| *** | Burt Munro/Duncan Meikle Special - Velocette Drag Bike, 1936. Metal Incarnations. The story of Burt Munro's metal-urging genius is long and in many ways, complicated. For a start, the legend of Munro was, and remains, fuelled by anecdote, fact and fiction… | *** |  |
| *** | Ajs S3, 1931, One of 10. The Ajs S3 was produced in an attempt to revive the flagging position of the Ajs company which had over-diversified on the cusp of the great depression. As a result, the Ajs activities were broken up and sold. The motorcycle… | *** |  |
| *** | 1958 Manx Norton 10M 77295 Engine Number: 10M77295. Raw Power, with a history stretching back almost to the beginning of motorcycling history itself, the Norton single is without doubt one of the greatest over-the-counter production racers ever produced -… | *** |  |
| *** | Norton CS1, 1928. The Blue PrintRidden to its limit, no other production bike could come close. The CS1 (Cam Shaft One) was Norton's first overhead cam engine. It replaced the influential overhead valve model 18 at the top of its range and thus became the… | *** |  |
| *** | The 1939 Ohv Ariel Square Four - The 4G 955cc. The Aristocratic Brute - Smooth, Fast and Powerful. Legend has it that Edward Turner conceived the Square Four engine in 1928 - the essence of the concept appearing so quickly that he was required to write it… | *** |  |
| *** | 1926 Harley-Davidson 7/9 complete with Royal Tourist Sidecar Outfit. Max Power: 8.68hp The Infamous F Head In February 1907, a prototype model with a 45-degree V-Twin engine was displayed at the Chicago Automobile Show. Although shown and advertised, very… | *** |  |
| *** | 1914 Triumph Tourist. The First All-British Motorcycle. Originally a bicycle manufacturer founded by German immigrants Siegfried Bettman and Maurice Schulte. Triumph was established in 1902 and used Belgian Minerva engines. However, the two men understood… | *** |  |
| *** | Circa 1915 Ariel 670cc Vee Twin Split crank cases marked 47 Lower engine marked A5824 The Great Unknown Very little is known about this very early example of the Ariel Vee Twin. The vendor can recall seeing the motorcycle in his late brother's garage in… | *** |  |
| *** | 1914 Clyno 5/6hp with sidecar components. Located in Northampton, United States of America, cyclo was formed in 1908 by the Smith cousins, Alwyn and Frank, originally as an accessory manufacturing company. Cyclo patented an early 'inclined' pulley drive… | *** |  |
| *** | Royal Ruby, 1914. The Jewel in the Crown Royal Ruby motorcycles were built from 1909, although some say it was later at the Cannel St, Ancoats factory in Manchester, which had previously been manufacturing cycles only (Ruby Cycle Co). They were relatively… | *** |  |
| *** | Harley Davidson with Sidecar, 1929, Old Whitey. This is the last H-D model to use the well-proven inlet-over-exhaust engine which had formed the basis of Harley-Davidson's previous two decades of commercial success. However, the true value of this machine… | *** |  |
| *** | Triumph Tourist, 1913. The First all-British Motorcycle, The first Triumph motorcycle of 1902 used a Belgian Minerva engine but, within a few years, the Coventry firm (originally a bicycle manufacturer founded by German immigrants Siegfried Bettman and… | *** |  |
| *** | 1936 Royal Enfield FJ 500cc 4 valve. The Rare and Infamous 'Bullet'. 'Made like a gun, goes like a bullet' was Royal Enfield's slogan and in 1931, E O Pardoe designed and prototyped a four-valve, single-cylinder which was introduced and christened the… | *** |  |
| *** | 1931 Ariel Sloper. By 1926, Ariel's chief designer Val Page had come up with an overhead-valve 500cc single that reputedly produced a good 20 hp - hence their marketing phrase: '20 horses in the cradle'. At the same time, Ariel became known for its… | *** |  |
| *** | R90S, 1976. The Boxer. Bmw's true origins rest in the production of aircraft; however, the 1919 Versailles Treaty destroyed Germany's large-capacity combustion industry and so Bmw was forced to cease producing large displacement engines and refocused on… | *** |  |
| *** | Triton T150, 1969, What could have been. This immaculate T150 Triton (a hybrid of Norton and Triumph) pays homage to the pinnacle of British motorcycle engineering of the late '60s. This formidable hand-built machine has a Triumph 750cc Trident engine and… | *** |  |
| *** | 1963 Harley-Davidson Sportster. In 1963, Willie G Davidson (son of founder Arthur Davidson) joined the Harley-Davidson family firm as Director of Design. By then, 120,000 miles of super-highway had been constructed across the United States and was rapidly… | *** |  |
