John McGuinness Is Returning To Honda For The 2022 Road Racing Season And Will Compete At The North West 200 And Isle Of Man TT. The 23-Times TT Race Winner Will Line-Up Alongside Honda BSB Rider, And...

In 1939, the world’s most spectacular motorsports event became a propaganda exercise for the Nazis....

As war clouds gathered in 1939, the German government was determined to boost national prestige by dominating every international sporting event, and the TT races were no exception. The 1939 Isle of...

The single-cylinder Nortons and Velocettes continued to hold the foreign invasion at bay in 1938. Between 1931 and 1937 Norton had six Senior-TT wins with the long-stroke CamShaft One (CS1) engine....

The tide was slowly turning against the British singles, although Norton kept the flag flying in the Senior and Junior races in 1937. Lightweight TT There was a Continental success in the Lightweig...

Woods returned in 1936 without the Moto Guzzis as a result of Italy’s involvement in the war in Abyssinia. Naturally, he still had the pick of the best machinery and joined Ted Mellors and Ernie Thom...

Stanley Woods always had a new trick up his sleeve and he arrived on the Island for the 1935 races (in the middle of a general strike) armed with 250 and 500cc Moto Guzzi’s - and a new teammate, Omobo...

In the early 1930s, Moto Guzzi badly needed a new design to replace its team’s elderly 500cc 4-valve singles. Guzzi’s 250cc single was dominating the 250 GP class, and it had a compact unit-constructi...

For the 1934 Isle of Man TT Races despite the winning of four TT Races in 2 years, Stanley Woods parted with Norton motor-cycles over the issue of prize money and race tactics and joined Husqvarna alo...

New Imperial, though not one of the larger Birmingham firms were one of the keenest supporters of the Isle of Man TT Races. They had become addicted to the annual challenge to riders and technicians s...

Norton broke even more records in 1933 by achieving the very first one-two-three in both the Senior and the Junior races. There was no stopping them - or Stanley Woods, who grabbed his second double,...

The Norton-Rudge battle continued in 1932, but, once again, it was Norton who emerged on top, leaving Rudge empty-handed after their unexpected defeat in the Lightweight class. The 1932 Isle of Man T...

The full potential of Rudge’s four-valves-per-cylinder design was slow to emerge, but in 1928 Graham Walker’s works 500 became the first motorcycle to win a road race - the Ulster Grand Prix - at an a...

Interest in the races was intense, with the entry of 153 machines including 22 different makes. Eight foreign factories entered, but Britain still ruled the roost, albeit for the time being. The 1931...

The TT was now gaining great international media attention: for the first time the BBC broadcast part of a race (the Senior), and entries were received from 19 countries, no doubt attracted by the new...

I continue a series of posts about the history of TT races, unfortunately this time I couldn't find many photos, but enjoy what you guys have! thank you to everyone who reads, well, let's start! Sen...

The iconic Isle of Man TT Races have been decimated by the Coronavirus pandemic, having been cancelled in both 2020 and 2021, but far from complaining about the situation the organisers have used the...

‘CG 1150’ has been widely accepted since the mid-1930s as the machine ridden to victory in the 1928 Lightweight TT by Frank Longman. The OK’s history between 1928 and the early 1930s is not known but...

A tragic accident in 1927 led to changes in the practice regulations. Practice took place on open roads, allowing residents to go about their daily business, and riders were left to take their own pr...

The 1927 Isle of Man Tourist Trophy saw more changes occur with a fatal accident during practice to Archie Birkin, a brother to Tim Birkin of the Bentley Boys fame. The corner in Kirk Michael where th...

Further changes occurred in the 1926 Isle of Man Tourist Trophy with the scrapping of the Ultra-Lightweight TT Races from the lack of entries and Side-Car TT, because the manufacturers still unhappy a...

The 1925 Isle of Man Tourist Trophy was the second and final year of the Ultra-Lightweight class for motorcycles of 175 cc capacity. Handley in the Ultra-Lightweight race, for which there were only s...

In 1924 the ACU introduced the of the Ultra-Lightweight class for motorcycles of 175 cc capacity that was run only twice, in 1924 and 1925. This was the second year of the Sidecar race that would also...

The 1923 Isle of Man Tourist Trophy saw the introduction of the first Sidecar TT race over 3 laps and proved an instant hit with enthusiasts. Sidecars were a popular mode of transport and the factori...

The 1922 Isle of Man Tourist Trophy introduced a new race, within a race, for 250 cc motorcycles called the Lightweight TT, to be run concurrently with the already-established Junior 350 cc that took...

The 1921 Isle of Man Tourist Trophy Junior 350 cc race took place on Tuesday 14 June and the Senior 500 cc was on Thursday 16 June. In this year AJS redeemed themselves by completing a hat trick, tak...

The ACU had insisted on a minimum of 30 entries for each race before agreeing to a resumption of the TT in 1920, and decided to introduce a new Lightweight class for 250 cc machines, which would be in...

The 1914 Isle of Man Tourist Trophy was the last held before the outbreak of the First World War and remembered as the event in which the big thumping singles fought back in their constant battle with...

The TT had survived its first crisis, and any doubts about the future were firmly dispelled a year later when 147 riders entered the 1913 event....