If there’s one thing people associate with British bikes, it’s oil leaks. Rick looks at how to keep your shed floor clean by making sure the cylinder head joint is properly sealed

Rick spends the festive break making further progress on his Project Bradbury. It exercises his ingenuity and tool-making ability, but doesn’t give him a very merry Christmas...

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Rear shock failure puts a dampener on Michael’s off-road plans

Not the ones in the cylinder head, but the valves and variable flaps hiding in your exhaust system – made famous by the Yamaha’s EXUP. Here’s the what, why and how…

Massively inclined engine, five valves per cylinder and almost vertical intakes. So is Yamaha’s FZ750 something truly special?