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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

Heresy: it’s a little less than heresy that the best all round learner of the early 1970s has pretty much fallen off the radar.

Aerodynamics help turn a flat twin into a tourer that can boldly go where no Scoop has been before: BMW’s R100 RS.

  In the Seventies, trials riders had pretty decent machinery to choose from to tackle their sport. Thanks to the efforts of Sammy Miller, Mick Andrews, Don Smith and Gordon Farley the Spanish industry was

The formula for any truly great sporting machine is an easy one to concoct, despite many trying and failing in the past.

What do you do when you want something so bad it hurts?