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 • The home-working, partly-dressed and unwashed men of the mag
ISLE OF WIGHT PITCHES NEW ROAD RACE • Moments later, outraged locals shout ‘Not in my back yard!’
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
ps mail • Write a letter to The PS and if it’s Star Letter material you win some gear. Last month’s star won a nice coat
PSPB social club • Bikes and goings-on from our Facebook group and web forum
Into the UNKNOWN • 28-year-old Sam Tooth had never restored a bike, never owned a KR-1S. But that didn’t stop him diving headlong into his first project, reviving one of Kawasaki’s scorching 250s. And it’s one of the best restos we’ve seen and ridden
SAM’S TOP TIPS
BEST OF THE BEST • Imagine getting your hands on a mega-spec GS1200SS, and then having the ways and means to take it to an even higher level
STARCK CHOICE • If you like to make some sort of statement with your selection of motorcycle, then this thing is quite possibly right up your alley. Le freak, c’est chic…
TWO PERFECT YEARS • WSB is the pinnacle of ‘production’ motorcycle racing, and the 2002 season was perhaps the zenith, but it was the 2000/2001 season that set it up
THE BAYLISS FACTOR
SP-1 THE V-TWIN THAT CHANGED HONDA • The Honda VTR1000 SP-1 drew the V4 superbike racing chapter to a close for Honda. We find out from some of the key people involved in the project what went into that V-twin 20 years after it first raced
ENGLAND EXPECTS MORE • New Daytona 765 Moto2 rep is good… but not outstanding. PB’s lukewarm reception inside
SELL OUT • Triumph only made 1530 Daytona 765s. You can’t buy one, but you might as well know what they would have been like. Here’s Johnny…
NEARLY THERE • MotoGP influence or not, the R1 has struggled to be a consistent Superbike Championship contender. McAMS hope the 2020 bike’s changes will, with their know-how, bridge the gap
CALM FOR THE STORM • It’s been a blowy July. No good for big speeds. When the time is right, Guy Martin is geared-up to blast to that world speed record. Meantime…
RESTO SOS • He’s only been sitting on it for 25 years, and now Stuart Machin is almost ready to revivify his RD500LC. Enter Medium G and Sir Alan to add some welcome extra impetus to this long-postponed procedure
! Matters requiring urgent attention
RESTO SOS UPDATES
What’s the problem? • Bike not running right? Our experts have the answers to the toughest questions
THE REAL LONG-TERMERS • A Ducati is a motorbike just like any other (almost). Treat it with a bit of consideration and it will behave just like all the rest. And it will offer just that little bit extra je ne sais quoi
LIVING WITH A 996
360° GARAGE • He’s a stickler for the correct grease, loves a good clean-up, and builds a very tidy bike indeed
5 favourite tools… • Not everyone can claim to have invented a tool for saving relationships. But Angus can
Decay delays fruition of FZ...