Buying Guide

If Yamaha still made the RD500LC, it might just look like this.

During the acronym-laden early Eighties each of the big four entered into the turbo race, viewed by many as a thinly-veiled willy-waving competition.

Before the all-conquering 1983 RD350YPVS there was this the liquid-cooled version of Yamaha’s popular RD400.

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

If Suzuki built a big-bore two-stroke, it might just look like this. Welcome to our recreation of the awesome RG500 square four and the RGV250 V-twin… 1985 was the year Suzuki’s RG500 long-awaited answer to

If a new V-twin sportsbike appeared via Japan, we can only hope it’ll come from Suzuki, as they created a monster back in the 1990s.

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.

Easy on the wallet but punching well above its weight, that’ll be Yamaha’s 180 twin, says Steve ‘Scoop’ Cooper…