Posts By Alan Cathcart

Brough Superior, founded in 1919, was the so-called Rolls-Royce of Motorcycles, the manufacturer of the world’s fastest, most desirable and exclusive motorcycles in the pre-WW2 era. Just days after the …
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Brough Superior are known for their pre-WW2 record breaking bikes. Back in 2013, I took a very special Brough Superior to the Bonneville Salt Flats in search of a record. …
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Though absent from Grand Prix racing’s premier class for the past 47 years, MV Agusta is still Europe’s most historic and successful racing marque. MV have changed owners a few …
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It was a show-stopping sensation when last year on the eve of the annual EICMA Milan Show, it was revealed that MV Agusta, wholly owned since 2019 by Russian investor …
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Up until 2023, MV Agusta has been entirely Russian-owned since Timur Sardarov, 40, completed his family’s acquisition of the historic Italian brand in September 2019, with a further injection of …
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It’s exactly 30 years since Kawasaki won Superbike’s World crown for the first time, courtesy of American Scott Russell, the cool-dude Georgian rider once memorably described as ‘so laid back, …
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MotoBi, born out of a family dispute between the Benelli brothers before being absolved by the Benelli brand and brought to success in racing at the hands of Primo Zanzani. …
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Even by the standards of Italy’s etceterini array of little-known marques back in the 1950s, MotoBi is an obscure subplot to the ongoing soap opera that the ever-changing panorama of …
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Massimo Laverda had a finger on the pulse of the motorcycle market, leading other companies in making bikes people wanted to buy. We dive into Laverda’s 3C 1000 triple – …
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Future 500GP World Champion Marco Lucchinelli began racing internationally on the Laverda 3C 1000 at just 20 years old in 1975 – an arrangement that happened almost by accident… Laverda …
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