It seems plenty of people are looking at Royal Enfield’s range for retro giggles if June’s motorcycle registrations are anything to go by…

This beautiful 650cc Bonneville from what was arguably the pre-unit T120’s top year, does not disappoint.

Few modern motorcycles have attracted as much attention in the classic world as the Royal Enfield 650 twins. Husband and

“No self-respecting mechanic would attempt such guerrilla tactics, and rightly so, but these Jap singles rock!”

Check out Paul Farrell’s Suzuki DR650!

Check out Steve’s Kawasaki Z650!

Check out Lasse Sandstrom’s 1975 Yamaha XS650B! 

Check out CMM reader Paulus Reynolds’ 1990 Honda NX650L Dominator! 

Q: With a cold engine it doesn’t respond to quick throttle openings. There is a bit of a difference once the engine is warm-though from about 55mph upwards, when the throttle is open to accelerate,

Q: Hello, I’d appreciate your opinion on the need for coil replacement on my Z650 F1. I’ve recently fitted a Z750E1 engine into my Z650 frame, The bike is running fine but I’m wondering if

Q: I have installed a racing exhaust on my W650, which is pretty much a set of empty pipes/silencers, but did not re-jet (I wasn’t interested in the supposedly four extra bhp it was said

Another new-old bike hits the street, using a familiar Rotax engine in a classic-shaped chassis. Rowena Hoseason tells us all about it...

Jonny Wellard wants to know if his Kawasaki W650 is groovy and fab, or just grubby and sad. People ask him; 'what's the point of having one of those when you could buy the real thing?' And he has an answer for them!

"I thought that restoring something old may be what I needed" said Kim Henry, before starting the rebuild of his Real Classic Kawasaki...

With the parts back from the chromers, Kim Henry starts rebuilding his Real Classic Kawasaki. But will it start?

Who can catch a Kawasaki? Message board regular Kevin sets the bait for a Z900 but reels in a pristine KZ650B2...

John Blades always dreamed of owning a Norton Featherbed twin. And now he does: the last of the Dominator line...

Four-pot Japanese classics are over-complicated, tricky to maintain and expensive to run, right? Not quite. Steve Bergman has clocked up over 120,000 miles on the cut-rate Katana and reckons it has real classic cred...

It's not really a Bonneville, but Neil Owen's individually-tailored twin-carb 650 twin might, just might, be better than a Bonneville...

If you're talking about modern classically-styled twins, then which is actually better? Brady Davis rides both regularly, and so take us down some parallel lines...

The Triumph Bonneville is probably the world's most famous classic bike. RC writer Matt has produced a splendid book on the subject...

John (Midnight Mouse) Downie rides a 650 twin which has never let him down, and he normally rides it on a continent where rain is almost unheard of. So...

This lovely 673cc Honda Eurosport was entered by Robert Francis. The machine itself has an interesting past history; it had been abandoned in a spacious yard in South Wales, with nothing to indicate how it had gotten there or why. It was consequently rescued and restored.

Benelli’s 650 twin was a radical take on the British parallel twin design. But the Italian BSA beater arrived as the British industry went into decline, and it soon began to look dated against Japanese exotica. Rod Gibson tells the story...

This bike may have looked like a 1999 Kawasaki W650 when Sean Kynnersley bought it but after just five weeks on the bench he’d transformed it into this stunning hand built, road-going flat tracker...

Low sales volume still didn’t stop Kawasaki from selling its own version of the archetypal British bike. Anyone who knocked about on old British iron might reasonably suggest Kawasaki’s original W-series twins were little more than BSA A7/A10s rip-offs...

Our 1979 Yamaha XS650 had struggled on the daily commute, then got packed away and forgotten in a damp cellar for almost five years, so it wasn’t a pretty sight. You join the overhaul with the engine already removed from the frame and stripped...

Kawasaki's Z650 set the standard for four-cylinder middleweights, but the company did it the hard way. Confirmed Suzuki GS750 fan Rod Ker concedes the Z was the bike to beat in the performance wars

By the early 60s, Norton was beginning to make engines which were capable of exploiting the performance of its world-renowned frames, and the 650cc Dominator was one such bike...

Rod Gibson rolls up his sleeves and completes the Yamaha's engine and gearbox rebuild but it’s not going back in the frame just yet – the owner is so pleased with the motor that he’s now going for a full restoration...

When 'Father of the Z1' Ben Inamura designed the Z650 in 1976 he could never have realised that derivatives would still be in production 30 years later. John Nutting tested a number of the original versions at MIRA...

There are a lot of books about Triumph twins, in case you’d not noticed, but Matthew Vale’s mighty work is a little different from the norm...

The biggest machine in the extensive Small Heath range shows its paces to Motor Cycling