Classic Bike helps and inspires enthusiasts to get more from their passion for classic motorcycles. The magazine shares their fascination with motorcycling’s heroic past while also helping them buy, fix and improve the bikes in their shed. Our main areas of content are: - Inspirational and entertaining reads that celebrate the glory of motorcycling, from riding stories that put the reader in the seat of history’s greatest bikes to incredible racing tales - Restoration stories and instructional features that inspire and help people get their tools out and sort out their old bike - In-depth technical features from the most expert and authoritative writers in motorcycling If you share our passion about classic motorcycles from the last century, you'll enjoy reading Classic Bike.
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Letters • Classic Bike, Media House, Peterborough Business Park, Lynch Wood, Peterborough, Cambs, PE2 6EA
Getting a fix on Rick
MAGAZINE NEEDS YOU… • Have you just bought a new project? Or have you finished a project, taken part in an event or just been for a ride? Do you have pictures of you or your friends from your biking past? Or can you identify the riders or a face in the crowd from the Startline image on page four? Please write and tell us
Raw, rare, ready to go • The idea of roaring through the summer on a Royal Enfield Fury has to be a tantalising prospect for anyone. Try telling us this road-legal competition lovely isn’t a bit tempting…
‘If I had £10,000…’ • Donnie McLeod was a British 250 champion, a GP podium finisher, and now rides classic trials on a pre-65 BSA Bantam. He blows our mythical £10k
12 bikes you can buy • Exotic new-wave collectibles, a race bike with impeccable credentials and classics from the ’50s to the ’90s. Everything you need to enjoy summer is here
BSA Gold Star • There’s never been a better time than right now to buy a Goldie. Jon Luke, vice chairman and technical officer of the Gold Star Owners Club, explains why
12 bikes that sold • Is the price right? Gez Kane scours the last month’s auctions and private sales to find out where the classic market’s really at right now
Kawasaki Zephyr • One of the first ‘heritage’ models, Kwak’s Zephyrs were a definite hit. But while the 750 and 1100 are the go-to bikes, we’d hunt a good 550. Here’s why…
Kawasaki’s shock WSB winner for sale • This GPX750 took Kawasaki’s first ever World Superbike win in 1988. And you can buy it…
In brief
On Any Sunday star Mert Lawwill dies • Fabulous racer, engineering innovator… Lawwill had it all
Modern Black Shadow
Bike Shed Moto Show • From comparatively humble beginnings back in 2013, the annual gathering of custom bikes in London has become a go-to event. We went for a good nose around
Diary dates…
Rescued, revived & ridden • The classic bikes that you have found, restored or just taken for a ride
In your August issue of CB
Classic Bike
The bike that started it all • In the late 1970s, BMW asked Laverda to create an off-roader around their boxer engine. The result influenced the R80 G/S – and now John Tracey has recreated this long-forgotten prototype
Paul Denning • At 17 he was working in his dad’s motorcycle shop and by 37 he was running Suzuki’s factory MotoGP team. How the hell did that happen?
Honda XBR500 • This Japanese single was heralded as the new BSA Gold Star in 1985. Was it true, or an unjustified claim that masked its real appeal?
Honda’s thumpers
Style and substance • A magnetic mix of Italian character and everyday useability, the rumbling Ducati 900SS is the overlooked gem of modern classics
Which to buy, what to pay…
Fast, loud and sideways •...