SPECIAL FEATURES

16 Suzuki RG500 Gamma

The world-spec Gamma is one wild ride.

29 The Blitz Of ’86

The view from Westlake Village: On a clear day you can see...

30 Japan File: Yamaha

Radians and Fazers—and things that go fast in the night!

40 Japan File: Suzuki

The alloy-framed GSX-R750 is only the curtain raiser.

42 Japan File: Kawasaki

What act can top a 158-mph Ninja ? Or even follow it?

44 U.S.A. File: Harley-Davidson

Here’s the alphabet as written in Milwaukee, sonny.

50 Euro File: BMW K75

Four minus one equals three. Germany’s worst-kept secret

since Marlene Dietrich.

53 Euro File: Atlantic Roundup

Watch as we bring in the usual suspects.

SHORTS

26 Honda CR125

More power in a little red buzz saw.

78 Yamaha RZ350C

A clean-air model for life after sawed-off T-shirts.

FEATURES

- 56 Product Evaluation: Aerostich

f Roadcrafter Riding Suit

Everything you ever wanted, but be prepared to pay.

59 Duck In The Dirt: Cagiva’s 650 Elefant

Getting your animals right. Ducks out, Elefant in.

, By Bruno de Prato

r 60 North African Elefant

.£ .. The desmodromic route to Casablanca^ By Bruno de Prato

64 When Only The Best Will Do

Sporting Rubber Comparo: No simple answers, only

L fascinating ones. By Daniel Coe

? 67 Radial Revolution, Round Two

Dunlop K700 radial.

81 Rembrandt And The Friday-Night Fliers

When men were as hard as a blue groove.

By Bill Guy

85 Project America

Cagiva’s Alazzurra learns to dance Texas-style.

By Kevin Brunson

DEPARTMENTS

4 Editorial/Ouf For A Sunday Ride/Phil Schilling

8 T DC/Flashcard Thinking/Kevin Cameron

24 Letters/Trashed