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It may have given away 50cc to its bigger brother but Yamaha’s RD200 could give it a good run for its money. Neil Murray reckons the early drum braked model is the one to go for

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

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

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

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…

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.