Practical Sportsbikes

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.

welcome

The team • Your funny front-ended PSPB team

NEW FZ750 BOOK • Want to know absolutely everything about the FZ750? Someone’s done all the hard work

BIKES REUNITED

specials we like • THREE BANGIN’ BUILDS from all around the globe

IN YOUR SHED • Part way through a restoration? Just completed a trick special? Send us your pics, and details

Highs and low(sides) of life in 2020

ps mail • Write a letter to The PS and if it’s Star Letter material you win some gear. Last month’s star won two gloves

PSPB social club • Bikes and goings-on from our Facebook group and web forum

SIMPLE PLEASURES • Fans of big singles are many, and mainly those who have the right roads to enjoy them on. Drew Scott now has exactly the right bike for his local tarmac

Drew’s top tips

RE-RELEASED SINGLE • Steven Hill had owned five CB250RSs before he built the hybrid every singles fan in the 1980s lusted after. Ladies and gentlemen… the mighty CB500RS

STEVEN’S ADVICE

All THE WAY UP TO 11 • Increasingly rare, deliciously subtle, and with an engine heavily reworked by none other than Cosworth (of good old Northampton Town), the Priller RSV Mille SP delivers thudding grunt - with a whole pile of extra revs on top too

RC REVISITED • This budget RC30-alike appeared in The PS eight years ago. It was good then, and now it’s an even better road bike than the real thing. Believe

WEIRD SCIENCE • Bimota have been building hub-centre steered bikes for 30 years (off and on). Here’s how it all began, how it developed, and how it might end

TURNING POINT • Both Bimota and Elf’s efforts at a hub-steer bike had failed so far. But a redesign with simpler components rescued the Tesi’s DCS system from total irrelevance

THE SECOND COMING • Thirty years after the Ducati-powered Tesi 1D, Bimota’s hub-centre steered road bike is back. PB gets the first ride on the latest Tesi H2

WOULD YOU PAY £350,000 MORE FOR HALF A SECOND A LAP? • It’s an age-old question that’s never been properly answered: how can a pimped-up road bike lap within two seconds of a money-no- object MotoGP bike? Mat Oxley crunches the numbers by comparing race pace between the two categories, and speaking to WSB champ Jonathan Rea, and someone called Rossi

SUPERBIKE V SUPERSTOCK AT THE TT

RETURN OF THE POCKET ROCKET • Aprilia’s new RS 660 is a scratcher’s dream, and yet not a chiropractor’s meal-ticket

2020 BIKES OF THE DECADE • In 2010 170bhp and 210kg was the sportsbike deal. Now, 10 years later, it’s 200bhp and 200kg. Here’s PB’s selection of the best of them

Technology partner • R1M’s huge choice of settings proves it worth at a soggy Silverstone trackday

RESTO SOS • With her sights set on a nice, new MT-07, runaway tickover is the least of Helen’s problems as her miserly boyfriend tries to palm her off with a shabby XJ600. But wait… Gary and Alan are here to make things better

Matters requiring urgent attention

OUR EXPERTS

What’s the problem? • Bike not running right? Our experts have the answers to the toughest questions

DON’T RUSH IT • Agreed, it feels like...