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Our goal in this paper is the development of fast algorithms for recognizing general classes of graphs. We seek algorithms whose complexity can be expressed as a linear function of the graph size plus an exponential function of k, a natural parameter describing the class. In particular, we consider the class Wk(G), where for each graph G in Wk(G), the removal of a set of at most k vertices from G results in a graph in the base graph class G. (If G is the class of edgeless graphs, Wk(G) is the class of graphs with bounded vertex cover.)When G is a minor-closed class such that each graph in G has bounded maximum degree, and all obstructions of G (minor-minimal graphs outside G) are connected, we obtain an O((g + k)|V(G)| + (fk)k) recognition algorithm for Wk(G), where g and f are constants (modest and quantified) depending on the class G. If G is the class of graphs with maximum degree bounded by D (not closed under minors), we can still obtain a running time of O(|V(G)|(D + k) + k(D + k)k+3) for recognition of graphs in Wk(G).Our results are obtained by considering bounded-degree minor-closed classes for which all obstructions are connected graphs, and showing that the size of any obstruction for Wk(G) is O(tk7 + t7k2), where t is a bound on the size of obstructions for G. A trivial corollary of this result is an upper bound of (k + 1)(k + 2) on the number of vertices in any obstruction of the class of graphs with vertex cover of size at most k. These results are of independent graph-theoretic interest.