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.
Off-RoadGaston Rahier won three 125cc motocross world titles, then took a 1,000cc BMW boxer across the Sahara and won the Paris-Dakar in 1984 and 1985. He was so short he had to climb off at every stop.
LegendsWayne Gardner gave Australia its first 500cc world title in 1987, then won the first two Grands Prix at Phillip Island. The second came with a broken wrist.
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.
LegendsWayne Rainey won three straight 500cc world titles and was leading the race and the championship at Misano in 1993. He never raced again. This is the rest of his story.
Everything we publish, sorted the way you’d flick through a magazine.
11 storiesLegendsRiders, racers, builders and the characters who shaped two wheels.
12 storiesMachinesThe bikes that defined a decade, the odd engineering and the ones that got away.
9 storiesRacingGrand Prix, the TT, endurance and the paddock before it went corporate.
9 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.
