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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I SUCCUMBED. OR, as younger people say, I caved. I’d been looking at my Phantom’s bodywork (the victim of a blow-over respray prior to my renewed ownership, after a white ‘wrap’ was removed) and alway

This is a tale of two Honda CB350s. Martin Short’s red ’73 model is part of his family history, inspiring his love of bikes – and the jaw-dropping restoration of his amazing prize-winning green example

Gary Bamford (right) spent 25 years as a truck mechanic, but his passion was always old bikes – and Greeves in particular. Since starting British Bikes 1970, he and his colleague Mike Ford have never looked back and are now the official classic Greeves specialists

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