Features

1979 Kawasaki KX250 A5: There’s only a handful of Kawasakis regularly competing on the twinshock circuit. Current Bake and Bite 250 champ Richard Wood wonders why…

Honda’s CB750F was a desperate attempt to keep its ageing SOHC 750 in the ring with the new DOHC contenders from Kawasaki and Suzuki

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

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

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