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.

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High-flying sidecar gets a facelift • Seventy five year-old design, based on a Mosquito drop tank, gets a new lease of life

E10 PETROL THE TRUTH BEHIND THE MYTHS • It’ll rot your tank and carbs... it makes your classic run rough... the ethanol erodes your fuel lines... there are a lot of scare stories around Bioethanol E10 petrol. We cut through the bull

Celebrating a cycle of fun • As the National Autocycle and Cyclemotor Club celebrates its 40th anniversary, its chairman explains the enduring appeal of low power and high entertainment

On South African Sundays • Inspired by On Any Sunday, Allan Cole and his mates got into flat-track... with mixed results

Me and my mate’s GT • In the first instalment of a two-part story, CB reader Joe Brock describes how he rejuvenated his old school friend’s Suzuki GT185

The things you find on the road...

Dates to warm up November • Forget the bonfires and fireworks – these events will give you the juice to power you through winter...

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Hybrid working • A Norton Featherbed frame crossed with a Kawasaki engine imitating a BSA twin sounds like a bad genetic mix-up. But it works!

The SURVIVOR • Jim Redman won six world titles for Honda – more than any other rider before or since. We talk to one of the hardest riders of the ‘Golden Age’ – and one of the few still alive

AMERICAN CREAM • The Indian brand was first launched 120 years ago, and quickly rose to the top as an icon of the US motorcycle industry with its innovative racing and road models

Dark horse • In 1971, Mike Tomkinson used a stable as a workshop to transform the humble BSA B50 single into a giant-killing endurance racer

Mick Boddice • The sidecar supremo gives us the lowdown on building the first triples at BSA, enjoying the Continental Circus lifestyle, hiding race winnings under the carpet… and Percy Tait’s comb-over

MICK BODDICE • Life on three wheels

Noble NORVIN • A rare Norton Featherbed-framed Vincent which had been turned into a land speed racer has been restored to original road bike spec. ‘Gypsy’ John Newson of Oxney Motorcycles, who carried out the remedial work, recounts how this Viscount earned its peerage...

OFFBEAT OUTFIT • Gary Bryan used an engine designed for off-road sidecar racing to power his RGB Wasp – and turned the Brit twin into a road racing winner

Classic Workshop • Spannering supremo Rick Parkington welcomes you to our

I’ve finally had a good break • Rick’s properly on the mend – and he’s mended the Martinsyde, too. What great therapy!

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RICK’S TOP TIPS

RICK ANSWERS YOUR QUERIES

Will it suit me to a T? • Mention a 350cc Triumph and everyone thinks of the bathtub-backside 3TA or its sportier Tiger 90 derivative, but there was an earlier model born just after World War II. Meet Rick’s latest project – a 3T extracted from a greenhouse

It’s great up...