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.

Classic Bike

FEELING SPECIAL

FAB FOUR • Ariel’s sophisticated Square Four turns 90 this year

EVOLUTION OF A CLASSIC

PUTTING ON THE STYLE • This radical reworking of a cult classic Yamaha seems a fair way to save it from being pitched into a life as a static exhibit. Have you guessed what it is yet?

The Best-ever Norton T-shirt? • Got a Norton T-shirt you are proud of? Then tell the Norton Owners Club – they’re aiming to unearth the design that best depicts the Norton motorcycle

Better than nothing • Pandemic panic shrinks the calendar again – but some hardy events are holding on…

Golden State Goldie • Lew Brown struck the mother lode when he unearthed this BSA in California

Racing all-rounder

Beauty AND THE BEST • Blending jaw-dropping aesthetics with top-class engineering, quality components and surgical attention to detail, French outfit Atelier Chatokhine has created a pair of BSA A65s sharp enough to cut it on modern roads

Dr Desmo • Fabio Taglioni is synonymous with desmodromics and Ducati, although he designed over 1000 different engines in his lifetime. On the centenary of his birth, we pay tribute to a career packed with innovation and sporting success

DON’T CALL ME FRANKENSTEIN • This assembly of disparate parts looks like it could have been a vintage rival to a Brough Superior. But the truth about its creation is much more intriguing…

A BIG JOURNEY FOR A LITTLE BIKE • Rob Kyle took his Honda CB77 on a two-up, 12,000-mile European road trip in the early ’70s. Now it’s taken a ride down Restoration Road

Gordon & Sally Russell • This partnership has endured half a century of marriage and racing. They’ve accrued many a tale of track-based antics and become prime movers for one of the most glamorous classic bike races of them all

THE RUSSELLS • Kids & jobs, yes. But mostly racing…

Shaw THING • Powered by a four-cylinder engine from an Austin Seven car, this is one man’s vision of the ultimate motorcycle – the Shaw special

POSSIBLY GO WRONG? • A weekend of off-road bike racing in the grounds of an English country estate with minimal organisation, rules or crowd fencing – that’s the Malle Mile. We survived to tell the tale…

WIN KEIS HEATED MOTORCYCLE CLOTHING • We’ve teamed up with the renowned quality kit makers to give CB readers the chance to win these winter warmers

Inspiration not instruction • If you’re a stickler for correct workshop practice or a health and safety obsessive, look away now…

HOW TO Remove a blind bearing • There are various tricks for removing bearings from blind holes, but magneto bearings defeated me until now. Here’s how I finally got around it

Avoiding the crash

RICK’S TOP TIPS

Doing my CVC duty

What have I let myself in for? • Rick can appear impulsive at times. Occasionally he sets himself targets that seem unrealistic – but when it comes to building vintage bikes, he just can’t help himself…

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