New & Features

Venhill workshop cable and hose clips Venhill now has a range of kits which come in a durable toolbox, which means they’re easy to transport. You’ve got a selection of British-made hoses and cables with high-quality fittings so you can upgrade control cables and hydraulic lines on any modern or classic machine, road or track,…

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Phil Magson’s take on Rossi drifting Phil can paint or draw a picture of you on your bike, or even copy a picture of a motorcycling hero that you’d like to have up on your wall. Phil has a number of pictures already finished including Hayden, Rossi, Stoner, John Surtees and Simoncelli among others, and…

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Classic Motorcycle Mechanics on sale now! Brim-ful with rebuild info, mechanical advice and period articles, the current issue celebrates 20 years of Honda's Fireblade, the story on a reader's ugly duckling-to-swan Yamaha XS750, plus features on Honda's GL1000, Suzuki's all-conquering XR41, a spotters guide on Yamaha's AS 125 twins, plus workshop advice on separating seized…

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Motorcycle loading ramps If you take your pride and joy to a show, then you’ll know that getting it there and back safely and in one piece is the most important thing. If you’re transporting an expensive classic, or more than one, then it could pay to invest in a good quality ramp – an…

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Joey Dunlop helmet stickers First available 10 years ago, these sticker designs are made using a thermal transfer process, which gives them a prolonged outside durability without fading. The stickers will be available in a variety of sizes up to 12 inches large, with the smallest ones starting at two inches high and retailing for…

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Globe trotter Nick Sanders at work Nick Sanders will be presenting his life and adventures at 15 Yamaha dealers around the country over the next month. Focusing on his latest trip, the Incredible Ride, where Nick rode his Yamaha XT1200Z Super Ténéré 51,000 miles up and down the Americas three times – the last two…

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Kettle Clinick forum founder Barry created DVDs Now available, the GT750 restoration DVD is a full restoration (the result of three years’ work) of a Kettle and concentrates on assembling the bike correctly and safely, rather than going into model variations in detail. The guy behind the DVD is Kettle Clinick forum founder Barry. He…

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A new bike club has been set up that specialises in pristine early Honda CB 750s up to the K6 – the vision behind the club is to keep some lovely examples, either restored or unrestored, of Honda CB 750s so people can remember the bike and view it as close as possible to how…

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Graeme Crosby autobiography It probably says something about the cultural divide that British readers are going to be asking ‘what’s larrikin?’ long before they’ve even so much as turned a page of Graeme Crosby’s 432-page autobiography (it means mischievous or hooligan, by the way, being a slang word from Down Under).  That’s a big page…

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Hi-vis clothing for motorcyclists in Ireland In a recent email to the Motorcyclists’ Action Group (MAG), the Irish RSA said: “I can confirm that the RSA has not dropped the position outlined in the Motorcycle Safety Action Plan. We do intend to seek to introduce the (hi-vis) measure in 2014, subject to consultation with motorcyclists…

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