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Mountain tension!
Award-winning motorcycle engineer!
Fazer set to STUN!
What do you get when you mix CRK’s lovely café racer kit to Yamaha’s budget middleweight and the recently-retired Martin Fox? Well, one helluva foxy Fazer!
Project Yamaha TX750 Part 12 A question of balance…
Only The Beach Boys had good vibrations… so what’s Mark been up to, to sort out the bad ones coming from his TX750?
Splitting links
Ralph Ferrand works with tools all day long – he sells them too at bikerstoolbox.co.uk so he knows what works.
STAVROS: PRINCE OF PRANKSTERS!
It’s probably fair to say that Stephen JamesParrish’s persona and overall levity throughout his life have muddied the waters as to just how good a bike racer he was back in the day.
Project Suzuki TR750 part 13 Lucky for some!
Has it really been more than 12 issues (and much longer than a year) since we first saw Malc? He’s still on with his Suzuki triple special!
Starting and fettling!
I had been looking forward to fitting there chromed header pipes to my red Z1Super Six so I was really excited when the postman called with a large package from ACF Howell.
Suzuki TL1000R
Why are prices of the fat and frumpy TL1000R rising? Could we see a revival of a Suzuki sports V-twin?
Some sorta Sanctuary!
Inspired by the great specials builds from AC Sanctuary, Bob Haughton and friends set about making their own Zed homage!
Peter Williams: Innovator, racer, gentleman…
Peter Williams, who sadly passed away in December, was more than just a talented motorcycle racer, he was also an innovator whose influences can be seen on modern machines to this day.
DETREVNI SNOBBERY!
The GSX-R1100K was a bit of a handful and Suzuki’s successor the 1100L was supposed to turn all that on its head: literally, as it was the first Suzuki model with the soon-to-be-fashionable inverted or ‘upside-down’ front forks…
Cat - isfaction!
Our Scoop rides the Suzuki TC120 ‘Trail Cat’ and comes away wondering why we Brits didn’t build something similar.
Tea-time stories!
Pip Higham Tuner, engineer, rider
Sassy with the chassis!
In this very issue you can read about our ride of Allen’s Super Six Zed! Here, he’s getting on with bike number two!
The desired Ducati…
Is it really 30 years since the first Ducati 888? A machine which (formany Ducati aficionados) is better than even the sublime and beautiful 916?
T-REX!
Aussie CMM reader Derek Henderson had adream: an ELR replica, but it was not to be.Instead he picked up a 2001 ZRX1200R, puta turbo on it and made it a T-REX! Bliss!
Six therapy!
Allen Millyard’s latest project extends his engine reconstruction skills further by building a six-cylinder version of Kawasaki’s iconic Z1. John Nutting finds out what it’s like to ride
Project Yamaha TX750 part 7: Electric Avenue!
Our Mark sorts out any electrical gremlins with the TX and finds that the system was fairly advanced for the time.
TRIUMPHANT RETURN!
On the 30th anniversary of the launch of the first Hinckley Triumphs, we look at how John Bloor single-handedly revived the British motorcycle industry.
Super Six Mk.2!
Only Allen would have spares left over and say “Let’s build another six-cylinder Zed!”
Banana Republic
As a head-scratching bike from the time, the years have been kind to Triumph’s thought-provoking Daytona 1200.
Balls to this!
In olden days, like bicycles, motorcycle headstock bearings used a system known as cone and cup bearings with hardened steel ball bearings running in between races known as cups for the outer and cones for the inner.
Kawasaki Z550F part 5: Back-end blues!
During lock down, our John had to tackle a few back-end issues with his on-the-cheap Z550F restoration…
Winds of change!
Kent-based CMM reader Stuart Gilbert loved a Z1, but couldn’t afford it, nor a Zephyr back in the 1990s – but then he could, and boy would his be a breath of fresh air!
Stirk ‘razy!
Oh I’ve really missed my springtime outing to Stafford, bit of a pilgrimage really. I’ve done both shows now for more years than I care (or dare) to remember.
RIDE BETTER!
Welcome to part one of our three-part series on how to ride your modern classic better! Messrs Niall Mackenzie and Neil Hodgson give us some tips on survival out on the road and on track. Part one: preparation, the basics and urban riding…
Project Yamaha TY80 part 1: Tall tales!
Just like buses you find that two Mackenzies turn up in one issue! Here’s Junior on why he just had to choose a TY80 as his first restoration.
HONDA CB1000 Project Big 1
Check out this rare Honda ‘Four’ that will be hard to find today, but is worthwhile if you can!
STAFFORD... AT THE DOUBLE!
It’s our October issue, so we need to remind you all that April’s postponed Carole Nash International Classic Motor Cycle Show will now be rolled into our own show in October... which is still GO for SHOW!
Turbo Time!
Our Allen helps out a mate with his Z1-R Turbo. If only we all had a Millyard as a mate, eh...