Classic Bike Guide

Classic Bike Guide is a down to earth, practical - and sometimes irreverent - magazine that gets right to the heart of the classic bike world. With a mixture of features, tests, reviews and event reports it is the title that has become a must for the active rider and restorer. Classic Bike Guide magazine - with the biggest and best readers adverts - FREE! Enjoy the digital edition - and save over 50% on the print susbcription price.

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■ Record breakers at Arpajon, August 1930

Frank Westworth looks back at: BSA Rocket 3 • Flying in a Blue Dream. Rayguns? Dan Dare styling? Not everyone loved BSA’s early Rocket 3

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A small Triumph! • The new Triumph Speed 400 and Scrambler 400 X are announced to the world and we see what they are like – if looks are anything to go by, they should be fantastic...

Paradise regained

We've been to Bacon and Brakes at The Rhynd • Stuart Urquhart visits The Rhynd Café, on the east coast of Scotland, with the River Tay to the north, River Eden to the south, and the North Sea to the east

We've been to Prescott Bike Festival • Oli has a hoot at the Severn Freewheelers Bike Fest, all for a great cause

We've been to Weekender! • Destination bike dealer Krazy Horse follow its evening parties up with The Weekender festival, so we had to go along to see, didn’t we…

Laverda Jota • We take a look at the Italian muscle-bike and its rivals from a time when size mattered

1970s muscle rivals • Like meatheads in the gym, these big brutes were all squabbling with the Jota over the mirror, writes Oli

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Matt’s mardle • Always remember that we are the few, so lucky to have found the magic of just riding an old motorcycle...

Oli’s t’pence • Oli finds the miracle that is the internet may not entirely be the miracle it was meant to be

Fancy a day out? • The only real problem with classic motorcycling through the summer is there simply aren’t enough weekends to play with. There’s an absolute stack of events to go to, with (to use that old cliché) something for everyone. See you in a field or two, somewhere, failing to stop a 99 from dribbling into the dust... and we don’t mean a Norton twin

Living with Royal Enfield Super Meteor 650 From £6,799 • We knew the Royal Enfield 650 twin-cylinder engine would appear in something else soon. It’s decided to come to party wearing its cruiser costume... and we’ve got one for a while to see what living with it is like!

Previous factory customs • Royal Enfield’s Super Meteor is billed as a cruiser – but it’s also part of that curious sub-class of motorcycle, the factory custom. Factory custom is something of an oxymoron, but still they exist

Aermacchi Ala Verde • A race-inspired Italian 250 with as much compromise to comfort, until you get a chance to get off and look back at its beauty

Japanese 250s 1970 to 1976 • When the leaner 250 market really took off...

Workshop quickies • Little tales from the shed

The basics: How best to use a centrestand • Sounds easy, using the centrestand, so why do so many people struggle?

Aermacchi Harley-Davidson 350 Sprint • Oli starts to get to know his Italian mistress…

In the workshop How quickly can we get a project finished? • After years of getting frustrated about how quickly others finish their bikes, Matt decides to race the clock with his latest project

Famous last words • It’s a keeper! Or not. Frank confronts the offer that cannot be refused…