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Until 1981 many looked down on 125s with scorn; with a change in the law eighth of a litre bikes were the new teenage icons of desire.

If there’s anything better than a big powerful bike, it’s a small powerful bike.

Scoop rides a bike he almost bought and comes away smiling: Suzuki’s GT250 Ram Air…

Scoop rides the very British take on Honda’s XBR500.

“Always the bridesmaid, never the bride”; If you’re into 1970s classics then that phrase may strike a chord with you when run alongside Suzuki’s GT550. For reasons that are as biased as they are inaccurate,

Some nations seem to exude certain qualities almost as a national stereotype…

In the motorcycle world there are any number of reasons to create a special with components from various sources. These reasons range from ‘couldn’t afford a catalogued machine’ to ‘the standard offerings weren’t right’ and

The Seventies: the world was changing, MX had come along and only the die-hards called it scrambling and bemoaned the fact this foreign takeover of our sport would be the end of civilisation. This attitude

Heresy: it’s a little less than heresy that the best all round learner of the early 1970s has pretty much fallen off the radar.

Aerodynamics help turn a flat twin into a tourer that can boldly go where no Scoop has been before: BMW’s R100 RS.