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.

‘Leave that heating alone – just put another jumper on’

■ The phone call, the immortal circuit and a new boy on the block

The tricky second album • After Ducati won at Imola in 1972 on a production bike, a factory racer was made for 1973. Alan Cathcart rides the F750

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Haynes Museum

National Motorcycle Museum LIVE open weekend • Another successful weekend at the museum

Stafford Show What you thought • If Stafford is about anything apart from the amazing motorcycles, it’s the people and what they are there for. Everybody has a story about why they are keen on classic bikes, so we asked a few visitors why they were there...

Products

Triumph T100C • Multi-tool! Triumph’s remarkably capable Tiger, trimmed for road and track

Aermacchi Harley-Davidson 350 Sprint • American style, Italian build quality – the Aermacchi chapter of Harley-Davidson was an interesting one, laced with takeovers and mistakes, but leaving with us some great bikes

Anything to say?

Fancy a day out? • We hope you have darned your sea-boot socks, washed your thermals, dubbined your boots and wired in your heated grips (those with transverse twins, just use your cylinder heads). The next few months are all about club meets, Christmas toy runs and the odd jumble.

LED there be light! • Are LED bulbs a good idea for our classics? We look into the light and see if it’s worth it for you

Yamaha XTZ750 Ténéré • Yamaha created a parallel twin adventure bike decades before the current trend

Don’t fancy a Ténéré? How about one of these? • Just three of many possibilities to match the Yamaha XTZ750, we look at alternatives...

Welcome to classic Bike Guide's British Bike Guide 2023

British need-to-know! You may find these terms useful • For the uninitiated, the world of the British classic motorcycles contains many terms; some obvious, some arcane, and lots get misunderstood. In order to make life easier, here is a basic guide to some of the things you might have read about or overheard.

Old bike mechanics directory • This is our first attempt at a directory of mechanics and engineers who are happy to work on your older bikes, bikes with points and carburettors, to help you keep on the road...

The archaeology of a bike 1946 Velocette MAC

A reader’s tale – so far • Magazines have much to be blamed for; starting winter projects may be one

How to start a motorcycle • Old bikes have individual ways in how they like being started. But if you understand the basics, it can make it a lot easier

Wish upon a star • After BSA, luck, and the world working against Oli’s Starfire to work again, he finds success!

Goodnight lightweight, see you in the springtime • Hutch goes through his routine for tucking his touring Triumph away for the winter months

Frank’s Famous Last Words • Lost in space. Or lost in time. Or simply lost. How do important things simply and suddenly vanish? Frank is bewildered (again)…