When I think of the best bike I’ve ever ridden, a fair few do come to mind. Most of the Ducatis I’ve ridden have felt very special (916, 916 SPS, 888, 999 S, 1098 S, 1198) and the Honda V4s like the RC45 and NC45 (sadly not ridden an RC30…), and...
We want to see what’s in your shed and see what you looked like back in I have been collecting these machines over the years as ‘bikes I always wanted to own throughout the years’. All but the Fireblade are nut and bolt restored. The 1993 Yamaha...
Grand prix and British superbike multi-champ Niall Mackenzie on his GP! The story about my very own Yamaha XSR900 GP actually begins at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in 2023. Recently retired and good friend of 35 years, PR boss Jeff Turner...
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Bertie Simmonds reckons this bike rocks! We often use musical metaphors for motorcycles in CMM (well, Scoop does) so here’s one which has always puzzled me, if not kept me awake at night like some mad motorcycling earworm! Honda has always...
Steve Cooper rides these beauties. If you happen to be a fan of any of Yamaha’s rip-snorting strokers then you might want to give thanks to the pair of old warriors that occupy the next few pages. In fact, it’s probably fair to say that without...
Our own Ralph Ferrand gets on with lacing the wheels. Last month I finished building the top-end of my lairy custom big Zed. I did stick the motor into the frame for the dry build, but I have no photographs of that because it simply wasn’t safe...
Mark Haycock returns and paints by numbers! Irepainted the frame parts years ago for this rather interrupted and longrunning restoration, but I needed to think about the rest of the paintwork, which simply consists of the fuel tank and the...
