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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Letters

Breaking the memory banks

MAGAZINE NEEDS YOU… • Have you just bought a new project? Or have you finished a project, taken part in an event or just been for a ride? Do you have pictures of you or your friends from your biking past? Or can you identify the riders or a face in the crowd from the Startline image on page four? Please write and tell us

Chest hair not included • The first-generation Suzuki GSX-R750 was light, powerful, fast, and did wonders for your street cool. Little would give you a sporty ’80s fix like this standard low-mile example

‘If I had £10,000…’ • The man who spawned Bike magazine in 1971, Mark Williams’ colourful life has been full of many varied two-wheelers. He tells us how he’d blow ten big ones…

12 bikes you can buy • Two-wheeled temptation comes in myriad forms. Gez Kane guides you through this month’s enticing crop of desirable classic motorcycles

Honda CBX1000Z • Paul Bennetts is the Stafford Show organiser and Midlands area rep for the CBX Riders Club UK. He’s owned countless sixes over the years – and still loves the thrill of riding Honda’s engineering masterpiece

12 bikes that sold • It’s a buyers’ market at the moment, as these sale prices from the last month reveal. Gerard Kane assembles an assortment of tasty machines for a variety of budgets

Grey import 400s • Revvy, engaging and with a hint of the exotic, late ’80s and early ’90s home-market Japanese 400 sports bikes are still an utter hoot to ride

Return of the Bantam • New 334cc four-stroke single from BSA channels the original’s value-for-money ethos

What’s new

Resto RC30 on the pace • Honda that raced in the 1991 Bol d’Or still the best in class

Privateer hero in print

CRMC Classic Festival • Lap records were well and truly shattered at the recent meeting at Donington Park. CB was there to see the sights, hear the sounds and inhale the whiff of Castrol R

Diary dates…

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

In October’s Classic Bike

Classic Bike

RIGHT PLACE RIGHT TIME • It may have taken a decade to restore, but Paul Hawksworth’s Honda VFR750F is a tale of fortuitous finds, good mates and minimal expenditure…

Paul’s essential tools

John Reynolds • The three-time British Superbike champ tells us doing the TT once was enough and reveals the ideal honeymoon location

JOHN REYNOLDS • Winning from the age of eight

Temptation in action • The Norton Commando has a strong claim to being the ultimate Brit twin – and with prices as they are right now, it really is time to buy an icon

Extreme smoking • We unearthed these ingenious and outlandish two-stroke creations in the CB archives. Any idea where they are now?

1965 MZ ES175/1 • Rick takes a buzz on an Eastern Bloc two-stroke known for its quality, reliability – and for quirks that go beyond its individual...