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Suzuki GS850G crash damage
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Q: My bike was involved in a crash and came down on the right hand (timing cover) side. All the electronic ignition pick-ups have been replaced by a previous owner with parts from a GS1000. I
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Five Minute Fix – remove paint from threads
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Words/Pictures by Steve Cooper We’ve all been there; the painter or powdercoater forget to mask a thread. Taps and dies are good on smaller threads but what about larger ones? What if you’ve already fitted
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1984 Kawasaki ZX750 GPz A12 torque settings
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Q: Hello! My son is living in the USA and he is in the middle of fixing up his 1984 ZX750 GPz A12 American spec. He wants to know the torque setting for the bolts holding
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Kawasaki W650 Special racing exhaust
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Q: I have installed a racing exhaust on my W650, which is pretty much a set of empty pipes/silencers, but did not re-jet (I wasn’t interested in the supposedly four extra bhp it was said
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Your Tips – TY250 yellowing tank
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In an earlier edition of Q&A Lee was asking how to restore the yellowing plastic of the petrol tank on his TY250. I had a similar issue with the expansion tank on my CX500 restoration.
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Five Minute Fix – fragile fixings
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Words/Pictures by Steve Cooper Once in a while there’s a need to tight a nut or bolt on something that’s small, fragile or mounted on a surface that’s easily damaged. If you’re not careful the
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Book Review: Giacomo Agostini – A Life in Pictures
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Book reviewed by Jonathan Hill Giacomo Agostini is, still, Italy’s most successful and most glamorous motorcycle road racer and, some would argue, the greatest riders of all time. They would have good reason too, when you
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Good vibrations
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STROLLING THROUGH the magazine section at ASDA, I was stopped in my tracks. I must have stepped through a black hole because I was suddenly 17 years old again. That’s some feat for a magazine.
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Vincent Motorcycles: The Untold Story since 1946
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GIVEN THE VINCENT’S reputation as one of the most remarkable motorcycles ever manufactured, any book which attempts to cover the subject needs to be similarly accomplished. This massive hardback, which runs to 400 fact-packed, full-colour
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Vic Eastwood
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