Classic Motorcycle Mechanics

Dedicated to the later classics and Japanese machines, Classic Motorcycle Mechanics has it all. Now 116 pages of road tests, rebuild guides, 'Street Specials' reviews and much much more... Staff Bikes - Classic Motorcycle Mechanics is the only magazine that "Buys its own bikes, rebuilds 'em and rides 'em".

Classic Motorcycle Mechanics

The retrospection and nostalgia loop…

Playing the Joker

The latest riding kit, top tools, tyres, retro clothing and more!

Harris Performance leaves Hertford

DIARY DATES

SCOOPERMAN! • The sunny side of the classic world, with the VJMC’s Steve Cooper

Bike theft hot-spots revealed

Garry Taylor 1949-2024

Carole Nash backs Stafford!

New CRMC website!

FEEDBACK • Post to Mechanics, PO Box 99, Horncastle, Lincs LN9 6LZ or email your pictures to editorial@classicmechanics.com

SHOW US YOURS

The way we were…

Heart’s desire! • It’s funny how some bikes just seem to grab you. So it was with this very saucy special that CMM reader Ramsay Chatila got to work on when recovering from major heart surgery.

Millennium missile! • For the 2000 model year, Honda gave their best selling CBR900RR FireBlade a massive overhaul, but was it anywhere near as good as Yamaha’s class-leading YZF-R1?

Bert’s Blade…

This very FireBlade…

SIX APPEAL! • The weather’s good, the roads are clear and he’s got TWO saucy Kawasaki two-stroke triples to play on… Steve Cooper is in heaven!

Kawasaki 250cc Triple Genealogy…

Owners’ stories: Laurence Kelly and Andrew Samways

KAWASAKI GPZ750 TURBO • The best of a frankly strange bunch of ‘turbo’ bikes of the 1980s, surely it’s time for something similar from the Big K?

Balancing act! • Ralph Ferrand works with tools all day long – he sells them too at bikerstoolbox.co.uk so he knows what works.

BMW R100 S

Q&A • Our very own wizened sages, Messrs Mark Haycock and Steve Cooper, are here to answer all of your woes, be they mechanical or spiritual. Every month we will be giving advice, as well as some general tips. Don’t forget to send in your own tips, too.

Out of puff! • Our Mark saddles up the ST and finds it somewhat out of breath – even for a 70cc machine. What to do? Dive in…

Pickled pink! • Nope, not tickled pink… Pickled. Our Scoop only goes ‘make do and mend’ crazy. Thanks Aldi…

New Old Stock, Pattern or Self-sufficiency

THE CLASSIC COMPETITION COMPANY

Special K! • He’s made the stocker, so it’s now time for the special – Un-Wreck it Ralph gets to work…

BAY-watch* • Kev Raymond keeps his eye on the choppy waters of the classic world to see if any projects, donors and bargains are out there worthy of being dragged out of the surf for some mouth-to-mouth…

MAYBE NOT… Move along, nothing to see…

SUZUKI GT 750 1972/73 • Those early Kettles have a real style about them and are perhaps the purest of the breed.

What to buy and how much to pay

Sack Truck • In a bid to rebuild a bit of his/his mate’s history, our Pip goes and buys a knackered old Triumph, supplied in bits, in a sack truck… Oh dear.

SHOW US YER SHED! • We want to see YOUR shed, your workshop, your garage space, your man/person cave – call it what you will! We want to know what you love and loathe about the space you have to fettle and – each month – we have a £50 Machine Mart voucher to give to you if you’re selected! Contact us at: bsimmonds@mortons.co.uk. Don’t forget the pictures!

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Power broker! • After having worked so hard to get on the grid for Donington Park, Rob heads home to Cadwell and falls foul of the regulations! Oops!

Bolt from the blue...