Updated just twice during its 16-year lifetime, we’re not sure we can wait for the next Hayabusa so we conjured up our own. 1998 was a great year for Superbikes not only did Yamaha gift

With a production run of 17 years, the much-loved ZZ-R600 was a fantastic middleweight sports tourer and remains a cheap buy today. We wonder what it would look like for the iPad generation…   A

What if Yamaha gave the Fizzy a real kick up the retro pants and morphed it into a modern-day machine?

It arrived in 1980 in a background of gasps – the public didn’t quite know what to make of the fastest the Suzuki ever.

Bridgestone motorcycles established a reputation for solid engineering. The disc valve engines were well designed, simple to service and used the very best cutting edge materials including chromium plated bores in alloy cylinder castings...

There’s much can be said about Yorkshire folk, but one thing in their favour is their thrift. So it was with Phelon & Moore, motorcycle manufacturers of Cleckheaton. Why make a new engine when the old one is perfectly adequate? Phil Mather finds a Panther Model 100 which proves the point...