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Don’t know your naked sixes from your café racers? Here’s the full bikes lowdown.
Choose your bike type from the dropdown menu.
BIKE TYPE: LEARNERS
The smallest class of full-sized geared
motorcycle. Most use two-stroke engines – simple but powerful for their size, and running on a mixture of petrol and oil – but four-strokes are taking over. You fill the two reservoirs
separately, and they are mixed to the correct ratio before being sucked into the cylinder. The oil plays no part in the combustion process, but is there to lubricate the cylinder. This is what produces the trademark white smoke...
There are also manual-geared 50cc two-strokes (companies such as Rieju and Aprilia offer sports and trail-style 50s) and a number of interesting 125s – including
small-engined replicas of larger off-roaders, cruisers, sports bikes and trails. Many of the recent firms to launch in the UK specialise in quirky, learner-powered alternatives.
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