UK Motorcycle News & Stories
British Speedway Is Losing Its Tracks – Can It Survive?
Mike Bowden British speedway track closures future of British speedway Motorcycle Events
Wolverhampton, Peterborough, Birmingham and Coventry reveal that British speedway’s crisis is about more than falling crowds. Clubs are losing the specialist venues without which the sport cannot exist—but Northampton, Oxford and plans for Swindon suggest another future remains possible.
Talan Skeels-Piggins Breaks the 200mph Barrier
Mike Bowden adaptive motorcycling UK paraplegic motorcycle speed record Talan Skeels-Piggins Hayabusa The Bike Experience
Paralysed motorcyclist Talan Skeels-Piggins has reached 200.254mph at Elvington—but the engineering, teamwork and 11-year struggle behind the run matter more than the timing slip.
On This Day – 1923 – The BMW R 32 Created an Engine Identity That Survived a Century
Mike Bowden BMW Motorcycle Engineering motorcycle history On This Day
BMW did not invent the boxer engine, but Max Friz arranged it in the R 32 so successfully that riders still recognise the layout as BMW more than a century later.
When Is a Bultaco Really a Bultaco? China and the Revival
Mike Bowden Bultaco chinese motorcycles motorcycle history motorcycle industry
One new Bultaco is hand-built in Spain; another starts with a Chinese-manufactured Leonart platform. Both expose what motorcycle authenticity now means.
On This Day – 1904 – The Disputed Motorcycle Race That Led to the FIM
Mike Bowden FIM motorcycle racing history Motorsport regulations On This Day
France won the 1904 International Cup at Dourdan, but the arguments afterwards convinced five nations that motorcycle racing needed an international governing body.