No. 02November 2026
Wheel is an independent magazine about vintage motorcycles: the legends, the machines, the races and the desert, made with the 69,000+ riders who follow @wheel.magazine. Send us your bike, or that old photo of your father's, and it goes on the garage wall.
Bikes and stories sent in by the Wheel community, from every corner of the map. Pin yours up.
The best ones go in the book.
Legends, machines and the stories that never made the brochures.
MachinesThe Moto Guzzi V7 Sport took a heavy shaft-drive touring twin, wrapped it in a hand-built red frame and made it one of the fastest production motorcycles of 1971.
RacingOn 14 May 1961 a 21-year-old from Tokyo slipstreamed his Honda team-mate on the last lap at Hockenheim and became the first Japanese rider to win a Grand Prix.
Off-RoadA Barcelona film-projector company and a rider from Derbyshire built the Ossa MAR. Mick Andrews won the Scottish Six Days Trial on its prototypes in 1970, 1971 and 1972, and the replica is still ridden today.
RacingYamaha told Phil Read and Bill Ivy who would win which title in 1968. By Monza the deal was dead, the two were level on points, and a stopwatch picked the champion.
Everything we publish, sorted the way you’d flick through a magazine.
10 storiesLegendsRiders, racers, builders and the characters who shaped two wheels.
11 storiesMachinesThe bikes that defined a decade, the odd engineering and the ones that got away.
8 storiesRacingGrand Prix, the TT, endurance and the paddock before it went corporate.
8 storiesOff-RoadEnduro, motocross, trials and desert rallies. From the Six Days to the Dakar.Pick a decade. Stories, rider bikes and listings from the same years.
New bikes and stories every day at @wheel.magazine. And if yours has a story, send it in: it might end up on the wall, or in the book.
