Classic Motorcycle Mechanics

Still crazy after 30 years!

Remember those bikes that just seem to be – and always have been – crazy and as mad as a box of frogs?

They come and go in a generation and can even defy cubic capacity, so they don’t even need to be big-bore machines. I mean – I so recall riding a YPVS for the first time and thinking that it was a completely mad machine with a mental powerband that blew my

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