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Contents: Tests – Cagiva 650 Alazzurra vs. Kawasaki 600 Ninja (The Japanese and Italian sportbike philsophies have never been farther apart – or closer together); Kawasaki KX500 (Kawasaki comes off the line with its first truly Open-class motocrosser); Suzuki GS700ES (A machine running on all four despite its bad timing); Yamaha BW200 (Yamaha plays to a new audience, and it’s a sellout) Features – The Duke Lives On (A tracing of Cagiva’s three family trees); One Lap Of Earth (50,000-mile honeymoon); Wrong Is Right (There’s a wrong way and a right way. BMW does it both ways); Beemers Over Baja (Tackling, surviving and beating Baja from the seat of a of a boxer Twin); Berserk On The Beach (The British do things differently. And the Enduro du Super Mare is different even by British standards) Technical – Changing The Rules (Suzuki and the GSX-R set out to bring motorcycling into the light) Evaluations – Answer Series III Grips (A hands-on test); Epoxy Steel Magic (Five-minute fix-anything kit) Departments – Editorial (Give a damn. Make a difference); Letters (Does a Vulcan really clingon the road?); Summary (Performance index); New Ideas (And old ideas with a new twist); Roundup (Scooterwars); Race Watch (Supercross – the battle for custody); Service (Answers while you wait); Slipstream (Ted makes it big in the newspaper business)
Issue: March 1985
Condition: Very Good