Features

Royal Enfield Scram 411 | Real world road test

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Nik Samson

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24th April 2023

According to the press blurb, Royal Enfield’s Scram 411 is a stripped-back roadgoing version of the A2-licence compliant Himalayan adventure bike (that’s trailie to you and me) with a smaller front wheel (to give sharper steering), and a slightly less upright riding position.
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GSX 1100 Extra Tidy

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Alex Bestwick

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12th April 2023

When Suzuki released the four-valves-per-cylinder GSX1100 on the motorcycling world in 1980, it obviously had something very different in mind than the bike you see before you now.
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Green Monster

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Alex Bestwick

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3rd April 2023

Nik gets up close with a legend – Dutch’s very, very long, very, very green behemoth of a bike.
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Learn to grow your own veg with help from Kitchen Garden magazine

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Arianne Davey

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24th March 2023

Download your free taster of the award-winning Kitchen Garden magazine to help you grow and cook your own delicious produce.
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Book of the Week: Café Racer International Volume 2

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Alex Bestwick

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20th March 2023

Our book of the week for this week is Mike Cowton’s Café Racer International Volume 2!
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Burning Bright…

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Alex Bestwick

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20th March 2023

The story of this bike, the idea behind it, goes back a long time… a long, long time so are you sitting comfortably? Then we’ll begin…
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Rare Breed, revisited!

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Nik Samson

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8th March 2023

Far back in the mists of ancient time (well, 1991 anyway), in issue 167 of this very magazine, Rich King, erstwhile photographer/scribe of this parish, went to see a guy named Nigel from Lincolnshire about his really rather stunning long, low, blue DOHC 750 Honda chop called Rare Breed.
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Steam’d Shovel

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Nik Samson

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21st February 2023

Mark bought three boxes of Shovelhead bits from someone in Cornwall, and this bike ’ere, a ’75 1340, is the last of the three to be put together.
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Unique Steampunk Suzuki

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Nik Samson

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10th February 2023

Chris’s steampunk Suzuki really turned heads at Motorcycle Live!, including Nik’s. He takes a closer look.
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The Thing…

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Mark Lancaster

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27th January 2023

THE THING’, AS THIS BIKE’S CALLED, WAS BORN OUT OF AN IDEA TO BUILD AN OLD SCHOOL ‘70S CHOPPER. Simon […]
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Features

Royal Enfield Scram 411 | Real world road test

GSX 1100 Extra Tidy

Green Monster

Learn to grow your own veg with help from Kitchen Garden magazine

Book of the Week: Café Racer International Volume 2

Burning Bright…

Rare Breed, revisited!

Steam’d Shovel

Unique Steampunk Suzuki

The Thing…

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