The first edition was self-published in 1978 by Tim Parker (who had bought his first Laverda in 1974) and sold for almost exactly 20 years. This new edition is exhaustively revised and updated with Phil Todd, who for nearly 30 years was Britain's best-known Laverda mechanic through his companies, fi[...]

Ever since boys' comics were first published in the middle years of the nineteenth century, they have offered readers fun, adventure and escapism. As participation and attendance at sports events rose dramatically in the early years of the twentieth century, so boys' comics focused more and more on [...]