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Suzuki GT750 engine’s back… Rod's now getting within touching distance of finishing our overhaul. Still a lot to be done, but the engin'es now in place… Step-by-step images and captions can be viewed in the image gallery. View Suzuki GT750: part one View Suzuki GT750: part two View Suzuki GT750: part four Captions Picture one:…

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Kawasaki Z650 When Ben Inamura and his team gave the world the Z1 it was a spectacular delivery. If you remember that period of the 70s, the very sight of a Z1 was like a punch between the eyes by George Foreman. The world of biking had changed overnight. Well it did if you were…

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Suzuki GSX-R750RR Honda’s CB900F was a bike built as the basis for an AMA super bike racer. And the CB1100R that followed in 1981 was so special that its runaway race success was boring. But it was the RC30 that changed everything. Honda built one bike to race in F1, World Superbikes and endurance. One street legal bike that could…

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Suzuki GT750 workshop rebuild Step-by-step images and captions are available in the image gallery. View Suzuki GT750: part one View Suzuki GT750: part three View Suzuki GT750: part four Picture one: First I'm going to finish mounting the forks, then I can get the wheels fitted. Like many Japanese bikes of the period, the GT750…

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Suzuki GT750 – finished at last Visit the image gallery for pics and step-by-step instructions. View Suzuki GT750 part one View Suzuki GT750: part two View Suzuki GT750: part three Picture one: After finishing off the engine build last month, next I needed to sort out all the wiring. Despite having a complete new loom,…

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Norton Classic and Suzuki RE5 On the face of it, rotary engines are an excellent idea for motorcycles. Relatively compact and light, it’s feasible that they could power small, agile, high performance bikes. And they could be competitive, too. Norton proved their potential with their John Player Special race bikes with astounding success at the…

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Honda Gold Wing GL1000 Back in 1976 Maurice Keen was serving in the Royal Navy based at Portsmouth. He had owned a string of Triumph twins, but was now looking for a bike that would provide the effortless long distance touring capability he needed, and his head was turned by the new 1000cc Honda Gold…

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Yamaha XT500 overhaul Sequential captions and images 1 to 12 are in part one. Picture 13: At the other side, the clutch lifter arm fits into the top of the crankcase and is located with an eccentric bolt and locknut (left) which serves as a clutch adjuster. With the clutch pushrod, lifter and plates all…

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Triumph Trident T150V engine overhaul The Triumph Trident was arguably the world’s first ever superbike. It’s difficult to imagine the impact this 750 triple had on the showrooms when it first appeared back in 1968 but up until then, if you wanted a bike you had a choice of one or two cylinders, and that…

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Triumph Trident T150V engine overhaul In part one I started work on Chris’s Triumph Trident engine which had come to me in a row of cardboard boxes after being stripped by a previous owner in the distant past. Though the major engine parts had already been reconditioned, assembling the pile of bits back into a…

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