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Classic Racer takes you so close you can actually smell the Castrol R. With the world's finest archive, and an editorial team who live and breathe the sport, the only way you'll get closer will be to put on your leathers.

Classic Racer

Ahh yes... promo pics... • YEAR: You tell us // LOCATION: Tell us this, too

No quarter asked... • YEAR: 1989 // LOCATION: Circuito Internazionale Santa Monica (today known as the Misano world circuit)

#2 IT'S THE CLASSIC RACER CROSSWORD! • Welcome to the second Classic Racer crossword. Put your racing knowledge to the test and complete the puzzle to be in with a chance of winning an amazing Barry Sheene replica AGV helmet. Good luck.

Don’t forget!

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FLYING HAGGIS REMEMBERED IN STYLE

100TH TT RACES CELEBRATED

BIKERS’ CLASSICS 2019

NEW HOME FOR INTERNATIONAL DIRT BIKE SHOW

OLIVER’S MOUNT TICKETS NOW ON SALE

CRMC AT FORTY

MORE OVER 55S

FUELLING IT

ON DISPLAY

BOLLYWOOD COMES TO THE ISLAND

DAN SAYLE RETURNS

CLASSIC DIRT BIKE SHOW SUCCESS

Hard as nails

CLASSIC RACER ICONIC METAL • Honda’s 1985 VF750F Superbike

HONDA’S 1997 RC45 REINVENTING THE WHEEL • It’s been two decades since the RC45 retired from global competition. It’s worth remembering just how strong a machine the single-sided factory machine was against the other diesels.

What’s it like to ride?

I CREATED A MONSTER! • In one of his most frank interviews ever, Carl Fogarty lifts the lid on what he had to do to become one of Britain’s most successful bike racers ever.

COMPOSIT COMPETITOR THE 1986 SUZUKI HERON TSR • Something of an evolution of the official Suzuki square four it might have been, but the TSR did at least look to new avenues of frame design to keep competitive. The name was bond... Ciba-Geigy bond (a bonding material invented for aircraft construction - Ed) if we’re being precise about what held this race bike together.

Drifting WITH MICK • The finest product of one of Britain’s most established racing dynasties, Mick Boddice was rarely out of the results for over four decades of racing. Arguably he kept his best until last, as he recounted to Pete Crawford at his Kidderminster home.

The generation game

On two wheels

JIM BLOMLEY RACING • This is the first part of a series of new features, shining a light on some of the biggest and best players in the Classic Racing world.

WE FEW, WE HAPPY FEW, WE BAND of BROTHERS... • The Steve Machin Yamaha TR2B special

THE ROAD RACERS THE MAKING OF A CLASSIC • David Wallace’s documentary film about the Armoy Armada is an all-time biking classic. Shot in the summer of 1977, it followed a then unknown Joey Dunlop, together with Mervyn Robinson and Frank Kennedy, as they raced the Irish roads on a shoestring budget. Using pioneering techniques such as on board cameras, The Road Racers has become a cult classic amongst bike racing fans. In a rare and exclusive interview, double BAFTA award-winner director David Wallace takes us behind the scenes of the greatest road racing documentary ever shot.

What’s in a name?

The Road Racers II: A missed opportunity

THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN OF OZ PT2 • What made Bathurst’s Easter races the most important motorcycle destination in Australia? In the second feature of their two-part series, HAMISH COOPER and PHIL AYNSLEY go back to the Eighties to find out.

Mac attack

Twin peaks

Eye candy

Bad Bathurst

Whatever happened to...? BOB ANDERSON • Originally an agricultural engineer from Haynes in Bedfordshire, tall and good-looking and the epitome of the modern gladiator, Bob started racing at Cadwell Park in 1953 on a 500 Triumph Special.