Features

  • Mine’s a sidecar, my friend!

    Mine’s a sidecar, my friend!

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    Sidecarring was – and probably still is – a way of motorcycling life and one you’re either right in to or wouldn’t touch with a bent exhaust pipe. Mick Payne falls in the former category

  • BSA Sloper: it’s my bike

    BSA Sloper: it’s my bike

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    In 1962, before I was born, my father paid £4 for a complete but well used 1928 BSA Sloper. It spent the next nine or so years in boxes with the promise to restore it some day

  • Road Test: Vincent Rapide

    Road Test: Vincent Rapide

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    In the land of the big V-twin, Mick Duckworth discovers a British rival to the American icons – Vincent’s 1000cc Rapide

  • Road Test: BSA Gold Star Scrambler

    Road Test: BSA Gold Star Scrambler

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    Robin James restores classic motorcycles for a living. But after hours, he continues the development of the Gold Star scrambler he has owned for nearly 15 years

  • Yamaha DT250: on the trail

    Yamaha DT250: on the trail

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    In the editor’s home town it seemed, for a time in the early 80s at least, everyone had a trail bike of some sort for the winter

  • Kawasaki KX125 A4

    Kawasaki KX125 A4

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    Inspired by the editor’s Bultaco ‘Rebuilt to ride’ series, Martin Bateson set to with a rare Kawasaki and the same ideal

  • Suzuki’s RM series

    Suzuki’s RM series

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    By 1978, motocross was a war zone, with manufacturers at each other’s throats in the fight to cash in on the booming motocross market – particularly in the USA…

  • Stepping stone

    Stepping stone

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    By the early 70s, the superbike contest was hotting up, and very soon, the consumer would have a far bigger choice of more powerful and faster bikes than ever before.

  • Out of the woodsman

    Out of the woodsman

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    The Wychwood Brewery in Witney, Oxfordshire provided the setting for Royal Enfield’s Woodsman launch, Tim Britton went along…

  • Workshop: Yamaha XS250 parts 1-3

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    Three used engines in various states of distress, one workshop and a couple of spare weekends. Rod Gibson’s task was to make one good unit

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