New & Features

Product directs air up sleeve Well, Ventz helps stop that. We’ve all been uncomfortable in the summer, thanks to the warm layer of air trapped betwixt jacket and rider. Ventz helps energise that air. It’s a clever little air-scoop that fits neatly into the arms of your jacket. When you’re under way, the scoop will…

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Latest CMM’s on the bookstalls! • Editor's intro Bertie sets the scene • Archive Move over Marquez. It’s ice, ice baby. Meet the kings of lean • Quick spin – Kawasaki GPz750 Is this Kwak crud or cool? • News Post Office are fuels! Columnists and cool things • Calendar January…sick and tired of you…

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The gorgeous finished article Daryll says: “I had an old Honda SL125 field bike when I was 13 or 14 and it was the coolest thing, so when a good mate of mine, Steve Booth, asked me to build him ‘something Steve McQueen would jump a barbed wire fence on’ I immediately thought of my…

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This yuletide a digital subscription makes the perfect gift to those who know their Spotify from their spanners and their iPads from their idle screws. So, if you’re lucky enough to be getting an iPad or some cheaper/better modern shiny tablet for Christmas this year, hint strongly to your partner that – if you’re to…

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It was a logical progression from the 1000RX, coming out two years later in 1988. It shows the curves that would be refined further in its own successor, 1990’s ZZ-R1100. All three bikes were billed as the fastest production bikes of their time and have a certain kudos, if not ‘classic’ status. It’s strange then…

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We caught up with the man himself David Higgs at the recent Stafford Show. He said: “We’ve always produced the more traditional style of upswept exhausts that we Brits tend to prefer, but a trip to Norway showed me that this style of exhaust is also popular. We’ve seen our American and Canadian cousins go…

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Latest CMM’s on the bookstalls! • Editor's intro Bertie sets the scene • Archive The amazing 1992 Isle of Man TT recalled • News Columnists, cool things and money off Fogtech! • Quick spin: Benelli 750 SEI Chris Moss on a sexy six • Calendar What’s on this December. Brrrr… • Feedback All your views…

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Paul runs Visorvision, a place where everything is angled to looking after your helmet and your visor and you can get a whopping 15% off Fogtech simply by being a reader of CMM. So, if you’re planning on wearing a visor, spectacles, safety goggles or a welding mask at any point this winter then listen…

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Held at the National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham, this year the show boasts no fewer than 29 manufacturers, all showcasing the very latest machinery, some of which will have never been seen before in the UK. But we all know that’s not what we would be there for; we’re there for classics and bargains… and there…

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