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.

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The team • Big, bad and wayward

SUZUKI MAKES NEW KAT TANKS… • But only in limited numbers: more repro parts aren’t are a dead-cert. Get ’em while you can

BIKES REUNITED

specials we like • Bangin’ builds from around the globe (and Croydon)

It’s all been done

ps mail • Write a letter to The PS and if it’s Star Letter material you win trousers. Last month’s won a jacket

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

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

AWKWARD CUSTOMER • The GSX-R1100K has a bad rep. Does it really deserve it? And if so, what can you do to turn such a malevolent device into something more rewarding to ride

‘KILLER K’ AT THE TT

OIL-COOLED GSX-R1100 TIMELINE

HOW TO TAME A GSX-R1100K

ROUGH ‘N’ (R)EDDIE • It may have an old saucepan for a clutch cover, and it might not be entirely to Rob Muzzy spec, but Steve Cundall’s Lawson Rep is in the true spirit of Superbikes

STEVE’S ADVICE

SELECTOR 1990s 125s • Genuinely fast, yet annoyingly fragile if not religiously maintained, the most petite road-going performance packages of the last century are today’s top value items

SERIAL THRILLER • 20 years of GSX-R1000, and nary a duff one. The latest meets its favva: the K1

TAKING A BIG RISK • Suzuki let the Hayabusa line come to an end… or so it seemed. The most notorious hyperbike is back, but it’s not all-new. And on paper, it’s making less power. Have Suzuki lost the plot with their latest big-bore GSX-R? Maybe not

THE EXPERT VIEW

Practical sportsbikes

A VERY MODERN CLASSIC • The GSX-R1000 is 20 years old. But the K1 is showing no signs of acting its age yet

FOUR GENERATIONS OF POWER

THE BALANCE BIKE • Suzuki’s GSX-RR is the best bike in MotoGP right now, not because it’s the fastest motorcycle but because it’s the most balanced motorcycle. This has been Suzuki’s aim ever since the inline-four replaced their much less successful V4 GSV-R

WIN A SENA SF4 DUAL PACK COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

KAWASAKI GPz1100 B1,B2 • The big beast of early 1980s inline fours, this 40-year-old is now a realistic resto proposition

MODEL GUIDE

EXPERT VIEW

OUR EXPERTS

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

THE REAL LONG-TERMERS • A perfect example of knowing when to hold and when to fold... Richy hung on to his LC when all around him were losing theirs

LIVING WITH RD LC/YPVS

PROJECT ZX990 TURBO IT’S NEVER EASY • Complications for the ZX990: so what’s new?Our team forges ahead with unshakeable resolve

360° GARAGE • Once a small boy in the big world of bikes, MG is now an old man struggling to stay with the programme

5 MG’s favourite tools... • Almost unbelievably for a career luddite, no copper and hide hammer in the line-up. Can this be true?

Medium G’s BIG conversion • Yep, your hardcore fins ’n’ flatslides freak has bought a new, liquid-cooled, injected...