Alan Cathcart

Down the years I’ve been privileged to track-test a vast array of different road racers, from dozens of factory MotoGP and 500GP bikes, through countless World Superbike contenders, to numerous …
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Il Dottore leaving us will be felt not only in the USA, where the bikes he created were raced successfully to three AMA National titles in the 1980s by the …
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Indian Motorcycle recently announced a limited edition 300-off 2024 version of its FTR 1200 model, inspired by its success in winning MotoAmerica’s Super Hooligan racing series in both …
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More than 70 years ago the Vincent Black Shadow delivered the most performance from a street legal series production vehicle that money could buy – on two wheels, or four. …
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As the name suggests, this book covers the history of the factory Ducati Superbike racers during the Desmoquattro era from 1988 to 2001, when the new generation Testastretta engine was …
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Decades on from his tragic death back in 1995, Kiwi visionary John Britten’s spirit of two-wheeled engineering self-sufficiency lives on. But it’s on the other side of the Tasman Sea …
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Nothing succeeds like excess – and by concocting the M 1000 R, BMW is doing its best to confirm the truth of that axiom in a two-wheeled context. How else …
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ELF, a French oil giant, became one of the biggest names in endurance racing and motorcycle innovation of the ’80s. At the head of this strange collaboration was one of …
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The Ducati Monster opened up a whole new world for the Italian brand. Pulling them out of a financial slump to become one of the most popular machines the brand …
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