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Used Bike Guide

Huge collection of rider tips on loads of popular (and some rare) bikes. What to look for, benefits, potential problems. Recovered from the Original GMC site.

Honda CBR 900 RRW Fireblade 1998

The Best and Worse Japanese Bikes of the Nineties

9 years ago 9 years agoHONDA, Kawasaki, Suzuki, Used Bike Guide, YAMAHACB1000N, CB500, CBR900, FZR1000, GSF400, GSX600, GSXR 750, KLX250, KLX650, RGV250, SZR660, TDM850, TZR250R, XJR1200, XS1100, XTZ660, XTZ750

The Nineties This was the decade of the race replica, no doubt about that! The fundamental survival route was minimal mass and maximum power crafted in a way that made...

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The Best and Worse Japanese Bikes of the Eighties

9 years ago 9 years agoHONDA, Kawasaki, Suzuki, Used Bike Guide, YAMAHA

The Eighties A decade when weight was lost, handling improved, engines became more powerful and the overall package more useful. It was also one of ever increasing complexity, poor frugality...

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The Best and Worse Japanese Bikes of the Seventies

9 years ago 9 years agoHONDA, Kawasaki, Suzuki, Used Bike Guide, YAMAHA

The Seventies This was a decade that began to erode Honda’s omnipresence in the manufacture of four stroke twins and fours. That they failed to really develop their sixties designs...

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The Best and Worst Japanese Bikes of the Sixties

9 years ago 9 years agoHONDA, Kawasaki, Suzuki, Used Bike Guide, YAMAHACB250G5, CB250K1, CB450, CB72, CB77, DT175, KE125, YAS1, YD3, YDS-3, YES2

The Sixties The bike that defined the sixties was undoubtedly Honda’s CB750, though there was a lot that was bad about it, its overwhelming impression was good. It put to...

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Buying Newish Triumphs

9 years ago 9 years agoTriumph T150 Trident, Triumph T160 Trident, Used Bike Guide

Thanks to those nice parallel importer chappies (see the ads in MCN if you’ve been asleep for the past few years), prices for used Triumphs of recent vintage are at...

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