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.

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A slippery end for the dirt track season • The Dirt Track Riders Association’s Vintage races deliver hugely varied grids, with lightweight 1970s two-strokes battling with British four-stroke twins and Evo-class ohc machines in the heats – but each has a class-specific final. This year’s final meeting proved a wet one...

Life on two wheels • A new exhibition at the Haynes Motor Museum in Somerset celebrates motorcycling and its place in British Society

Classic clubs get recognition

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90 Happy birthday Sam

Show us yours • We love to see your acquisitions, regular rides and projects – keep ’em coming to the address on the right...

Milanese source • Looking for a project, a tail light lens for an Italian bike or just weekend entertainment? Milan’s Mostra Scambio is worth a trip. But be prepared to bust your luggage allowance on the way back...

Manx GP: The ups and downs

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PROJECT MASTERCLASS • About to launch into the perilous seas of classic restoration? Fear not, for Captain Parkington is on hand to ensure safe passage

TOP TIPSTERS TELL ALL • Here’s a handful of tips to help you along, from men of experience with many projects under their belts

SPECIAL SQUARE FOUR • This isn’t just any old Squariel – modified by an Ariel connoisseur, it’s been taken to a new level of sophistication. Is this how it should’ve been all along?

THIS PROJECT HAS GONE ON FOREVER • It can be a long road to getting a project just right. After three rebirths, this XT500 finally arrived at its happy place – after being ridden to Australia

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Making history • Royal Enfield wanted an example of their first ever motorcycle for their heritage collection, so they recreated this one. We take a spin on this ambitious project

Steve Linsdell • Ever since he used a 500cc Royal Enfield single to beat dozens of RG500s in the 1981 Manx GP, Steve has been synonymous with defying convention. He takes time off from his latest project to explain himself

BUYING RIDING FETTLING

Making a meal out of fixing • Rick enjoys a two-course feast at his mate’s in Germany – the main was a BBQ, the starter was a bike...

Spacers – the final frontier • His name? Al Seeley. His mission? To boldly go where no man has gone before... well, actually this month he’s making spacers, brackets and mountings for his Project Harris Magnum 2

Bank manager • Rick takes his Martinsyde for a trip on the wild side. A very steeply-banked wild side…

Out of cluck • Hugo’s BSA Bantam build was meant to be a quick summer project. As winter rears up on the horizon, it’s still a work in progress...

Yamaha RD250 vs Suzuki GT250 • Each of these quarter-litre strokers has its own unique appeal – but, on balance, which one would we have?

LOOSE CHANGE • Four bikes we found for sale at less than a grand

DEEP POCKETS 1999 Yamaha YZF-R7...