Hoad Tests

34 Yamaha 550 Vision

The engine that made a motorcycle

49 BMWR100RS

Cheating the wind, in style and comfort

78 Husqvarna 430 CR

Good evidence that twin-shockers aren 't dead yet

139 Suzuki RM250Z

The strongest, most powerful 250 motocrosser we've tested.

Features

53 The Smaller Sport: BMW R65LS

The price comes down; the cosmetics light up.

58 MB5 Pilgrimage: A Long Way On Not Much

You don't ride 50ccs, you drink it. Or do you? By Buzz Buzzelli

69 On A Clear Day You Can See Milwaukee

The Freedom Train arrives in Milwaukee By Buzz Buzzelli

90 GPz550 Update

The Lost is Found: Horsepower.

94 Product Evaluation: Pola Pulse

A light for troubled times.

130 Product Evaluation: Hot Grips

Why sit by the heater when you can take it with you?

150 Product Evaluation: See-Me Vests

You'll look great in Blazing Orange.

177 Off Center On The Salt

Those wonderful things weren 't mirages. By Dorde Woodruff

179 Bull’s-eye

Rocket Man wrapped in the Union Jack By Dorde Woodruff

199 Peruvian Sand

To the sand dunes of Peru by way of Germany.

Special Features

119 Blood, Bikes and Alcohol

Drunken Editors on parade. for science. By Ken Lee

120 The Wobblers Report

Me? I’m not drunk I'm not a drunk either!

126 Alky Mainline

The bio-mechanics of getting blasted. By Ken Lee

Technical

163 Code For Six: RC-166

When Honda owned the Grand Prix World. By Kevin Cameron

169 Close Up

Touch this bike and history comes alive By Kevin Cameron

Departments

8 Editorial / Drunk With Anger Phil Schilling

10 Letters / Nowhere Man

14 The Duct Tapes / Meet Aaaaaah Ed Hertfelder

1 7 TDC / Hobble That Wobble Kevin Cameron

23 Checkers ; American Motocross 82 Mark Homchick

24 Pipeline A Man And His Hobby Jim Greening

208 Bits Killer Auto Ken Lee