Brilliant box-fresh bikes that bring ballistic bangs for your bucks

Gerard Kane guides you through the highlight machines from this month’s sales – top bikes still get big money, but the tempting prices show it remains a buyer’s market

Times have changed for ace Ducati mechanic and restorer Ray Petty . He shows us round his London workshop, full of Italian goodness from all eras

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Having bought his Yamaha RD200DX because of its tasty exhausts, Alex found that the two-stroke’s fuelling is miles out. But he’s come up with a canny solution...

From the exotic to the prosaic, there’s all manner of classic metal on the market. Gez Kane picks out some of this month’s highlights for those on the hunt...