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It may have been nearly 200bhp and needed extra weight adding to get up to the 130kg minimum, but the Elf 500 was born of sidecar tech. Kind of. The heart of any motorcycle is

If there’s a better-looking motorcycle out there

Until 1981 many looked down on 125s with scorn; with a change in the law eighth of a litre bikes were the new teenage icons of desire.

If there’s anything better than a big powerful bike, it’s a small powerful bike.

Scoop rides a bike he almost bought and comes away smiling: Suzuki’s GT250 Ram Air…

Scoop rides the very British take on Honda’s XBR500.

“Always the bridesmaid, never the bride”; If you’re into 1970s classics then that phrase may strike a chord with you when run alongside Suzuki’s GT550. For reasons that are as biased as they are inaccurate,

Some nations seem to exude certain qualities almost as a national stereotype…

In the motorcycle world there are any number of reasons to create a special with components from various sources. These reasons range from ‘couldn’t afford a catalogued machine’ to ‘the standard offerings weren’t right’ and

The Seventies: the world was changing, MX had come along and only the die-hards called it scrambling and bemoaned the fact this foreign takeover of our sport would be the end of civilisation. This attitude