Classic Bike Guide

Classic Bike Guide is a down to earth, practical - and sometimes irreverent - magazine that gets right to the heart of the classic bike world. With a mixture of features, tests, reviews and event reports it is the title that has become a must for the active rider and restorer. Classic Bike Guide magazine - with the biggest and best readers adverts - FREE! Enjoy the digital edition - and save over 50% on the print susbcription price.

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‘Tis the season

The Donington-era Norton Commando 961 • When was a Norton Commando not a Norton Commando? When it was a ‘new’ one. Back in 2010, Frank Westworth began a personal relationship with a reincarnated old friend. A doomed relationship if there ever was…

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Bullet back with a bang

We've been to Ace Classics dirty weekend • The Ace Classics annual meet-up in deepest Kent for friends, family and customers was blessed with great weather – a rarity for this year. With two consecutive dry days, as much fun was needed to be had as possible!

Suzuki GT750 • It was exciting times, with some companies evolving old ideas and others trying completely new ways of finding the future of biking. Suzuki brought out its water-cooled, two-stroke touring machine – the GT750

Anything to say?

BELL CUSTOM 500 RSD SPECIAL EDITION

Fancy a day out?

Andy’s two-wheeled journey • Guest columnist Andy Barratt asks and answers that all-too-common of questions – why old motorcycles?

Oli’s t’pence • Oli joins Andy in asking: motorbikes – why, exactly?

BSA STARFIRE 250 • BSA B25 was a 247cc, unit single-cylinder bike, produced between 1967 and 1972. An evolution of the C15, and with roots harking back to the Triumph Tiger Cub, it held the British flag for the growing teenage market. And it can give a lot of fun today, too

BMW R90S TT Production racer • This BMW started life as an R75/5 and evolved over years into the R90S Proddie racer that ‘won’ at the TT. It helped turn a monotonous manufacturer into something cool – and it isn’t a huge racing department’s creation, but that of one rather determined man, Helmut Dähne

Helmut Dähne • THE DO-IT-ALL RACER

Harley-Davidson XR1200 2008-2013 • Harley folks didn’t like the XR because it was a sportsbike, while sportsbike riders didn’t by Harleys. But their loss could now be your gain if you fancy a grunty, naked piece of history with attitude

Electric start kit for kick-start Norton Commando models • Norton specialist Norvil has taken pity on Commando owners’ right legs with an electric start kit

Specialists who help us: Hard chrome plating • CBG goes behind the scenes to see how telescopic fork tubes get renewed

A lack of Jubilee spark • Summer sun is no good if you’ve lost your spark. Hutch helps a Bonnie...

Shock and awe • Oli gets his garage in order, then goes to help a friend unseize his Kawasaki – with a jack?

Frank’s Famous Last Words • Who was it who announced that there can be only one? Someone else out there will announce they were almost certainly incorrect…

It’s a beautiful day… • Welcome… to the ONLY place to be for bikers of all eras.