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Speed demon!
Classic Motorcycle Mechanics

Speed demon!

The YDS3 was arguably the quickest 250cc two-stroke out on the street back in the mid-1960s, which is precisely why Steve ‘Stavros’ Parrish wanted one!

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6 mins  |
August 2020
Two to tango!
Classic Motorcycle Mechanics

Two to tango!

CMM reader Dean Faria took two years to restore this 1984 Suzuki TS185 ERX for his wife Nicola (and himself!)

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6 mins  |
August 2020
Rotary club!
Classic Motorcycle Mechanics

Rotary club!

Ralph’s back with Tool of the Month once more, and this time it’s small rotary multi-tools

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4 mins  |
August 2020
Final fling!
Classic Motorcycle Mechanics

Final fling!

There was just one last thing to finish Niall Mackenzie’s YZF-R1 Yamaha – fitting as Yamaha Motor Company celebrates 65 years this July!

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2 mins  |
August 2020
Feet up!
Classic Motorcycle Mechanics

Feet up!

Pegs, positioning and comfort are all that’s on Malc’s mind this month!

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6 mins  |
August 2020
Project Kawasaki Z550F part 4: Carb conundrum!
Classic Motorcycle Mechanics

Project Kawasaki Z550F part 4: Carb conundrum!

How on earth is John going to lever that bank of carbs back into his Kawasaki Z550F? Well, let’s ask him…

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5 mins  |
August 2020
BLUE BLOOD!
Classic Motorcycle Mechanics

BLUE BLOOD!

With work on it finished, we had to do a photo shoot on Niall Mackenzie’s beautifully restored YZR500 – and look at the machine’s bloodline.

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9 mins  |
August 2020
Test Ride Tales!
Classic Motorcycle Mechanics

Test Ride Tales!

A test ride and then the big job of sorting the camshaft out: all in a day’s work for our Allen…

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5 mins  |
August 2020
Story's Story
VW Bus T4&5+

Story's Story

With six-month work sabbaticals approved, a thirst for travel and their beloved T5 on the drive ready and waiting, David and Annemarie Story knew that the summer of 2019 would be one to remember

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6 mins  |
Issue 99
Our Bed's Electric
VW Bus T4&5+

Our Bed's Electric

This demo Crafter is built on the longest and tallest model that VW make and it’s packed with an A-Z of goodies including an electric bed

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5 mins  |
Issue 99
Mongolia or Bust
VW Bus T4&5+

Mongolia or Bust

This month Ian and Juliet are entering Mongolia for the first time, whilst planning their exit strategy and battling Russian bureaucracy

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6 mins  |
Issue 99
Fruity T6
VW Bus T4&5+

Fruity T6

It’s a Blackberry-flavoured T6 with everything thrown in—including a kitchen sink

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5 mins  |
Issue 99
Purple Haze
VW Bus T4&5+

Purple Haze

Robin Holmes had always wanted a camper van, but he started his Dub life with a lilac Beetle

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6 mins  |
Issue 99
Warhorse
VW Bus T4&5+

Warhorse

There may be a whole herd of horses under the bonnet, but it’s the horse on the bonnet that gives Mark Horrell’s T5.1 its identity

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5 mins  |
Issue 99
Family Life
VW Bus T4&5+

Family Life

Behind the scenes of Transporter Life and T4Life, there are several members of the Stowe family, who all seem to have developed their own specialist skills

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4 mins  |
Issue 99
Busy Bees
VW Bus T4&5+

Busy Bees

If you want something done, they say the best people to ask are busy ones, that is most certainly the case here

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5 mins  |
Issue 99
Chasing Classic Cars
VW Bus T4&5+

Chasing Classic Cars

Bicester Heritage and their Sunday Scrambles have become a mecca for classic car owners. One sunny Sunday last year I joined them

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6 mins  |
Issue 99
An Alpine Summer
VW Bus T4&5+

An Alpine Summer

One couple’s eight-country summer adventure, covering more than 3400 miles, seeking out the best of what Alpine Europe has to offer in their T6 Campervan “Nelson”

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4 mins  |
Issue 99
Let's go to work
Racecar Engineering

Let's go to work

How NASCAR returned to racing after lockdown

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7 mins  |
August 2020
Limiting factors
Racecar Engineering

Limiting factors

With the introduction of the ‘all-new’ technical regulations now postponed to 2022, Racecar looks at F1’s latest round of interim changes

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5 mins  |
August 2020
Safety first
Racecar Engineering

Safety first

Racecar looks at the advances made in safety across all motorsport disciplines, and its wider application to society as a whole

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10+ mins  |
August 2020
Stairway to heaven
Racecar Engineering

Stairway to heaven

Peter Bayer is the FIA’s Secretary-General – Sport and takes the time to explain to Racecar the opportunities created by the governing body for young engineers

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10 mins  |
August 2020
So, what's next?
Racecar Engineering

So, what's next?

There’s light at the end of the tunnel for the business of motorsport

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4 mins  |
August 2020
The Mezger effect
Racecar Engineering

The Mezger effect

Porsche’s legendary engine designer died in June at the age of 90, but leaves behind a wonderful legacy both on the road and track

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4 mins  |
August 2020
Entry level
Racecar Engineering

Entry level

The Formula 1 grid could be bolstered by new teams, but they have a mountain to climb to reach the highest echelons of motor racing

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10+ mins  |
August 2020
Sales pitch
Racecar Engineering

Sales pitch

The Glickenhaus 007C Hypercar has not yet been developed, but the American has a customer for his project and two versions of the now V8-powered car will be on the grid at Le Mans

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6 mins  |
August 2020
False reality
Racecar Engineering

False reality

There’s no doubt sim racing has its place, but it also has its pitfalls that should not be ignored

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8 mins  |
August 2020
Corvair vindication?
Racecar Engineering

Corvair vindication?

Was the car really ‘unsafe at any speed’, and who knew?

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8 mins  |
August 2020
Solo racer
The Classic MotorCycle

Solo racer

That he was a world champion on three wheels is well documented, but Eric Oliver was also a more-than-decent solo competitor, too.

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3 mins  |
August 2020
The golden years
The Classic MotorCycle

The golden years

Order a new UK Triumph Thunderbird in 1957 or 1958, and then unless you asked otherwise, it would arrive finished in bronze gold

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6 mins  |
August 2020