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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NEW-OLD V-DUE UP FOR GRABS

BECOME A MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AIDER • Rider-focused charity aims to recruit 1000 motorcyclists trained to support anyone in need of help. Why not you?

Avon’s last UK tyre plant to close

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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

PS Social club

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

PS HEROES • A visit to Santa Pod aged 12 was enough to ensure Ian King would spend his entire life (so far) firing himself up drag strips the world over – and to great effect

HIGHER BUSA • Incredible as it might first appear, here is proof positive you can build a racebike from a hyperbike, and yet still have a perfectly rideable missile for the road, too

INTERNATIONAL RESCUE • Few manufacturers have made such consistently wonderful bikes as Bimota. And few marques have consistently been in cash crisis as often as Bimota. Now, with Kawasaki backing them, there are new machines...

NO EASY FIX • The human mind isn’t as easy to repair as a bike, but it can be done, with the right tools and understanding. And you, your bikes, and riding pals can play an important part in getting anyone better

NO SHOW PONY • Some specials are made specifically to shimmer in the sun when paraded in front of summer crowds. Not here. This trick-framed GSX-R1000 is used to full effect in all weathers

MID-SIZED TRAILIES • Decent value, huge fun, and still the best machines yet invented to improve your riding

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PROJECT HARRIS MAGNUM • A period-correct GSX1100 engine is found, while the frame goes back to Harris for a proper inspection by the man who built it back in 1984. You know it makes sense

WHAT’S THE PROBLEM? • Bike not running right? Our experts have the answers to the toughest questions

YAMAHA FZ750 • Still just off the resto pop radar, still with abundant spares, still a great thing to ride

THE REAL LONG-TERMERS • With 100,000 miles already dusted, this Honda seems well set for another dose of the same. 18 years of Blackbird travel are set for repeat

BARGAINS TO BIMOTA • Virago sold, Thundercat undergoing prep for sale, potential ZXR400 trade in the offing. And a full £78 now in the kitty to buy a Bimota with...

GREAT BRITISH GARAGES • The nation's home mechachics and bike industry pros reaveal their workshop set-ups. the.r best gear, and top tips

You’ve got to let things slide • After five long years Alan finally gets round to servicing the poor old CRM’s front caliper

Two bikes, two jobs, one win • The Fengineer and his TIG machine are drafted in to fabricate stands, and rescue a brakeplate

TS house of bodged horrors • Machine prepped by magazine ‘professionals’ turns out to be something of an old nail

Steering in the right direction • A thorough service of the headstock reveals this Bandit to be tired but by no means worn out

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