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.

A little piece of two-wheel Heaven

Rocket from the past

REBUILDING A Brough Superior • Jake Robbins, of Vintage Engineering, was given the task of rebuilding a Brough Superior SS100 Alpine Grand Sports. Here he reveals the thoughts, tasks and processes of the job. Is it any different to any other rebuild?

Classic news

The Bristol Classic Motorcycle Show • Sean Carr and Oli Hulme give their personal accounts of a weekend at the Bristol Classic Motorcycle Show, which is actually in Shepton Mallet…

Ducati 916 • When Classic Bike Guide was launched in 1991, the BSA Rocket Gold Star was 29 years old. In 2024, the Ducati 916 and its sister, the 748, are 30 years old. Welcome to one of the most beautiful motorcycles ever built...

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Old bike mechanics directory • It is slowly getting bigger thank you!

Frank Westworth looks back at: The Triumph TR5 Trophy • The Trophy generator – when a competition bike was allowed to be made, it was really rather good

Grabbing a cuppa with Guy Martin • Stuart Barker sits down and talks classics with that famous Lincolnshire racer from the TV

Laverda 500 Montjuic racer • Laverda turned the Alpino 500 into the Montjuic road-legal racer. Then Maurice Ogier transformed that into a privateer racer that turned out so well its rivals nicknamed it ‘That Bloody Laverda’! We look into the secrets that made a Laverda twin go fast

Welcome to Classic Bike Guide : Japanese Bike Guide 2024

Breathe life into the museum! • The National Motorcycle Museum bought this prototype BSA X-75 Hurricane last year. But it likes its bikes to run, so it asked Classic Bike Guide to recommission it! What’s involved?

Clutching at Spares • Hutch puts a Royal Enfield primary side back together and wonders if any of the many later Bullet parts he’s got will fit…

It’s okay • Many have felt this way, few talk about it, and fewer still put it in writing. Steve speaks for many of us out there

Frank’s Famous Last Words • Our Frank finds the best way to finish a project? Simple. Don’t start it in the first place…