Features

Yamaha’s YR5 350 ws not as fearsome as we had anticipated but it’s still a good all-round performer

We come to terms with Kawasaki’s latest rip-snorting triple-pot machine from Japan

Bob Currie tells of Plumstead’s final project, the 800cc double-ohc Norton

As the old year ended and the new one began, the journalists of yesteryear – on the Blue Un and Green Un – would round off their riding year with a rundown on what they’d ridden…

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

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

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

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

Think of six cylinders and you think Honda CBX – but Benelli got there first with its 750. Later came the 900 version but Neil Murray reckons the first was the real classic

The smaller cousins of BMW’s big flat twins, the 450 and 650 differed from the rest of the range in many ways. Forget the slow 450, says Neil Murray and look for a Brembo-braked R65