Ángel Nieto won 13 world titles and 90 Grands Prix, but never once called it thirteen. How a kid from Vallecas turned Spain into a motorcycling power.
Read the storyLegends, machines and the stories that never made the brochures.
MachinesYamaha built the XT500 for weekend riders in the Californian desert. Its French importer took it to Africa and won the first two Paris-Dakars. Fifty years of the big single that started adventure biking.
Off-RoadDakar 1979 put bikes, cars and trucks in one classification. A 22-year-old on a Yamaha XT500 trail bike, with his father as support crew, beat every one of them.
LegendsKevin Schwantz won more Grands Prix than Wayne Rainey, but only one title to his three. Hockenheim 1991 shows why his number 34 was retired with him.
RacingAt the 1977 Dutch TT, privateer Wil Hartog started tenth on a wet Assen grid and became the first Dutchman to win a 500cc Grand Prix, 5.9 seconds ahead of Barry Sheene.
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.
4 storiesLegendsRiders, racers, builders and the characters who shaped two wheels.
4 storiesMachinesThe bikes that defined a decade, the odd engineering and the ones that got away.
2 storiesRacingGrand Prix, the TT, endurance and the paddock before it went corporate.
2 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.
