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

COMING OF AGE IN ’23

CLOCK WINNA TIME! (OR WILL IT BE? OR WAS IT?)

MINT ONE OWNER LC UP FOR GRABS

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Ps Mail • Write a letter to The PS and if it's Star Letter material you win some cleaning products. Oxford Products’ products

IN YOUR SHED

PS HEROES 5. STEVE LINSDELL

GSX-R: THE LAST BLAST • The GSX-R looks set to disappear from the UK next year. We celebrate one of motorcycling’s greatest machines with some head-down boogie to the Bol d’Or on the first and last UK models: the 1985 750, and the 2022 1000R

WATCHING THE GSX-R MASTERS AT WORK • Nobody has covered more racing miles (and won more World Endurance titles) on GSX-Rs than long-distance specialists Suzuki Endurance Racing Team (SERT)

THE MADNESS OF THE BOL • 24-Hours (vingt-quatres heures to you) of racing, beer, and the deranged making their own entertainment. Worth it at least twice in your life

GSX-R’S LAST RIDE • The rise and demise of Suzuki’s sportsbike legend – and the gradual end of sportsbikes as we know them

100 YEARS OF FRENCH CRAZINESS • The Bol d’Or 24-Hour race celebrated its centenary in September – it’s come a long way since riders used to rattle around dirt tracks eating food from tin cans strapped to their petrol tanks

GREEN PARTY • Brian McGregor’s heavily yet tastefully reworked 1975 H2C is a riot of hi-energy and super sounds. One to remember

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Classic Super Bikes

SOUND SINGLE-CYLINDER SENSE • Honda XBR500, Suzuki SG350 Goose, or Yamaha SRX600... all have their merits as smart bikes to run when times are hard. Yet there has to be some entertainment too

PROJECT HARRIS MAGNUM • The bare bones of this Harris Magnum 2 are thoroughly inspected, and then properly repaired via the services of the estimable Fengineer. Here’s to skilled workers

What's the problem?

DUCATI 900SS

LAURENT STREIFF 1989 YAMAHA TDR250 1989 YAMAHA TDR250 • It’s not just the total distance covered that’s impressive, but the extreme terrain this particular TDR had put under its wheels. Outstanding job

BARGAINS TO BIMOTA • He cannot afford to be picky about the machines he trades. But as luck would have it a cherished gem from his past turns up to warm his cockles

GREAT BRITISH GARAGES • Ex-factory XR41 GS1000 on the bench. There’s some good stuff going through here...

Stability the enemy of speed • To close in on 300mph Guy needs slippier (and far less stable) aerodynamics. Drag is bad

Success at last for Gasket Gary • Foolishly selecting an incorrect gasket set Medium G’s Kat progress back a touch... all OK now

Playing a long waiting game • Key components are now in place to build a full house race engine for Monkey Wrench Racing

The man just can’t get a brake

Aye, me hearties! She rises! • Stand to yer guns, ye dogs, ye! The finest PS special of all is shortly to emerge from dry dock

PROJECT HUNTER WITH Gary Hurd