Features

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

Think of six cylinders and you think Honda CBX – but Benelli got there first with its 750. Later came the 900 version but Neil Murray reckons the first was the real classic

The smaller cousins of BMW’s big flat twins, the 450 and 650 differed from the rest of the range in many ways. Forget the slow 450, says Neil Murray and look for a Brembo-braked R65

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

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