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Legendary tuner Paul Dunstall took onboard rider criticisms of the new fangled disc braking systems and released his own accessories which improved braking and appearance…

Never a major manufacturer in the way of Triumph or BSA, Velocette nevertheless produced some iconic motorcycles generally based around a single-cylinder four-stroke engine…

Alan Arnold wanted to build a Benelli 900SEI that looks like a modernised 750. So he did. And now it’s almost finished – time for a shakedown run…

Referred to in the September 2012 issue of Classic Bike Guide, the Boston Consulting Group’s 1975 report was a comprehensive report on how the Japanese achieved market dominance in less than 20 years. It showed the successes of Honda and Suzuki and the enormous failings of the British industries….

During the first thirty years of motorcycle production, America could well be said to have led the world in design, durability, sales and speed. This is the story of the American motorcycle classic – the Indian V-twin Powerplus…

Heart-warming tale as a chicken house-transporting BAT is lovingly restored to its former glory. Also unusual is how the owner finally got his hands on the machine. Roy Poynting explains…

A heavy clutch and signs of slipping? Pete Monks goes deep into his RD400 to restore a smooth and positive transmission

Yamaha’s original RD350LC was furious if not as fast as we’d expected. But the two-stroke twin had huge potential which has been explored with a huge range of modifications. John Nutting tested it at MIRA in the early 1980s…

There’s a mountain of difference between pioneering a cine camera and manufacturing the world’s most powerful engines, but that’s just what John Prestwich did and successfully too…

In the early Seventies the world of twins was simple; Ducati produced V-twins, BMWs were horizontally opposed and the British persevered with pushrod parallels… then Yamaha mixed it all up, with the OHC XS1…