Buying Guide

Various manufacturers have tried and revisited the V-twin formula (in fact some have never ventured from the sacred V) and Honda made a pretty neat job with the Bros back in 1988. Launched on the back of the development of the RC30, Honda’s V-twin-powered Bros is a competent allrounder…

Never a visual treat, but Yamaha’s FZ750 won friends with its 145mph top speed and amazing power spread

Yamaha’s response to restrictive learner legislation was to launch the FS1-E, a high performing 50cc, which every 16-year-old aspired to…

Kawasaki’s blisteringly fast two stroke 750 triple lit the tarmac when launched in 1972. Punching above its weight, it was the ultimate white knuckle ride and remains an unforgettable ride today…

Suzuki’s rotary-engined RE5 was a high tech but heavy and thirsty alternative to conventional piston-engined superbikes. Not surprisingly, it didn’t catch on…

Forty-two years after it rolled off the production line, owner Tony Clements reckons that it’s possible to keep an 650 Thunderbolt in better-than-new condition, and he’s got the prizes to prove it…

Mark Mumford owns one of the very first true British superbikes. And RealClassics gave it an award…

Pre 65 trials bikes these days bear little or no relation to the way such sporting bikes actually were pre 1965, Classic Dirtbike has a look at a bike ‘as ridden’ in the day…

This month we look at one of the classic scene’s seminal air-cooled strokers: they don’t get much better than the Yamaha RD400…

Honda’s twin was the learner-legal start for many who couldn’t bring themselves to buy a two-stroke. Here’s how to tell which is which…