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‘What’s the use of a bike with no wheels!’
■ Fairy tale
Life and love with a Trident T150 • Normally, CBG brings you guides to a make and model of bike – but occasionally, an owner’s story is as good a guide to a model as you can get!
Classic news
We've been to Adventure Bike Rider Festival • We sent keen off-road rider Andrew Freeman to experience this exciting festival. Think it’s not classic bike-friendly just because there’s no autojumble? Think again – our bikes were designed for this! Andrew looks at the good, the bad and the dirty…
We've been to Your local club needs you! • Support your small bikes shows as well as the big fancy ones! Our local BRIMBO club show may not have the glitz and glamour of the Adventure Bike Festival, but it does have lovely people, superb bikes and great cakes…
Triumph T120 Bonneville unit construction • The T120 lasted for decades, and the 1960s unit construction Bonneville is the epitome of the classic bike. Are they as good to own as they are to look at?
Anything to say? • Email || editor@classicbikeguide.com Write to || Classic Bike Guide, PO Box 99, Horncastle, Lincolnshire LN9 6LZ
Fancy a day out? • There seems to be plenty of opportunities to break out your best set of wheels and give them an airing this August. There are packed schedules, and we could have filled three times the space with nothing but bike nights. Keep the shiny side up! Don’t forget, we want to hear about your events, so do let us know what you have planned.
Royal Enfield Interceptor Series 2 • Go! Interceptor! No good comes from inviting Frank Westworth to ride fine examples of his favourite bikes, yet a very nice man loaned him a Royal Enfield Interceptor. A Series 2 Interceptor. The best…
The Conundrum • Meet a one-off bike that has survived more near-misses, more owners and more engines than any other!
Baby Commando What might have been – the Norton P92 500cc prototype • With the British bike industry on the ropes, there was hope in a new prototype that could give the Japanese bikes a real battle. Politics got in the way, but what was the P92 actually like?
Shetland here we come! • The Tortoise and the Hare go north in search for eternal enlightenment and the Shetland Classic Show, the long way, with no sat nav, and ancient bikes…
Old bike mechanics directory • Your guide to those who are willing to help us
Building myself an American Triumph • Photographing some of Scotland’s finest classic Triumphs takes its toll – you end up wanting one yourself! So, into the workshop goes a ‘Bonneville lookalike,’ and hopefully for owner Stuart Urquhart, out comes an American-style Trophy. How does he get on?
The day after the night before • Oli stops feeling sorry for himself after his unfortunate 20mph spill and turns to repairing the Triumph
‘I’ve bought a bike with no wheels!’ • Matt’s bought a bike with no front end, or back wheel, to help finish his race-to-road bike conversion – and it’s turned out to be a lot more work than planned…
Frank’s Famous Last Words • On fools rushing in: no angels involved…