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

Some brands are known by model names alone – Porsche for the 911, Hawker for the Hurricane. And so it is with Royal Enfield and the Bullet

RE dominate the modern retro market. We take one of their 650 twins for a Midlands sight-seeing tour

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The vibration is as extraordinary as the noise is deafening and we’re not even in the air. But I guess that’s what you get when there’s 1500bhp’s-worth of 27 litres of two stage supercharged, quad-cam

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