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Contents: The 600 Club (Join now and you may never leave); 600cc Supersport Comparo: Mayhem In The Middle (Honda and Suzuki have raised the bar. Do Kawasaki’s ZX-6R and Yamaha’s YZF-R6 stand a chance?); Middleweight Buyer’s Guide (Fifteen atypical alternatives); Popular Science (A short course on 600-class history) Features – Speed Secrets! (Ever wonder where the really fast guys are faster than us mortals on the track? Team Yamaha’s Anthony Gobert and a factory YZF-R6 Supersport bike fitted with full data acquisition help us find out); Streetbike Surgery: BMW R1150GS (Not even BMW can keep us from messing with a perfectly good bike) Columns & Departments – Lean Angle (Despite no TT for 2001, there’s plenty going on this summer and fall); Deja View (Patrick Bodden lays out his support for the GP1 rule in Grand Prix racing); Megaphone (From the trenches, new guy Josh Norem’s month-one report); Backfires (Readers react to our Honda VTX1800 coverage); Gear Box (Cool streetbike stuff – from hard parts to soft gear); Marketplace; Ad Index; Info Page; Bitter Little Man (Senior editor John Prurient Burns, telling it like it is. (So sorry, Jennifer…) Up To Speed – First Ride: MV Agusta Brutale (Much, much more than simply a stripped F4S); First Ride: Aprilia Caponord (Watch out BMW, this adventure tourer’s for real); Euro Notes (Alan Cathcart on BMW’s future); First Ride: Kawasaki Eliminator 125 (A cruiser for kiddies, but a good entry-level effort); Bike Bizarre (A soybean-oil powered Harley Fat Boy, perhaps); Honda’s New GP Racer; Getaways; Tear-Offs The Real World – Industry Insider (Twelve things about leather suit manufacturing); Smart Money (Kawasaki’s evergreen ZG1000 Concours); How-To (Keeping those pesky cables working smoothly); Doin’ Time (Yamaha’s superb FZ1 joins our long-term fleet); The List (Basic specs on every street-legal streetbike for ’01); Tool Crib (Need a lift? Several options for do-it-yourselfers); Answers (Technical and nontechnical questions answered); Street Savvy (Suspension-Adjustment scenarios); Technique (Expert riding tips: This month, how to relax); Hard Numbers
Issue: August 2001
Condition: Very Good