The ‘C' word!

With the boss about to go have fun on one of Nick Crocker’s bikes (ex-Steve Hislop YZF750) at Sywell.

Pressing Times!

Our Allen gets himself pressed into action to sort out his crankshaft.

Crash course!

With pre-testing and the opening CB500 round under their belts it was time for some schooling for our Fast Berks, a lesson via the school of hard knocks!

Being bore-ing…

A tool that few people I know own is a borescope. The medical boys have used them for years and yes, I’ve suffered ‘that’ indignity before you ask!

Project Yamaha TZR250 3MA part 2 Four-Into-One!

Jeff has the lucky job of turning four 3MA motors into one screaming two-stroke… he’s quite excited!

Yamaha YDS1 part 4 Nervous breakdown!

The Yamaha YDS1’s stripped back to the bare bones, but a nervy Scoop wonders what lies within!

Project BMW R1100 RS part 1 Don't start!

Or is it part four? Well, part four of our Kev’s missives and it’s the end of a very long road for his high-mileage BMW!

Sawing and welding

Allen is doing yet more sawing and welding on the motor of his Kawasaki ‘Super-Six’!

Conkers, lovely conkers!

Tuner, engineer, rider

Cog-swapping! Kawasaki H2C part 5

Seems like our Ralph is back with the terror that is the purple pain! What now, Un-Wreck It Ralph?

Project CRK Café Racer Triumph 1200 part 8 Crossed wires

Just when he thought that it would be plain sailing with the CRK 1200 Roadster project, Nutters hit the rocks!

BMW R1100S part 6 The comic strip!

Part six of the 160,000-mile Boxer and Ralph shouts from the workshop: “Will my German stripping ever end?” But in a Somerset-y, not Saxony accent!

Crimp my style!

Ralph Ferrand works with tools all day long – he sells them too at bikerstoolbox.co.uk. So he knows what works.

A Shaw thing!

CMM reader Malcolm Shaw is a self-taught spanner-man with a penchant for making specials…

Hybrid heaven!: Project Kawasaki Hybrid part 8

Or is it hybrid hell? Our own Scoop returns with tales of this 500/400/250 mish-mash! Will he survive such mental anguish?

YZR-esurrected!: Project Yamaha YZR500 part 1

What do you do if you’re offered a former factory YZR500 that you once raced? You procrastinate for several months and count your pennies…

PARTS BIN PERFECT!

Andy Bolas rides a Yamaha RZ250R, which he finds shares many parts from other tiddler Yamaha models.

Gold digger!: Project Yamaha YZF-R1 5VY part 3

Our own Paul Berryman seems to be panning for gold… but what are the nuggets in the 2004 R1 sump pan?

Bath time!: Project Yamaha RZV500R part 5

There’s nothing like a refreshing bath after a hot Australian Summer’s day, even if it is in diesel and kerosene…

Basket case!

We’re inside the back of a clutch basket and there are no listed spares. Welcome to part one of sorting a clutch’s shock absorber.

Apache hunter!: Project Suzuki TS400 part 2

All you never wanted to know about Suzuki TS400 and more! And knowing Scoop, probably some you didn’t… hee hee!

Yamaha YZF-R1 5VY part 4 How 8 goes into 1!

Poor PB is rueing his choice of track-day steed – but with some patience and research he may just have tracked down some rare parts…

Two-stroke Know How part 1 Two-stroke guru!

We get to meet a two-stroke fan and engineer who rides the bikes he modifies.

Suzuki TS400 Apache part 4 Indian country!

Thanks to the internet Scoop is able to inspect his latest purchase remotely!

Project Triumph Daytona 1200 part 2 Key decisions!

Oh dear! A simple sort out of the mighty 1200cc Daytona has left our Andy B with a big list of things to find and sort! And where are the keys?

Cutting the wire!

When repairing electrical faults or fully rewiring a bike the first thing you will want is a method of cutting the wire and removing the insulation.

Project Yamaha YZR500 part 2- Master Blaster!

With 160bhp going through it, the YZR clutch needs to be up to the job. Niall’s wasn’t! What else did he find lurking under the fairing?

Multimeters!

If you have an electrical fault on your bike the only realistic way to find it is with a multimeter.

Max Zed Vroom!

The proof of the pudding is in the eating, right? That’s why we ride a very trick one-owner 1976 Z900 A4 from BuzzWorkz!

Project Suzuki TS400 Apache part 3- Scoop scalped!

The silly old fool has apparently found the bike of his dreams... in America! He’s about to be financially scalped by an Apache!