Classic Motorcycles

News and exclusive photos of the world’s best classic and vintage motorcycles. Essential browsing for enthusiasts and collectors, customizers and restorers, and petrolheads who love the looks and sound of older machinery.

Evocative articles and images of the most desirable motorcycles ever made, from old British iron to vintage Harleys to 1970s Japanese superbikes.

1930 Indian Four

This beautiful vintage Indian is owned by Buzz Kanter, publisher of the Harley magazine American Iron. During the hard times of the…

The White Mars motorcycle

The ‘White Mars’ is legendary within German motorcycling circles. It even featured on a Deutsche Bundespost stamp in 1983. So what’s so…

1974 Norton Commando 850

There’s something impossibly British about the color scheme of this lovely 1974 Norton Commando 850. I’m guessing it’s a Mark 2A model…

Sunbeam S7

By guest writer Diesel of Visual Gratification. Erling Poppe designed the beautiful Sunbeam S7 based on the BMW R75 of the late…

Matchless G80CS

This bike is almost sixty years old, yet it’s just as desirable today as it was in 1950. For starters, it’s one…

Victoria V35 Bergmeister

We’d never heard of Victoria motorcycles until photographer Colleen Swartz sent in this shot. Victoria was a German company that closed in…

Kawasaki Z900

Most people will say the Honda CB750 was the first true superbike. But a few will point to the Kawasaki Z1 Series…

1929 Majestic

This extraordinary French motorcycle from between the wars was spotted by Paul d’Orléans in Bavaria recently. He sums it up perfectly: “The…

1971 Honda CB450 K4

When I first saw this bike, I thought it was new—Honda jumping on the SR400 bandwagon and manufacturing an oldie for the…

Killinger und Freund

This is one of the most unusual motorcycles I’ve seen in a long time: it’s a ‘Killinger und Freund’ built in 1935…

Chang Jiang 750 M1

A reader from Sydney snapped this picture yesterday, and it got us stumped. At first glance it appears to be a 95-point…