I always enjoy revisiting memories with old photos, and when it has motorcycles in it, it’s even better! This tatty old picture took me back to 1992 quicker than riding a Yamaha FZR1000 with seized brakes. This was taken outside my very first workshop in Romford. The space itself was snug, so by day the […]
Evo Honda CBX1000
This may look like a stock Honda CBX1000 to the untrained eye, but a closer examination reveals a surprising amount of subtle and tasteful modifications. And so it should, as everything on the Evo Honda CBX1000 has been stripped and replaced, or modified, to bring the estimated build cost to around £20,000. The starting point […]
Roger Turner’s Kwik Kat
You don’t just bump into old friends at motorcycle shows and events. Sometimes you also get to see the machines that made you smile when you were younger. One of my favourite magazines was always Performance Bikes and there wasn’t a single issue I missed between 1986 and the early 1990s. The back page was […]
The 1998 Honda CBR900RR-W – best bargain Blade?
The Honda CBR900RR Fireblade has been around for more than two decades. Designed by Tadao Baba and launched in 1992, it immediately made every other sports bike at the time look stupid. Now 22 years later, the current CBR1000RR Fireblade is still cutting edge technology, but the impact of it is much less dramatic. Which […]
The model motorcyclist?
For more than 20 years of my adult life, I’ve enjoyed breaking motorcycles for a living. The crashed, bashed, munters and even minters if the sums add up. Some people just can’t understand why I do it. Yet they’re often the same people looking for a secondhand part to fix their own bike. But to […]
Hang on – what happened to the Rescogs Mothership?
We’ve all put things down and forgotten about them. Usually it’s your keys, or an MOT certificate. But I’ve just remembered I’ve got a motorbike I completely forgot about! Anyone else remember The Mothership? It last crossed my mind more than 6 months ago, when I publicly wondered what to do with the £500 Honda […]
Motorcycle brochures – time capsule to the past…
Despite the rise of the internet, there’s still something exciting about motorcycle brochures for a then-new machine. Their only purpose was to get you interested in whichever model was featured, whether you were picking them up at a dealers, a show, or a race meeting. I found a whole stack of old brochures a few […]