Buying Guide

Velocette’s sporting single was the last bastion of the traditional thoroughbred single cylinder sports bike. Tim Britton takes a look at the Velo range, then hops aboard a Thruxton for a test…

Suzuki, like Kawasaki, adopted the two stroke triple engine in the seventies, but it offered a more rounded product than its performance rivals…

Mention Honda CB750 at club night and everyone raises eyebrows, whistles and starts thinking five figure sums. The machine that started it all is quite rightly iconic but it’s also expensive…

Ignore the Moto Morini V-twins at you peril. Great, surefooted handling, soulful engines and they look a million dollars, even when parked up…

Following the success of the GSX series and Katanas, Suzuki upped the ante with the first GSXRs. A thinly disguised street legal race bike, the GSXR750 was an instant success…

Mick Walker is to blame, apparently. Before browsing through one of Mick’s Moto Guzzi books, RealClassic reader Roger Slater had been perfectly happy owning and riding bigger V-twins like an 850 Le Mans, a 650TT trail bike and a 500cc Monza. Then Roger was led astray by the printed page…

In a world of ever increasing technology, there is still much to be said for mechanical simplicity, if only for ease of maintenance. Andrew Wilson reckons that’s why he found this BSA B31 so endearing…

Everyone has had a Yamha DT175, ridden one, borrowed one and/or abused one. Given a diet of petrol, half decent two-stroke oil, the odd plug and sundry consumables these machines have rewarded their owners with dogged reliability and unstinting service…

Kawasaki’s Z650 set the standard for four-cylinder middleweights, but the company did it the hard way. Confirmed Suzuki GS750 fan Rod Ker concedes the Z was the bike to beat in the performance wars

The history of British motorcycling is littered with what-might-have-beens. Jim Reynolds gets to grips – briefly – with one