Buying Guide

The CB900 has always played second fiddle to its CBX1000 big brother. But this was Honda’s production racer for the biking masses and has got to be the biggest bargain on the classic market…

To most classic enthusiasts the hallowed name of BMW is associated with bikes having two cylinders sticking out sideways. Rod Ker offers a different point of view…

Kawasaki took stock of the superbike market in the late seventies and invested heavily in R&D. In doing so it rewrote the rule book with the launch of the first GPZ900R, and created a new bloodline of cutting-edge sports bikes that inspired a generation…

One of the world’s rarest classic racers goes under the hammer this summer. Could this be a million dollar motorcycle?

Loved by many, and derided by others as the ‘plastic maggot’, Honda’s CX500 was pretty radical stuff. Still is. Steve Cooper explains why…

The Japanese are experts at miniaturisation. Suzuki’s TC90J is a perfect example of the oriental art of small but perfectly formed. CMM takes a spin on the diminutive TC90J, owned by Chris Brealey…

When Peter Barker heard of a rare 350 triple Motobecane rumoured to have been imported in a batch of bikes to Western Australia, he decided to embark on a mission to find it…

Not all show-stoppers are polished concours champs. Richard Morris took the top prize at last year’s 2006 Popham Megameet with his workaday Brough Superior sidevalve V-Twin…

These are the bikes with the unfinished business. The machines we bought as cocksure young things. Kings of the road, winners of the 1991 Whitby TT. Back then we were fast and reckless and we needed the bike to match. Back then we could almost get our knees down – some of us even wore…

Time was when production racing meant taking a road bike and building a racer from it. But in the late 1970s that changed. Some of the straight-out-of-a-crate bikes were so good to start with, they were competitive on track with minimal additional work…