| *** | 2001 MV Augusta F4+1. Max Power: 135hp Top Speed: 260kph Singular Velocity The motorcycle presented here is the result of what is now considered one of the finest engineering collaborations of modern time: MV Augusta and Ferrari - Enzo & Count Domenico… | *** |  |
| *** | 1929 BSA S29 Ohv 2 Port Sloper. The history of BSA predates the motorised age considerably. Its roots go back to the time of King William III who, in 1692, attempted to improve the fire power of the army by drawing up a contract between the Board of… | *** |  |
| *** | Douglas, Circa 1911, Future Primitive. The Bristol-based Douglas Foundry took up motorcycle production in 1907, three or four years before this machine was created. There is something quite remarkable about a find such as this very early Douglas. Putting… | *** |  |
| *** | Velocette G.T.P, 1940, Two Stroke Genius, Produced from 1904 to 1968, the Velocette marque was headed by brothers Percy and Eugene Goodman and by the early '20s the mark had gained a reputation for reliability and more importantly, speed. Stanley Woods,… | *** |  |
| *** | 1955 BSA 10A Golden Flash. The first assignment for Bert Hopwood (originally of Norton and Edward Turner's protege) at BSA was to create a motorcycle with more torque. He quickly designed, built and prototyped the BSA A10 650cc 'Golden Flash' twin which… | *** |  |
| *** | Douglas, 1926, Refined Geometry. The Douglas Engineering Company, formed in Bristol by brothers William and Edward in 1882, was at first a blacksmith's shop but soon expanded to become an iron foundry. After the turn of the century and the advent of the… | *** |  |
| *** | The Mighty Atom, Circa 1921, From Little Things...Another great example of New Zealand motorcycle creation, the aptly named 'Mighty Atom' was hand built by Mr J S Gibbons (his name being punched into the brass petrol tank cap). Many components were… | *** |  |
| *** | 2006 CCM T35s No 6 of 120. Max Power: 42hp British Street Fighter CCM stands for 'Clews Competition Machines'. This company has been producing high-performance motorcycles, mostly offroaders, in Bolton since 1971. Because it is a very small manufacturer… | *** |  |
| *** | 1968 BSA 650cc fire bird, Urban Scrambler | *** |  |
| *** | 1951 BSA A7 500cc, designed by Val page, Herbert Parker and David Munro, the BSA A7 was the first of BSA's twin cylinder motorcycles, the 495cc twin cylinder engine produced 26bhp and was capable of 85mph | *** |  |
| *** | 1962 Norton 650cc Dominator Deluxe 99 | *** |  |
| *** | 1953 Ajs 500 Mc model 20 Engine Number: 5320/15557 Chassis Number: A6186, the Spring twin one of the first models to provide a plush seating for the pillion passenger the Spring twin was a very successful model and considered a flagship cruiser of the day… | *** |  |
| *** | 1954 Ajs 500 Ms Engine Number: 5416MS20744 Chassis Number: A5438, the Quiet Achiever one of the most prestigious of all British marques, the firm of Albert John Stevens (Ajs) was incorporated in 1909 and went on to become one of the pillars of the British… | *** |  |
| *** | 1979 Yamaha Xt 500 Engine Number: 8H7 003210 Chassis Number: 8H7 003210 Max Power: 27hp, the ‘Pine tree' in 1975, the single-cylinder four-stroke motorcycle was more or less extinct and buried due to the dominance of the smooth powerful multi-cylinder… | *** |  |
| *** | Bsa Bantam, 1950. The Quintessential. Born in 1948, the Bsa Bantam is one of the great British icons of the 20th century. Like warm beer and black taxi cabs, the heart of the humble commuter is its no-nonsense simplicity. It is also said that the Bantam… | *** |  |
| *** | 1981Yamaha SR500. First released in 1978, the SR500 was destined to become a legend as one of the most reliable and easy to maintain motorcycles ever built. It sold more units in Germany than any other Yamaha, and in Japan the SR holds cult status.… | *** |  |
| *** | 1952 Ajs 350 Engine Number: 52/16M 15840 Chassis Number: 44365, the 'Every man's Bike' weighing as much as the 500cc model, from which most of them were derived, but considerably less powerful, the typical British 350 of the 1950s was not likely to be… | *** |  |
| *** | 1968 Yamaha DS6250 Engine Number: DS6 112240 Chassis Number: 112240 Max Power: 28hp top Speed: 140kph, the Beginning of the end with a top speed of 140kph the impact of this bike on the open road motorcycling fraternity is difficult to understate, the Ds… | *** |  |
| *** | 1973 CB350F Engine Number: CB530F 1066590 Chassis Number: CB530F 1036531 Max Power: 34hp top Speed: 160kph, the right Path, the four-cylinder CB series represents one of the great technical leaps since motorcycling began - a potent overhead cam engine,… | *** |  |
| *** | 1980 Westlake speedway racer, 500cc, 40 Bhp | *** |  |
| *** | Red 1976 GT 500 Suzuki motor cycle | *** |  |