Description
Contents: Road Test – Yamaha XV1100 Virago (Still the Rock of Cruisers, now with 100cc more displacement and about 40 acres of chrome.) Shorts – Yamaha YX600 Radian (More “stuff” than you can buy or steal for $2799 anywhere outside a flophouse fire sale.), Kawasaki ZG1200 Voyager XII (The “stripper” tour bike finally gets a frill.) Special Features – Starship: Ducati 850 Superbike (Aboard Italy’s tomorrow.), Ducati 850: Tech Tour (Soes the world need a twin as fast and sophiscated as a four?), Engines: How Hot? (Five engine configerations – from in-line fours to giant vees – go under the infared scope.) Features – Product Evaluation: Lockhart Kwik Lift (Savior to the latest crew of centerstand-less wonders.), Famous Last Words (Can you guess the bike from the last paragraph of its road test?), Product Evaluation: Dainese Lucky and Monza Leathers (Two sides of off-t5he-rack hides.), Sporting Tires: The Street (Final chapter to The Great Cling Off.), Engine Performance: Beyond The Dyno (What the dyno can’t tell you about the power of spinning parts.), Indian: On The Road Again (Outbreak of “new” Indians in Elsinore, California.), The Road Not Taken (A collection of discarded ideas – combined in a bike that works.) Departments – Editorial (Testing…Sure is fun.), Letters (Buffalo Slurs.), Bits (The Gripper in Hogville.), TDC (Waterskiing.), Newsline (September Throng.), Road Test Index
Issue: September 1987
Condition: Very Good