Classic Bike

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.

CONTRIBUTORS IN THIS ISSUE

Welcome

Hilly behaviour on a great day out • Brooklands Motorcycle Day provided a bit of everything for spectators and fans of British classics – displays, demonstrations, stalls you name it...

East’s museum at auction • The 80 bikes from of an Isle of Man institution are to be sold at the Stafford show in October

What’s new?

NEXT MONTH IN

British Grand Prix, Donington Park

Time for the pilgrimage • Everyone should see racing on the Isle of Man, but the Manx GP at the end of August offers a less frantic experience than the TT. CB editor Hugo Wilson is gearing up for his visit...

More dates for August • Our choice of alternatives, if you can’t get to the Isle of Man

Hogging the limelight

Show us yours • Classic Bike readers share news of recent acquisitions, regular rides and progress of ongoing projects

In the wheel tracks of legends • The Classic Bike team tries to retrace the route around mid-Wales taken in the 1961 International Six Day Trial – an optimistic attempt to emulate the top dirt riders of the day...

Ducati 900 GTS • Derived from the ugly duckling 860GT, Ducati’s 900GTS is a far cheaper option than the legendary 900SS – but does that make it a bargain?

FAN TASTIC • The campsite at the British Grand Prix is a sensible affair these days, but in the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s it was utter mayhem. We get first-hand accounts from some of the reprobates responsible for the carnage

From this... ...to this • Launched in 1972, the Yamaha TX500 was a hefty street bike. So how do you turn one into a Manx Grand Prix winner?

Peter Boast • He was Britain’s most versatile racer for almost three decades, winning on roads, short circuits, speedway and flat track. We grab a sandwich with the unstoppable Pete Boast

PETE BOAST

Rapide recovery • David Lancaster’s Vincent documentary film Speed isExpensivewasinspired by his parents’ European trips on a Series B Rapide in the late ’50s. Over 50 years later, he tracked down his dad’s old bike and bought it...

Anyone for Trifield? • Rick avoids an ‘error stack’ by gritting his teeth and getting stuck into this special

Imperial Fixes

At the workbench • This month’s workshop activity has involved our technical editor attending to the tightness of tube nuts and not losing the thread...

Metric Fixes

At the workbench • This month, Alan has been making adhesive notes to himself, as well as poking around electrics with his favourite probe

The shape of things to come • During a return visit to Harris Performance, Alan hoped to discover whether his butchered frame was really as bad as he thought it was. Have a guess…

How to... Overhaul cartridge forks • Al Seeley shows you how he sorted the Triumph forks he’s fitting to his Harris

Side by Martinsyde • Rick rolls out his 1921 Martinsyde V-twin and partner Judy revs up her 1928 Scott two-stroke to take on the hillclimb at...