Your typical mancave rarely reaches a saturation point. Even when others might think that there’s no room left to cram another eBay late night purchase in, the curator will always be able to liberate space for the next impulse purchase. Mancave trinkets can come in many shapes and sizes, some are purely nostalgic, yet others are damn right pointless....
Our new series ("Heap of the Week") kicks off this week with a manky RS125... The desire for grown men to restore ageing two stroke motorcycles shows no signs of slowing down. There are so many potential owners looking for a suitable donor stroker to restore. Any scruffy and unloved examples that find their way to us are usually offered...
For many the bike breaking business is often the springboard to becoming a used motorcycle dealer. Over time many of these firms step it up to become franchised dealers. It’s a long road but can be done. For others though like Scott Redmond, life with the cheap seats of the motorcycle industry is exactly where it’s at. Nitros Motorcycle...
What is it? Ducati were in a bad place in the early nineties, they were desperate for a sales success, not too many people would’ve expected it to come in the shape of a parts bin special. The M900 was the first of the Monster family, but it was the M600 that arrived a year later that went on to...
Trying to value classic bikes is a tricky one, trying to stick a value on what a basket case is worth would be an easier task you might think, but if anything it’s even more confusing to place a price on an assortment of remains from a once complete machine. No two projects are ever the same, that’s the...
A 600cc machine that felt much more than the sum of its parts, the Kawasaki ZX6G was physically big for a middleweight, it had a half decent pillion pad and pumped out over 100bhp, it made a lot of sense then, and is still a viable option almost twenty years since it arrived in 1998. Kawasaki had been building...
For over thirty years Suzuki have been building the GSX-R750 and over those three decades, there’s been a mix of hit and miss models. In 1996 Suzuki broke with tradition and dumped the up and over cradle frame that had been a trademark of the GSX-R750 models for just over 10 years. It wasn’t the only major shake-up Suzuki...
For decades Honda left it to others to fight it out for the title of the worlds fastest production bike, in 1996 they wheeled out the all new CBR1100XX Blackbird, the 1137cc water cooled engine was good for 160bhp and it achieved a top speed of 178mph, which was good enough to crown it champ. The Blackbird is so...
The way that we buy and sell motorcycles is changing. It’s now all a far cry from the days when we would scan the small ads in the MCN or Bike Trader and then put our trust in a sellers verbal description on the phone before setting off with an envelope full of notes. The internet is the go to...
Some of the best buys that I find are those that I don’t actively look for. This L reg Honda CBR600FR passed through the local bike trade before ending up in my life. The initial dealer that took it in with a job lot of other bikes kept the good stuff and touted the rest about. A guy that I know was offered...
