SF206

Subscribers with efficient postmen will have received their copy this morning, but the rest of you will have to wait until it hits the newsagents' shelves next week. Unless, of course, you happen to be going to the London International Custom Show at Alexandra Palace this weekend, as we'll have copies on sale on the Streetfighters stand.

Aside from Marie's marvellous Martek, the new issue contains features on Frank's fantastic 7/12, a tremendous Taylornmade VMAX, Magpie's magical ZXR, a brilliant black Fazer, a perfectly painted Polish Gixer, and, err, lots more too...

No, It's Not Australian...

The Nembo is, in fact, an Italian creation and, as you'll see if you scrutinise the pics, designed around an engine that is, in the covnetional sense, upside down.
The reasoning is that the crankcases atre the strongest part of the engine assembly so, when using the engine as a stressed member of the chassis, the assembled bike is stronger of the engine is mounted thus.
Although we think that the Nembo engineers have been on the grappa as, after all, this cofiguration will make for a top heavy bike that requires additional oil pumps and will be a bugger to check the valve clearances on...

Project If Only...

You may remember the Project If Only SV650 that Yantosh was building last year? Well, Yan finished the wee beastie although, due to general editorial lethargy, we've not actually managed to get it photographed yet.
To prove that it was finished, and that it lives, here's a video...