Sixty Bikes For Sixty Years!

The Greatest Bike of the last 60 Years is about to be announced

MCN has caused a huge mix of celebration and consternation over its 60 years by shooting from the hip when it comes to saying whether a new motorcyle is good, bad or indifferent.

And to mark 60 years of publication, thousands of you have been voting for the bike you think should be crowned king - 1955-2015.

The debate has been raging since we launched the campaign in March, but the voting has now closed.

There are some brilliant bikes included in the list of 60 contenders and there are many that didn't make the cut - although many of you have argued their merits.

The result of the epic vote will be announced in a very special issue of MCN in September. Make sure you pick up the September 16 issue of the paper to see the results and also to see who has come out on top in the Greatest Racer of the last 60 Years.

Again, thousands of votes have poured in and there will undoubtedly be a few surpirses when the roll of honour is revealed in that September 16 issue! Don't miss it.

Andy Calton
MCN Editor 

 

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60 Greatest bikes: 1966 MV Agusta 600GT

60 Greatest bikes: 1966 MV Agusta 600GT

It’s widely considered to be one of the ugliest motorcycles ever built – thanks in no small part to the huge Fiat car headlamp bolted incongruously onto its nose. But the 600GT is also one of the...

60 Greatest Bikes: 1960 BMW R69S

60 Greatest Bikes: 1960 BMW R69S

Based on the more sedate 35bhp R69 that was produced from 1955 to 1960, the R69S benefited from BMW’s extensive racing experience by that time and shared some of that race technology. The R69S...

60 Greatest Bikes: Honda C100 Super Cub

60 Greatest Bikes: Honda C100 Super Cub

Originally designed as a cheap and basic form of transport for the masses, the C100 was such a sales success that derivatives are still in production today, some 57 years after the Super Cub...

60 Greatest Bikes: BSA DBD34 Gold Star

60 Greatest Bikes: BSA DBD34 Gold Star

The Gold Star took its name from famous racer Wal Handley’s achievement of lapping the banked Brooklands circuit at an average speed of 100mph in 1937. He was awarded a Brooklands Gold Star for the...

60 Greatest Bikes: Ariel Square 4 Mk2

60 Greatest Bikes: Ariel Square 4 Mk2

Ariel’s Square 4 – affectionately dubbed the ‘Squariel’ – had a lengthy production run stretching from 1931 to 1959 but the classic Mark 2 model was only built during the between 1953 and 1959. The...

60 Greatest bikes: Vincent Black Shadow Series C

60 Greatest bikes: Vincent Black Shadow Series C

When MCN was launched in 1955, the Vincent Black Shadow Series C was arguably the most iconic motorcycle in the world, and Vincents in general were regarded as the finest motorcycles of the time. And...