Classic Motorcycle Mechanics - November 2013

• Archive
Christian Sarron – our guest at the Stafford Show stars.

• Quick spin – Suzuki RG500
Chris Moss buries the needle deep into the red.

• News
Events, products, news and your favourite columnists too…

• Calendar
What’s on in the month of November.

• Feedback
Did you like the new-look CMM? Let’s find out.

• Show us yours
Your bikes at their very best.

• CMM Gibson's Dyno Day
More than 200 of you turned up. You lovely people!

• Honda CB500
Steve Cooper rides a Marmite Honda twin from the 1990s.

• 1975
It was all about Jaws and a jolly year for biking.

• Ducati 900SS
Jon Bentman rides a pricey Ducati.

• Suzuki GSX1100
Beautiful, brutish and British. Well, kinda...

• Honda CBR100XX Super Blackbird
Is Honda’s 1990s sports-touring missile a future classic?

• Honda CX500 MIRA files
John Nutting rides a cafe racer version of the venerable twin.

• Suzuki Katana
The classic Kat gets the Retro Reboot treatment.

WORKSHOP

• Workshop news
Products, parts and Pip Higham.

• Valve clearances
FireBlade/Hornet clearances clobbered.

• Oil change
Gearbox oil change on strokers.

• SPA Suzuki Katana project
CMM aims to race at Spa with this Kit-Kat.

• Suzuki GSX-R7/11
Part two of this build-it-on-the-cheap!

• Project ZRX1100
Meet the purple people eater. Yeuch!

• Yamaha RD350LC
Sean Allen joins CMM with this RD350LC hybrid frame swop.

• Yamaha RD50MX
Tiny-teeny tiddler buying tips.

• Q&A
It’s back, it’s bad. Well, it’s better than nowt.

• Kawasaki GPZ1000RX
An undervalued classic.