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.
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.
MachinesSammy Miller and Bultaco built the Bultaco Sherpa T in 12 days. In 1965 it became the first two-stroke to win the Scottish Six Days Trial, and trials riding was never the same again.
RacingErnst Degner's 1961 defection from East Germany cost him the 125cc world title by two points. The MZ secrets in his suitcase gave Suzuki its first world championship a year later.
LegendsÁngel 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.
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.
5 storiesLegendsRiders, racers, builders and the characters who shaped two wheels.
6 storiesMachinesThe bikes that defined a decade, the odd engineering and the ones that got away.
3 storiesRacingGrand Prix, the TT, endurance and the paddock before it went corporate.
3 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.
