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

Storm brews over barn finds

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

Right size, right colour • Kawasaki’s larger two-stroke triples have a mighty reputation and generate much lust, but for summer back-lane frolics we’d want to be perched on this 1977 KH400

‘If I had £10,000…’ • Andy Tiernan, longtime vendor of all manner of classics from his premises in Suffolk (since 1972), tells what he’d do if he had our imaginary wedge to spend…

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

Velocette LE • LE Velo Owners Club historian Dennis Frost has nurtured a passion for the quirky lightweight flat-twins for over 50 years. Here’s his advice about them

12 bikes that sold • There really is something for everyone in the classic bike market at the moment, even forseasonedmarketwatcher Gez Kane, as you’ll discover below.

Sports mopeds • They were the first taste of freedom for a generation. What price reliving your glory days on a 50mph 50?

Another win for 916? • The highlight of August’s Classic TT is almost certain to be the F1 race. And this Ducati 916, run by Key Racing, will be very hard to beat…

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WWII Vincent for sale • Period photo sheds light on Rapide’s fascinating history

Tiddlers’ 1200-mile run

Dragstalgia • June’s scorching weather tested machines and riders at Santa Pod’s drag meeting, but couldn’t stop some great motorcycles and racing. Photographer Keith Lee was there

Diary dates…

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

In September’s CB

Classic Bike

100‚000 NOT OUT • Bought on a whim, Keith Prentice’s Laverda Jota has been part of his life for 42 years. After 100,000 miles together, it’s a bond that’s too strong to break

Ian Tay • He co-founded Mocheck, which rose to become one of Britain’s biggest, most innovative dealers of the 1980s. And then it went pop…

1961 Velocette Venom • Velo’s single was a record-breaker and beautifully made, but also pricey. Could a dip in values tempt Rick into finally living the dream?

A swift look at Velo’s timeline

Working class hero • Honda’s CX500 became the despatch riders’ go-to machine in the courier industry boom - and it can still deliver the goods today

The Breakers • In the days before eBay we relied on grubby bike breakers for bits to keep our bikes alive. These photographs were used in Performance Bikes magazine in the mid-1980s, but where are these people now?

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