No. 02November 2026
An independent magazine about vintage motorcycles: the legends, the machines, the races and the desert. Made with the community that started on Instagram.
Legends, machines and the stories that never made the brochures.
Off-RoadIn September 1981 four Americans nobody in Europe rated took the Trophée des Nations in Lommel's sand, then the Motocross des Nations at Bielstein by a single point. Europe never had the event to itself again.
LegendsMike Hailwood won nine world titles and 14 TTs. The win people still talk about came at 38, on a Ducati, after eleven years away from the Isle of Man.
MachinesIn 1969 the Honda CB750 Four put four cylinders, a front disc brake and an electric starter on a bike almost anyone could afford. The motorcycle world spent the next decade catching up.
Off-RoadAt the ISDT 1964 in Erfurt, four Californians on Triumphs, Steve McQueen among them, led the Silver Vase for two days behind the Iron Curtain. A ditch and a broken ankle ended it on day three.
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.
Everything we publish, sorted the way you’d flick through a magazine.
6 storiesLegendsRiders, racers, builders and the characters who shaped two wheels.
7 storiesMachinesThe bikes that defined a decade, the odd engineering and the ones that got away.
4 storiesRacingGrand Prix, the TT, endurance and the paddock before it went corporate.
4 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.
