Regular readers will know the 99 had quite an eventful summer holiday at the Le Mans Classic with the rest of the C&SC gang (News special, September). Several ‘issues’ occurred on its travels, meaning

VX220 dream

Fixing advice from our garage proprietor Steve Rothwell

Whether you’re storing or riding through, give the gift of fresh oil

Garden-related trip means Si gets the spanners out

John Westlake fails to fix his Suzuki DR250 , but attempts the Edinburgh Trial anyway