Massively inclined engine, five valves per cylinder and almost vertical intakes. So is Yamaha’s FZ750 something truly special?

THE WORLD’S GREATEST BIKES

Sidecars have always been a hotbed of ingenuity, exuberance and grit. We unearthed these extreme chair-mounted exponents in our archive

In the years just after the Second World War, motorcycle production in Britain, and indeed most of the Commonwealth, was dominated by prominent British manufacturers who had a stranglehold on the mark

They started making bikes in 1901… and now make more bikes with the famous name on their tank than ever before. That’s got to be worth celebrating

Because motorcycle engineering is beautiful