The contributors often signed their pieces with pseudonyms such as Torrens (Arthur Bourne, one of the Editors)[1] and the famous Ixion (Canon B.H.

As a magazine-format, space was limited[3] and although road-race and off-road sport reportage was always present, Motor Cycle enjoyed a reputation more as a technically based periodical.

Harry Louis, editor of Motor Cycle, stated in the last magazine format dated 3 August 1967: "You'll get it a day earlier, on Wednesdays.

With about twice as much space as in this issue, the new Motor Cycle brings you all the features you expect plus much more extensive coverage of sport and news.

These enthusiasts who, basically all-rounders but with specialized interests when they punch their typewriters, form the most experienced, knowledgeable and liveliest bunch of motor-cycling journalists ever in our field.

[5][6] By the end of the same decade, Dixon Racing became the UK concessionaires (importer) for the early Bimota frame kits – 'KB1' for Kawasaki 1000, 'SB1' for Suzuki 1000 and 'HB2' for Honda 900 donor engines.