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

DAYTONA: THE NAME OF THE GAME

Having it at Hawkstone • With sporting events still under the Covid cosh, it was good to see this event go ahead

Japanese joy • The latest in Sammy’s summer series of ride-in events proved to be one of the most popular yet

Anything but average • Ivan Rhodes’ new book combines the history of the idiosyncratic Velocette marque with his own life and several stories from Velo contributors

Will they or won’t they? • With the situation changing almost daily, here’s our best guess at what events will and won’t happen…

Cop out? not me! • Allan Cole’s antipodean purchase turned out to be more arresting than he first realised

FROM THE BARN TO THE PITS

SoCal distancing • CB subscriber Burl Estes recounts his motorcycling life in southern California

IT MADE ITS NAME AT DAYTONA • Buddy Elmore’s victory in the USA’s most prestigious race led to Triumph renaming its 500cc model to celebrate. We check out the history and the bike…

THE NUMBERS GAME: BUYING AND VALIDATING BUDDY’S BIKE

DAVID BOARER • A man with a passion for Italian bikes that has compelled him to amass shedloads of the little beauties

GOING… GOING… …BUT NOT QUITE GONE • This unique Quattro 125cc four-cylinder racer failed to sell at a recent auction, but it’s confidently predicted that a private deal will soon confirm it as the most expensive Ducati ever sold. We look into its chequered history

Scott hotshot • For anything Scott-related, Roger Moss is your man – he makes parts, builds engines and even developed his own amazing racer

FROM A RIGHT OLD STATE TO THIS • How Robin Ludwell took a dog-eared US import T160 and returned it to its former glory

RACING HEROES OF 1970 • How a decade of radical change was ushered in by a season of superb sporting action

World champion by 0.03 seconds! • Fifty years ago Brit, Rod Gould would clinch the 250cc World Championship after a photo-finish decided his season-longscrap with Kel Carruthers. Here’s how the races unfolded…

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

The Cool Ruler • Charismatic Giacomo Agostini and MV Agusta exerted total domination over 350/500 GPs

Japan gets good in the mud • The first-ever motocross world title for a Japanese company came after Belgian team-mates Joel Robert and Sylvain Geboers fought out one of the tightest 250cc class seasons on record

Racing round-up • A typical action-packed sporting season gave the 1970s a good kick off. Here are some of the highlights…

Classic Workshop • Spannering supremo Rick Parkington welcomes you to our Classic Workshop

Not as simple as you think • Rick discovers that Triumph parts aren’t quite as interchangeable as he’s always presumed

How to… Drilling accurate holes • I needed to copy the hole positions in an engine plate - but...