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

PLAYING WITH MATCHES

Burt Munro Challenge • An impressive bike museum and some wild racing events combine to deliver an antipodean event dedicated to ‘The God of Speed’

The first Anglo-American MATCH RACES • It all started half a decade ago as a promo exercise for BSA/Triumph – and grew into something much bigger

Chris Vincent 1935–2021 • CB pays tribute to the man they called ‘The King of Drift’ – a six-time British sidecar champion who also mixed it with the best international solo riders

Sympathy for the dishevelled • Jock McFadyen rediscovered the bike he’d ridden to see the Rolling Stones four decades earlier – then bought another decrepit Honda

HISTORICAL DUKE

Terrific trip to the TT • Looks like Chris Helme’s 1958 Isle of Man visit had it all – fun, glamour and a fireball!

YOUR LETTERS

FOUR IN A ’BED • Fitting a quart in a pint pot should hold no fears for John Mossey after creating his latest special brew, an Ariel Square Four engine in a Featherbed frame

COLLECTOR JOEL SAMICK • Joel Samick is a bit different to most collectors. Driven by a mantra that classics should be ridden and not hidden, he’s put all his classics to work in his touring holiday business

AT LUNCH WITH… Barry Hart • Remember the Silver Dream Racer? The movie was a bit naff, but the bike was astonishing – a genuine race-winning machine created in three months by this man

Gold Standard • BSA’s iconic Gold Star has earned itself a reputation as the Swiss Army knife of motorcycling – it can do it all

TIMELINE

Golden steers • Here’s proof of the enduring versatility of the Goldie. We asked members of the Gold Star Owners Club to showcase some of the many guises of BSA’s favourite big single. Here’s what they came up with…

GOING for GOLD • BSA’s Gold Star is an enduring and versatile competitor. We meet two owners who have campaigned their Goldies in trials for decades with different approaches – one keeps his bike original, while the other has been lavished with modifications

STAR TURN • What started as an order for a pair of girder forks for a BSA M20, became a full-on special build...

Moto Gurri CENTENARY • This year the Italian marque celebrates 100 years of uninterrupted motorcycle production. We celebrate with a look back at the company’s rich history and racing heritage

Single & twin-cylinder racers 1924-1957

Multi-cylinder exotics 1930–1957

Ready to rumble • Guzzi’s V8 was a mechanical masterpiece of the 1950s, with almost 80bhp from an engine only five kilos heavier than the rival British single. Here, we unravel three years of development that created a bike to strike fear into its rivals

Classic Workshop • Spannering supremo Rick Parkington welcomes you to our

Purpose-built for practicality • Old bikes not being able to cope with everyday use isn’t the issue– it’s more down to owners’ perceptions

How to… Get a bolt inside a girder spring...