to 1957, when the company withdrew from racing at the end of that season, having won the 350cc World Championship for the fifth successive year. It also includes Cathcart’s personal riding impressions of two of the most significant models in Guzzi’s racing history – the 500cc wide-angle 120° V-twin Bicilindrica, and the iconic V8 Otto Cilindri…

BOOK REVIEW Moto Gurri Glorious Guzzi guide Internationally renowned journalist and CB contributor Alan Cathcart’s latest book covers the history and heyday of Guzzi’s factory race bikes ILLUSTRATIONS AND PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY OF FBA Published to mark last year’s centenary of the foundation of this legendary company, Moto Guzzi Factory Racers by CB contributor Alan Cathcart includes not only the complete technical evolution and racing history of the fabulous 500cc V8, but also all the bikes which preceded it. That includes the factory’s world title-winning 250cc and 350cc singles, as well as its various 500cc contenders. The book covers the history of the Moto Guzzi factory Grand Prix racers up to 1957, when the company withdrew from racing at the end of that season, having won the 350cc World Championship for…