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When I first started riding cracking the ton was a goal we all tried to achieve on our collection of various Jap 250's, early Sunday mornings most of us would be on the dual carriageway lying flat on the tank. The RD's were a little bit faster than the GT's, most of the 2 strokes cracked 90/95...

Iv'e just read that the average age for motorcyclists in Britain is 49, if commuter mopeds are taken out of the equation the age is probably higher. The drop in numbers of young un's taking up riding is down to a combination of the availability of cheap cars, high insurance premiums, tough anti...

Cafe Racer Magazine France held the first Cafe Racer Days event in Dieppe at the end of April, never got there myself, but have heard lot's of good feedback, and seen some nice pics on youtube. Jim Redman, Paul Smart and Dave Hailwood were there, the usual things at a rally were on offer...

Has anyone fitted a Trelock bike speedo on their build, they look pretty good and are much cheaper than motorcycle digital speedo's, I want to scrap the original BMW R80 clocks for something smaller and neater, but the cable fittings and ratio is different to other bikes, so I'm fairly limited.

Hi, I'm currently turning my 1981 RT80 in to a Cafe Racer, I,m going to fit peashooter or Dunstall silencers, which are much shorter than the originals which will mean re-jetting, the Bings run a 145 main jet, I've heard that increasing the main jet to 170 does the job, before I start messing...

Hi from not so sunny France, I have a BMW R80rt which I,m giving the cafe racer treatment, stripped everything that isn't essential, losing 50lb in weight, the bike not me, hope to have it up and running by March. Frog