The Chinese are now seriously making an advance in motorcycle country. They mainly do this by using Japanese and German engine blocks from BMW and the like. Blocks that the top European and Japanese factories very cleverly already left in China…
Motorcycles have never been as good as they are today. And where in 1969 the 67 hp of Honda's CB 750 Four were really too much for the secondary chains and rear tires of the time, now you can just buy a 100%…
In the roaring 1960s, when motorcycles were becoming more powerful but frames couldn't always keep up, Bimota arrived on the scene. While the big Japanese brands focused on high-performance engines, Bimota saw an opportunity to change the game. It…
If you buy a new, really new motorcycle now, you would be better off throwing it away in five years. But at ten years such a newcomer is probably well past its expiry date. If you buy a used motorcycle…
In the April edition of Auto Motor Klassiek writes editor Harry Linker about the Ariel Sloper SB by Rein Heerkens. It is a British motorcycle that made a short but powerful splash in the early 30s. Far from a cleaning product or…
Wheeler Dealers has been running since 2003 or so. Flipping Bangers from 2017. WD episodes are repeated in complete cannibalism. Flipping Bangers is a bit boyishly trashy for our taste. But it's all about maintaining...
And that's where things go wrong. However? Because what are we reading? When it comes to cars, we speak of a classic car if the car is 25 years or older. We can only call a motorcycle a vintage car if it is older than 30 years...
If you know how the hares run in motorcycle country, it is nice to be surprised after fifty years of motorcycling. So I may now almost be the proud owner of an IZH Planeta 5, a Russian single-cylinder…
For the winter I exchanged my MZ TS for an ex 'Polizia' Guzzi V65. Because I'm a bit of a Guzzi junkie. The almost burnous covered and packed V65 was in very neat condition and pristine white. I…
As a proud owner of an IZH Planeta 5, I am extremely happy with the workshop manual translated from Russian. Because under Technology for detecting the causes of faults in the ignition system I read: “Is the defect a…
