Features

From Zero to 200: The speed and power of superbikes

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Arianne Davey

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19th June 2023

Superbikes are perhaps the ultimate machines when it comes to speed and power.
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Stinky Pinky

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Alex Bestwick

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2nd June 2023

Ryan Dawson, born in Essex, was raised around American culture; choppers, custom cars, hot rods, drag racing, by a bunch of petrolheads.
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Social Distance

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Alex Bestwick

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22nd May 2023

Radical bikes, bikes that push the boundaries, these days are few and far between. Back in the ‘70s, ‘80s and ‘90s there were many built but, as we’ve moved slowly and inexorably further into the 21st Century, that trend’s slowed almost to a stop…
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Royal Enfield Scram 411 | Real world road test

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Nik Samson

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24th April 2023

According to the press blurb, Royal Enfield’s Scram 411 is a stripped-back roadgoing version of the A2-licence compliant Himalayan adventure bike (that’s trailie to you and me) with a smaller front wheel (to give sharper steering), and a slightly less upright riding position.
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GSX 1100 Extra Tidy

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Alex Bestwick

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12th April 2023

When Suzuki released the four-valves-per-cylinder GSX1100 on the motorcycling world in 1980, it obviously had something very different in mind than the bike you see before you now.
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Learn to grow your own veg with help from Kitchen Garden magazine

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Arianne Davey

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24th March 2023

Download your free taster of the award-winning Kitchen Garden magazine to help you grow and cook your own delicious produce.
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Book of the Week: Café Racer International Volume 2

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Alex Bestwick

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20th March 2023

Our book of the week for this week is Mike Cowton’s Café Racer International Volume 2!
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Burning Bright…

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Alex Bestwick

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20th March 2023

The story of this bike, the idea behind it, goes back a long time… a long, long time so are you sitting comfortably? Then we’ll begin…
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Rare Breed, revisited!

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Nik Samson

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8th March 2023

Far back in the mists of ancient time (well, 1991 anyway), in issue 167 of this very magazine, Rich King, erstwhile photographer/scribe of this parish, went to see a guy named Nigel from Lincolnshire about his really rather stunning long, low, blue DOHC 750 Honda chop called Rare Breed.
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Steam’d Shovel

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Nik Samson

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21st February 2023

Mark bought three boxes of Shovelhead bits from someone in Cornwall, and this bike ’ere, a ’75 1340, is the last of the three to be put together.
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