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Made You Look

The exterior may scream ‘classic’ but there are enough details and custom touches on Paul Wood’s ST170 powered Mk1 Escort to keep you guessing for days. No wonder it took him 10 years to build.

Join The Club Ford Classic & Capri Owners Club

Championing Ford’s unsung ’60s duo, Stephen Wickham explains the club’s continued success.

Rock & Blues Old School Weekender

The 35th anniversary rock & blues lurched from baked to drenched, but were we bothered? Not for a minute!

HOW TO GO RACING

It may seem like a wild ride, but it’s not as intimidating as it looks. Here’s how to go racing in 2020…

SPECIAL EDITION DOLOMITE 1500

Andrew Burford reckons that a 1500SE represents the epitome of Dolomite design. Mike Taylor meets the man who likes to champion the underdog, and his ultra-rare example of Triumph’s evergreen Dolomite saloon.

MotoE: BRIGHT SPARK!

Dull, silent snooze-fest? Or the future of motorbike racing? The electric MotoGP support series MotoE has just finished its first season. Our man Alan Dowds went to watch the final round at Valencia, and find out how it’s gone.

PROJECT ZOIC

By 1958 Standard’s midrange saloon, the Vanguard, was ten years old, starting to look long in the tooth and struggling against the competition. Sales had tailed off so much that there was no money being generated for re-investment in a new model, though one was badly needed. ZOIC was the name given to the project to liven up the range. Phil Homer finds that far from being a stop-gap, the cars turned out to be the best Vanguards the company built.

JOLLY FAST, GREEN GIANT - 2012 KAWASAKI ZZR 1400

Ian Carson has got a handful of bikes, but when he heads off to Ireland with his son, Aiden, it’s got to be on his 2012 Kawasaki ZZR 1400. In his own words, he tell us exactly why that is…

Bringing the past back to life

Robert Browett bought his 1967 TR4A in October 2012, but he has a history with the model which goes back to the 1960s.

FUNSIZE

Earlier in the year, we had the chance to Raz Yamaha's new and updated R3 and R125.Now.they've updated the naked models in the family as well, so we headed over to Spain for quick blast...

MORLEY'S MACAU MARVEL

Morley Faulkner worked in the Standard-Triumph Competitions Department and was fortunate enough to drive the Macau racer on several occasions. He never forgot what a delight that car was to drive and has just achieved a long-held dream by building this faithful replica.

HALFWAY HEROES

They’re not sportsbikes, they’re not nakeds, they’re halfway between the two and they’re the heroes of the Naughties. We took these two icons for a blast…

FAST ENDURANCE ON A MOTO GUZZI V7 III

Ever fancied taking a café racer endurance racing? No, we haven’t either, but here at Fast Bikes, we’ll try anything once…

Early TR6 comes home

Steve Denton first got into Triumphs as the result of a misunderstanding. It was a most fortuitous mistake though and he now has the Triumph fleet of his dreams, including his ideal car in this early TR6.

BUCKET LIST 2020

It might still be cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey, but this is no time for wittering or complacency; it’s time to get plotting.

Fortune favours the brave

If you are buying a £2 CD from the internet, then you can probably take a chance on it being OK. If you are buying something as complex and potentially expensive as a Triumph Stag, you would probably be well advised to check it out thoroughly before parting with your cash. Sometimes though, you can take a chance and get away with it.

CLOCKWORK ORANGE?

Shawn Daniels has fully restored his 1968 Herald 13/60 convertible. It has ended up a very unusual and very eye-catching shade of orange, but it is fair to say that the restoration went anything but like clockwork.

40 YEARS ON....

Graham Robson reflects on the remarkable career of Triumph’s Small Car (SC) engine, a unit that went out of production nearly four decades ago but whose legacy lives on in so many of the cars we know and love.

Herald Suspension Overhaul

Thorough investigation turns into a major overhaul and a future-proofed Triumph

Hotter Rockets Launched For 2020

The world’s largest-capacity volume production motorcycle just got bigger.

KENZO

Over the last few years Death Machines of London has produced a number of pioneering builds, some of which you will have seen in these pages, not least the Air Force One Moto Guzzi from the cover of 100% Biker #231. Just when you think they can’t possibly surpass the last build, designer James Hilton of DMOL and engineer Ray Petty of Ray Petty Meccanica raise the bar just a little bit more. And that’s just what they’ve done again…

TOSAN ADJI

Today motorcycle customizing is a phenomenon that spans the entire globe, of that there can be little doubt. However, it’s still all too easy to think that building custom bikes is primarily confined to Europe and the United States and often, even in these days of social media and instant information, we don’t hear about what’s going on in other parts of the world

FRENCH MADE

After the Harley-Davidson Sportster, I would wager that the Yamaha XS650 is the most popular choice for a custom bike across the world

THE MALLE MILE - KEVINGTON HALL, ORPINGTON, KENT

It was that time of year when the Slaughter House Customs team heads to the Malle Mile. For the fourth year running we raced, drank and recovered from our hangovers…

Paul's Harley

Ensuring that a custom motorcycle will comfortably chew up the miles is perhaps not always one of the main priorities for every builder, but for anyone in the National Chopper Club, it’s essential. Never more so than when you happen to live in one of the far flung parts of this island which means that you’ve usually got a journey to do before you even start going anywhere, as Paul, NCC National Secretary and member of Chopper Club Kernow, knows all too well. This is the story of his latest chop.

Carry On Screaming

As is often the case, I first caught sight of Nige Biffin’s cool Honda CB750 at a local show last summer, standing out as it did from the stock stuff and the classics present. Not surprisingly, it wasn’t just the ace paint that grabbed my attention, but the obvious quality of the build throughout. I needed to know more…

Half Litre Corner Eater

Many of us think that we’re not affected in the slightest way by fashion or trends, but, of course, it’s inevitable that we are. But that doesn’t mean that we can’t use the popularity of something to our own advantage—and then make it better of course…

Safe and sound

The introduction of the Halo in 2018 was aesthetically, technically and philosophically controversial, yet it soon saved one Formula 1 driver from serious injury or possibly worse. But it’s only when you see the level of technology that goes into its manufacture that you realise why it’s so effective

Pipe dreams

Modern Formula 1 exhaust systems are about so much more than simply expelling gases, but to achieve the complex geometries required for them to work at their very best the F1 teams need to use a fair bit of compromise and a great deal of red-hot technology

The cutting edge

Racecar Engineering’s aerodynamics guru examines the role, function and effects of single-seater front wings and explains why they are about so much more than just generating downforce