Automotive
Classic Motorcycle Mechanics
The ‘C' word!
With the boss about to go have fun on one of Nick Crocker’s bikes (ex-Steve Hislop YZF750) at Sywell.
4 min |
June 2020
Classic Motorcycle Mechanics
Pressing Times!
Our Allen gets himself pressed into action to sort out his crankshaft.
5 min |
June 2020
Classic Motorcycle Mechanics
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!
7 min |
June 2020
Classic Motorcycle Mechanics
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!
3 min |
June 2020
Classic Motorcycle Mechanics
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!
3 min |
May 2020
Classic Motorcycle Mechanics
Yamaha YDS1 part 4 Nervous breakdown!
The Yamaha YDS1’s stripped back to the bare bones, but a nervy Scoop wonders what lies within!
2 min |
May 2020
Classic Motorcycle Mechanics
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!
6 min |
May 2020
Classic Motorcycle Mechanics
Sawing and welding
Allen is doing yet more sawing and welding on the motor of his Kawasaki ‘Super-Six’!
5 min |
May 2020
Classic Motorcycle Mechanics
Conkers, lovely conkers!
Tuner, engineer, rider
4 min |
May 2020
Classic Motorcycle Mechanics
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?
5 min |
May 2020
Classic Motorcycle Mechanics
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!
9 min |
May 2020
Classic Motorcycle Mechanics
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!
6 min |
May 2020
Classic Motorcycle Mechanics
Crimp my style!
Ralph Ferrand works with tools all day long – he sells them too at bikerstoolbox.co.uk. So he knows what works.
3 min |
May 2020
Classic Motorcycle Mechanics
A Shaw thing!
CMM reader Malcolm Shaw is a self-taught spanner-man with a penchant for making specials…
6 min |
May 2020
Classic Motorcycle Mechanics
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?
5 min |
February 2020
Classic Motorcycle Mechanics
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…
5 min |
February 2020
Classic Motorcycle Mechanics
PARTS BIN PERFECT!
Andy Bolas rides a Yamaha RZ250R, which he finds shares many parts from other tiddler Yamaha models.
7 min |
February 2020
Classic Motorcycle Mechanics
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?
7 min |
February 2020
Classic Motorcycle Mechanics
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…
3 min |
February 2020
Classic Motorcycle Mechanics
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.
2 min |
February 2020
Classic Motorcycle Mechanics
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!
4 min |
February 2020
Classic Motorcycle Mechanics
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…
6 min |
April 2020
Classic Motorcycle Mechanics
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.
6 min |
April 2020
Classic Motorcycle Mechanics
Suzuki TS400 Apache part 4 Indian country!
Thanks to the internet Scoop is able to inspect his latest purchase remotely!
5 min |
April 2020
Classic Motorcycle Mechanics
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?
4 min |
April 2020
Classic Motorcycle Mechanics
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.
3 min |
April 2020
Classic Motorcycle Mechanics
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?
5 min |
March 2020
Classic Motorcycle Mechanics
Multimeters!
If you have an electrical fault on your bike the only realistic way to find it is with a multimeter.
3 min |
March 2020
Classic Motorcycle Mechanics
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!
7 min |
March 2020
Classic Motorcycle Mechanics
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!
4 min |