Classic Motorcycle Mechanics

Smaller bikes, bigger smiles?

What is it about smaller bikes? Do they really give us bigger smiles?

I’ve been thinking about this a lot recently and there are shades of it in this very issue. Firstly, we’ve got our mate Andy Bolas on board a tiddler, Yamaha’s FZR250 Zeal. He waxes lyrical about the sound the little four-cylinder four-stroke made and how the power delivery was almost two-stroke in feel…

Then there’s Charlie Oakman, our ad-man turned

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