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• MAGAZINE NEEDS YOU…
  Have you just bought a new project? Or have you finished a project, taken part in an event or just been for a ride? Do you have pictures of you or your friends from your biking past? Or can you identify the riders or a face in the crowd from the Startline image on page four? Please write and tell us
• Fine form and function
  Bobbing about on a scooter has long been a way of demonstrating one’s taste and style to the world – and surely none could do it better than this 1956 Moto Rumi Formichino
• ‘If I had £10,000…’
  Harry Metcalfe is a YouTube sensation with four million followers of his bike, car and farming channel. Here’s how the 67-year-old spends our imaginary £10k…
• 12 bikes you can buy
  A soul-stirring selection – from an extraordinarily long-running Bantam to an exotic Japanese supersport 400. Gez Kane flags up some of the market highlights for spring
• Yamaha XT500
  Yamaha’s proto-adventure bike celebrates its 50th birthday this year. Serial XT restorer and owner Mark Smith explains what to look out for
• 12 bikes that sold
  Great value modern classics, quirky scooters, factory racers and stunning one-off specials – Gez Kane highlights some remarkable buys from the last few weeks
• Kawasaki GPZ305
  Lower-capacity Japanese bikes and models from the ’80s are in demand. The GPZ ticks both boxes – yet is still an utter steal. Time to bag a bargain twin…
• Jeff Smith, RIP
  The two-time world motocross champion who dominated the sport in the ’60s has died
• Pip Higham passes
  Remembering the famous drag racer and bike builder
• Hartland Quay hillclimb
  This tight, jaw-dropping coastal ascent attracts a diverse bunch of riders and cunningly constructed machines. Mark Graham competed in this season-opener and met this lot
• Rescued, revived & ridden
  The classic bikes that you have found, restored or just taken for a ride
• Masterpiece
  Jim Hodges built this BSA Gold Star-powered Rickman Métisse using all of his considerable skill and experience. The result is the definition of special
• Mark Williams
  The legendary journalist explains how a love of motorcycles, music and parties led to him founding Bike magazine, working all over the world and spending four years in prison…
• Super sharp
  Few bikes brought the race track experience to the road as intensely as the Suzuki RGV250. Nearly four decades on, that’s still the case
• Flat-out day at the seaside
  First run in 1929, the North West 200 is one of the greatest – and fastest – road races in the world, attracting top riders to the Northern Ireland coast. Here’s a few pictures we found in our archive, but you need to see it for yourself really…
• Laverda Jota
  The big Italian triple was the hard man of the ’70s. Fifty years after it arrived, does the icon still have the power to intimidate in our modern world?
• Rocking up to rumble
  The British racing establishment was rocked in the late 1960s by American racer Lance Weil and his Harley-Davidson – a winning mix of style and substance
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• ‘I love building different things’
  Tom Simpson specialises in turning dilapidated classics into useable – and handsome – customs. We poke around his Foundry Motorcycle HQ
• My favourite bikes
  Tom Simpson’s two-wheeled highlights
• Useful things
  Just some of the essential items in Tom Simpson’s workshop
• Final drive chains What you need to know
  Transferring drive to your rear wheel with a chain is both simple and complicated. Here’s the lowdown on all those rollers, pins, seals, rivets, and the numbers stamped on the side
• Goldie wonder
  Rick’s taken on this Gold Star scrambler as a rebuild project. It had only narrowly escaped the skip – but whether it could be revived wasn’t certain…
• Worth every penny
  Six hundred quid for a set of plugs would make anyone’s eyes water – but as Bruce finds, you can’t cut corners when dealing with exotic machinery like a rare Yamaha YZF-R7
• Brighter and safer
  Alex takes steps to improve the pathetically inadequate aftermarket lighting on his Yamaha RD200DX café racer in readiness for this spring’s boost in performance…
• Three go mild in Wales
  Three old buffoons on old trailies take on an enduro training camp in the middle of nowhere. What could possibly go wrong?
• ‘Just needs a kick or 20’
  Mike volunteers the use of his right leg to help resurrect a Honda XR250 that’s been languishing in a shed for 14 years – and then finds room to tuck it in his garage
• Lighting the way
  From acetylene gas to Light Emitting Diodes, there’s a variety of ways to illuminate the road ahead. Here’s a bit of background to help you see where you’re going
• Rear suspension sag
  Getting your motorcycle’s rear shock correctly set for you and how you ride is a simple way of reaping sizeable rewards – and measuring and setting up the sag is the cornerstone of nailing an effective chassis set up
• Me & my mate Norman
  Carefree caning of a field bike with youthful abandon set Roger on the road to a biking life