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Yamaha’s RD250 two stroke twin was the first production bike to use reed valves to help deliver some midrange without killing performance elsewhere. But they were viewed with suspicion…

Following the success of the GSX series and Katanas, Suzuki upped the ante with the first GSXRs. A thinly disguised street legal race bike, the GSXR750 was an instant success…

Reader Andy Jones had been after a Suzuki GT750 for ages to restore. Then, like buses, two came along at once…

Yamaha’s response to restrictive learner legislation was to launch the FS1-E, a high performing 50cc, which every 16-year-old aspired to…

Never a visual treat, but Yamaha’s FZ750 won friends with its 145mph top speed and amazing power spread…

Suzuki, like Kawasaki, adopted the two stroke triple engine in the seventies, but it offered a more rounded product than its performance rivals…

Launched on the back of the development of the RC30, Honda’s V-twin-powered Bros is a competent allrounder…

Honda’s CB1100F was the last of its classic air-cooled fours and although overshadowed by the exotic CB1100R production racer still pulls a hefty punch with a 140mph top speed…

This sprinter was built by three engineering apprentices in the early 1960s – and it’s continued to impress with its rapid pace in the decades since…