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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Contributors in this issue

Revving up to controversy

Classic Bike

MAGAZINE NEEDS YOU…

A 100mph antique with no brakes • Feeling flush? Surely this record breaking 1919 Indian is just what you need to look at on a winter’s night and entertain you on a summer’s afternoon

‘If I had £10,000…’ • We asked TT winner, Velocette owner, pre-65 trials stalwart and Yorkshire legend Mick Grant how he’d go about spending an imaginary ten grand

12 bikes you can buy • Gez Kane is always on the lookout for the tastiest bikes for sale. Here’s what he’s spotted for sale this month – there must be something below to tempt you…

Norton Commando • The best Brit twin ever? Paul Smith, serial Commando owner and Norton Owners Club director, certainly thinks so. Here are his tips for buyers

The chosen ones • Auction prices, live and online, provide a genuine guide to values. Gez Kane watched these bikes sell last month.

Japanese trail bikes • Trail bikes seem to be in demand, but what are they actually worth? Here’s 20 bikes that changed hands in the past three months, and what they sold for.

Hail the Hayabusa! • Suzuki will celebrate 25 years of the Busa at next month’s NEC Show

Bigger than the Giro

What’s new

Kawasaki retro

Snake Pass threat

Going for it on a grand scale • There are two ways to end up in the drink at this uplifting Devon event – go over the edge or finish the course and end up in the pub. Greg Moss spotted these cool classics

Dates for November

The 5000 Curvas • Mark Holmes ticks a box on his bucket list by finishing a 500km endurance test through Spanish mountains – all in a day’s work on the Piston Rally at the end of September

Three things

Rescued, revived & ridden • The classic bikes that you have found, restored or just taken for a ride

In the December issue

HARD YARDS • The path to restoring this RD350LC to pristine condition was a long and difficult road – but Lee Marris persevered to get the parts to finish the job

Lee’s essential tools

AT LUNCH WITH… FREDDIE SPENCER • Arguably the most naturally gifted GP rider of all time, Freddie Spencer won both the 250 and 500 titles in the same year – difficult, but not as difficult as interviewing him…

FREDDIE SPENCER • From prodigy to racing genius

Egli-Vincent • Norvins reignited interest in Vincent in the ’50s, before Egli did the same in the ’60s. As the owner of one of the former, Rick’s well placed to judge the latter…

BUILDING ONE TODAY

A life in the dirt • Jack Burnicle has been photographing and writing about motocross for nearly 60 years. Here are some of his favourite shots

Turning point • Forget the 916, Gez Kane explains why the 851 and 888 are the crucial Ducatis to own

Going native • Restoring an Enfield Bullet while living in India would be a doddle, surely? It didn’t quite work out...