Category: Buying Guide

This was one of the last stories Rob Davies, a regular CBG contributor, wrote for us before illness took him. Right to the end, he was trying to convince himself of bikes he didn’t think

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Enter stage left Suzuki’s GS400 four-stroke parallel twin; the epitome of cost conscious classic Japanese motorcycling. This is a machine that will deliver you from A to B with the minimum of fuss and drama

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Expansion chambers and disc valves rapidly transformed firstly his Suzuki sponsor’s race machinery, which aided the defection, but not long after the road-going products of Bridgestone Kawasaki and Yamaha benefited as well. Everyone will undoubtedly

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Arriving 12 months after the CD the twin carbed 12v machine also featured something of a Honda trademark, an electric start. With sufficient va va voom to embarrass a 350 Triumph owner, the little CB

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Velocette Thruxton Naming a machine after a race or event is a fairly common theme in motorcycle circles – think Bonneville, Manx, Monza, Oulton, Silverstone. In which case perhaps the super sporting Venom-based single from

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Early 750s are sought after. But there is an alterfnative Original sand-cast examples are out of reach for most of us and the K0/K1 analogues have worryingly moved too far north of most folks wallets

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Norton ES400 Electro – a bike you must ride It is unbelievable how long it took to get the whole industry up to speed with such an idea as electric start. Even those manufacturers that

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Don’t dismiss the humble step-through The sale of modern scooters, twist and go’s etc. proves there’s still a confirmed market for them and with the price of petrol these days thinking small might just be

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Yamaha GL750 The bike is as much concept machine as it is prototype but if the reality is anything like the bike on display this is going to be something very special indeed. Four cylinders,

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