Practical Sportsbikes Magazine - November 2017
Practical Sportsbikes Magazine - November 2017
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In this issue
God rides a Harley, Satan thrashes this: Roland Sands’ “2T Attack” RD400/TZ250 hybrid
Must see bike collections, essential kit, world’s best specials and the best bits of 1987
Dunstall cafe racer Kettle, tidy ZX-9R, unlikely CB350SG and an NSR250SP on the bench
A world of fiery two-strokes and big displacement four-stroke fours – sign of a life so far well-lived
Dukes And Hazards
The Isle Of Man is an unforgiving place for any machinery, not least big twins from Bologna. Despite meticulous prep, a small stone did forJames Hillier’s Classic TT.
4 mins
Greek Tragedy (With A Happy Ending)
It arrived from Athens, a hound with a bag of nails in its jaws. After untold amounts of pain, suffering and expense, Tony Barrow’s RG finally emerged, as the pristine square four he always craved.
10+ mins
Wreckless Erik
He was going to build his own bikes come hell or high water – and that he achieved. Erik Buell threw engineering conservatism to the wind and although his fortunes fluctuated, his huge reputation endures.
6 mins
Droop Snoot Beaut
It ‘only’ took Mike Newman four years to get his Bandit/’busa/ZX-9/10 hybrid into exactly the shape he wanted. Now it’s precisely the machine he had in his head all that time ago.
7 mins
​​James Harper
After reading all he could on two-stroke tuning, it was time to abandon the ‘bum dyno’ and get serious. 12 years later James is getting big results from two and four-stroke engines.
3 mins
Project Bike Budget Drag Bike
PART 2: TIDY UP FRAME AND DRY BUILD The mess is starting to look less like a mess and more like a motorcycle – before it becomes a disparate collection of parts again. But things begin to fit (where they touch).
3 mins
Practical Sportsbikes Magazine Description:
Publisher: Bauer Consumer Media
Category: Automotive
Language: English
Frequency: Monthly
Fixing, restoring and riding sportsbikes from the 70s, 80s and 90s
Practical Sportsbikes magazine is about buying, fixing, restoring and riding sportsbikes from the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s.
Every issue of PS – the magazine home of new-wave Japanese and Italian classics – is packed with:
- The most inspiring and ingenious reader restorations
- The most in-depth road tests and buyers’ guides
- Unmissable workshop tips and how-to features
Practical Sportsbikes gets under the skin of the bikes that really matter to our readers and explains how best to maintain, rebuild and enjoy them. So if you’re in to sportsbikes from the 1970-1990s, PS is essential reading.
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