One summer day, I decided to drive from Tokyo to Kyoto in my 50cc racing kart. It would be a 24-hour endurance race on the Edo-Kyoto highway. I turned on the engine and hit the road without thinking ...

‘Spoon’, ‘130R’, ‘Hairpin’, ‘S Curves’. The corner names at Suzuka have prescriptive, unembellished quality. Except for… Degner. For a brief time in the 1960s, Ernst Degner was a proverbial thorn in ...

Honda's current 50cc offerings are more associated with efficiency and affordability than outright speed or motorsports. The Honda Ruckus, for example, is inexpensive and fuel-efficient but it's not a ...

The tiny 50cc racing engine was taken out of its frame and, while still hot, placed on the rear seat of the top-of-the-range Toyota Crown car. Soichiro Honda, founder of the great Honda empire, ...

Harry has been writing and talking about motorcycles for 15 years, although he's been riding them for 45 years! After a long career in music, he turned his hand to writing and television work, ...

Saturday and Sunday the 11th and 12th of June, is round 3 of the British 50cc Racing Endurance Championship at Elvington near York. It’s only £5 for spectators for both days! Saturday is practice and ...

Jim Pink, of Wallingford, is one of the best-known motor dealerships in Oxfordshire. But, in his younger days, Jim, the founder of the company, started out as a motorcycle dealer and was a regular ...