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• Intro
Editor's intro

• Calendar
Give us your club and forum meet details!

• Forgotten bike
Suzuki’s TL1000R remembered

• Letters
A tattoo artist moans. But wins Star Letter! Result!

• Show us yours
A CB900, a YZF pretending to be a Norton. What next?

• Spotter’s guide
Getting down and dirty with the Suzuki DR350

• Unsung hero
Glam gran Jayne passes test and buys GPX!

• Laverda 750SF
Scooperman rides this classic Italian twin

• Main test
Seminal and supersonic: Kawasaki’s ZZ-R1100       

• Fuel’s gold
Just what is modern fuel doing to our classics?

• Reader’s restoration
Lovely GL1000 built from $900 wreck

• MIRA files
Honda’s early V4 effort: the VF750F recalled

• Workshop
Big oily men of the world unite. And then build!

• Stan Stephens
Stan’s angered at people calling him a cheat! As if!

• Perfect polishing
In part one of his guide on how to polish parts perfectly, Mark Haycock tells us what’s needed to get some shine on your nuts

• Workshop guide: Batteries
When your sulphide is sulking there’s no need for a padded dry cell. Help is at hand – Steve Cooper is CMM’s battery boy

• Panasonic competition
Win a digital camera in our Nick Nicholls comp

• Rated products
Workshop tools and bike accessories

• What you need to know about brake calipers
One of the easiest ways to improve your modern classic’s performance is the braking system

• Make or break: RG 500
In the last of his ‘Make or Break’ series, Scottie shares with us his latest spoils

• Project Stinger
At long last the engine cases of Satan’s Suzuki are about to be partially populated

• MacKenzie LC hunt
Well, it didn’t take long for a CMM reader to help out its latest recruit to find a project bike, did it?

• Yamaha RD400 buying guide
They don’t get much better than the RD400

• Club guide
If there's a club, you'll find it here

• Archive image
Shell Harris

• Mark Williams
Spotter's guide

• Showstopper
Kawasaki AR125

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