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A motorcyclist student from a university in London somehow gets sent back in time. I can't remember how but I don't think he works out he's gone back in time for a while. He falls in love with a girl from this time and I think there's some plague involved!
I read this as a teenager in the 80s and it was definitely YA. Would love to read it again but no idea about the title. Maybe written by a woman?

Sounds very much like The Devil on the Road by Robert Westall - the hero is a young man (don't remember his name) who has a bike that he's very proud of which he calls the Cub. It mysteriously breaks down and a local man offers him shelter for the night in his barn. He finds a kitten in the barn, that he later adopts and calls News, which is a time travelling cat who takes him back to (I think) Cromwell's time. He falls in love with a girl called Joanna Vavasour from the past, but realizes that she uses witchcraft to tempt young men from the present back into the past. He doesn't so much fall out of love with her as realize that he is in a dangerous situation.

The story flips between past and present; it's well written and has pretty complex emotions for a YA book.

I don't know what book it is that you're looking for. However, if you liked that one, you would probably love Doomsday Book by Connie Willis. It's about a female historian who travels back to medieval England to see what the plague was really like.

The Robert Westall one is it - Brilliant! Thanks so much, now I'm going to buy it off Amazon....

We had to read this book in the 3rd or 4th year (Yr 9 or Yr10 in new money) with a charismatic teacher called Mr Sullivan in Bishop Challoner High, Birkenhead back in 1984/85. ‘Archie� Sullivan was about 6ft 5inch, with a stoop which, so the story he acquired as a result of being a Japanese ex-POW. Despite his age and frailty he was one of the most feared (respected/liked?) teachers because he was so different then the wet, liberal and pretentious ones!!
He organised the class and desks like 'huts' in POW camp. Each table had 4 people who all had 'jobs', such as collecting the books in and given the out. Some of the lads had extra jobs like looking after a section of the library. You would get a point for positive stuff like reading well, having a clean desk etc . I can recall that he had a table/desk 'out on its own' as he would often refer to, which he would send you for misbehaving. Looking back it was like a kind of cooler, I kid you not. On that table/desk, which he referred to as ‘Table 9�, (each hut, sorry table having their own number) you couldn’t interact with the class. You just had to listen to the others reading the book because you were not allowed one. However if your behaviour improved he would eventually return you to your seat and a new pupil would be sent there. Looking back he also get us to read Colditzs as well!!
Any way the point of the comment is that Robert Westall who wrote ‘Devil on the Road� also wrote ‘The Machine Gunners� about a German POW. I’m guessing that for this reason he started getting us to read ‘Devil on the Road� (I’m assuming he found something relevant in the story of these working class ‘scruffs� capturing a POW and the bond that linked them) but ‘Devil on the Road� was so uninteresting to use 13/14yr olds that he actually scrapped it half way through!!
To this day I always recall the book but for the life of me don’t know what happened in the end!!! As for ‘Archie� when we joined up with Marion High for Girls in 1987 he was pensioned off. Old solders never die thou.........!!!!