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.
LegendsYamaha told Phil Read to let Bill Ivy win the 1968 250cc title. He refused, won it on total race time, and became the first rider to win 125cc, 250cc and 500cc titles.
Off-RoadMontesa's first production trials bike rolled off the line in Esplugues in April 1968. Within a month the Montesa Cota 247 was on the podium in Scotland, and within two years it had made Don Smith European champion.
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.
RacingIn June 1966 Jim Redman beat Giacomo Agostini at Assen on Honda's new 500 while Mike Hailwood crashed. Eight days later, a puddle at Spa ended Redman's career.
Everything we publish, sorted the way you’d flick through a magazine.
12 storiesLegendsRiders, racers, builders and the characters who shaped two wheels.
13 storiesMachinesThe bikes that defined a decade, the odd engineering and the ones that got away.
10 storiesRacingGrand Prix, the TT, endurance and the paddock before it went corporate.
10 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.
