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-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.
LegendsKenny Roberts never wanted to race in Europe. In 1978 he went anyway, beat Barry Sheene and became the first American 500cc world champion at his first attempt.
MachinesThe Harley-Davidson XR750 was a near-disaster in 1970. Rebuilt in aluminium, it won 28 of 37 American dirt-track titles and carried Evel Knievel over rows of buses.
LegendsIn 1985 Freddie Spencer won the 250cc and 500cc world titles in the same year. Nobody has done it since, and Spencer never won another Grand Prix.
Everything we publish, sorted the way you’d flick through a magazine.
9 storiesLegendsRiders, racers, builders and the characters who shaped two wheels.
10 storiesMachinesThe bikes that defined a decade, the odd engineering and the ones that got away.
7 storiesRacingGrand Prix, the TT, endurance and the paddock before it went corporate.
7 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.
