Check out the 1910 Features list where you’ll find a delightful Edwardian tale involving a chap, his lady friend, a jinxed tricar and a 25-hour trek from Dorking to Esher (which, for those unfortunates who do not live in Surrey, is about 12 miles). After which join the man from The Motor Cycle at the Paris Salon. C’est très joli! And there are the highlights of the TT: pictures, blow-by-blow accounts, gossip and an interview with the winner.

Todays’ uploads, all in the 1911 Features section, comprise a report on the gruelling ACU Six Days’ Trial, an entrancing essay by Ixion about some of his mishaps in the earliest days of motor cycling, and a thrilling Christmas yarn about a motor cycling bank clerk who saves the nation from a dastardly German plot.

In case you thought custom bikes were a recent arrival on the motor cycling scene, you ought to read about Oily Karslake and the unique bike he built in 1903. He built well: it’s still in regular use.

Latest additions: Contemporary reports on the Scottish Six Days’ and London-Edinburgh trials, packed with tales of resourcefulness under adversity; and a selection of accessories including the Quidos Sidecar Foot-Muff. Don’t leave home without one.

Just uploaded: a cornucopia of stories and pictures from 1912, including interviews with three top riders who reveal their most exciting rides and some roadtests.

Today’s additions: A moving poem about knights in armour and a dragon-powered motorcycle (in the poetry section, where else?); with more yarns and pictures from 1912.

ALL A BIT random but among new material in 1903 you’ll find a report on the Glasgow-London trial with some cool pics of the four survivors; 1912 is the year I’m working on at present so more stories and pics are being uploaded daily (including an 814cc single-cylinder lady-back tandem from Connecticut).

THREE MORE features have been uploaded to the 1903 page. All aboard! How to mount a motor cycle tells you how to start a bike without a kickstart, let alone a starter motor. Motor Cycle Touring offers some handy tips on how to do it from an experienced enthusiast.  A run on a Peerless is an early example of a roadtest. Also added today, more pics for the 1903 feature Wake Up Ladies! Including snaps of a Norton lady’s model and scary Mary Kennard. All the 1903 features are now ‘live’.

ONE DAY IN 1903 George Wyman mounted his 1¼hp California in San Francisco and headed east. Fifty days later he arrived in New York. Read all about it in the 1903 features section.

Two more features from 1903; useful tips on preparing your motor bicycle for an outing, and volunteer riders helping out with military manoeuvres.