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The motor’s rebuilt and all the parts are refinished. All that remains before the final assembly is to patch up the exhaust. Rod Gibson breaks out the welder

Poor old Suzuki. It’s not often that a bike that is technically advanced and a good performer gets sidelined very quickly, especially after it’s had a very positive reception from the press. However, it happened to the Suzuki GSX550…

Suzuki was influential in moulding the tralbike concept and this TS125, launched in 1971 and following on from the Trail Cat, continued the theme

The R90/S was ground breaking when launched. Better equipped than the Japanese equivalents – albeit more expensive – and fast and exciting to ride

This Brough Superior may look like any other 1926 SS100, but its vee twin engine outpaced Sir Henry Segrave’s two-litre supercharged Sunbeam racing car. Peter Watson tells the tale…

Every once in a while the Japanese produce a motorcycle that takes your eyeballs, stretches them, and then pops them back in their sockets. The sensational styling of the Suzuki Katana made it a motorcyling classic even when it was still on sale…

A Meriden Mini-Bonnie! True enough, brand-new from Triumph for 1967 comes a searing 500 sportster in five-hundred form, with twin carburettors, codenamed T100T

With its range for 1932, Triumph fought shy of radical innovation. But they did list 350 and 500cc competition models for the first time, and by doing so started a trend which all other manufactuers have followed ever since. Alan Berry owns a rare survivor of the 500cc CD version…

Rare in the extreme, so rare that few have seen a Silk let alone ridden one, but a design bristling with incredible ideas as befits the inspiration for the project – the Scott