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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Classic Bike

HISTORY OF THE VMCC

“The VMCC has to change” • New Vintage Motorcycle Club chairman Mario Costa-Sa aims to rebuild membership of the ailing institution. Here, he explains to CB exactly how he’ll do it

WHAT THE VMCC OFFERS

Vincents invade vintage village • Classics day at Derbyshire’s Crich Tramway brings out the best of British, and beyond...

Famous Enfield Bullet for Sammy’s museum • Peter Fletcher’s ex-works 1961 500cc Royal Enfield is the latest acquisition for the New Milton collection

Dave Nourish 1931-202 • The quietly-spoken son of a farmer who, over the course of five decades, stood proud as a go-to manufacturer for those seeking parallel-twin racing reliability

A lifelong bike man • Reader John Galbraith’s father was a dyed-in-the-wool motorcyclist

Me and my mate’s GT • Last month, CB reader Joe Brock described how he rebuilt his old school friend’s Suzuki GT185. But that wasn’t the end of the story, as he reveals in part two of his tale…

YOUR LETTERS

Perfect winter warmers • It might be the end of the year, but classic jumbles, trials and shows don’t stop for Christmas!

DIRTY LOOKS • Nick Simmons’ flat tracker for the road ticks all the right boxes. And you can buy one just like it...

The Summerbud story...

Eclectic eccentric • We’ve all heard of desmodromics, but what about the Butterworth swing valve? The man who created it was a unique character – an ingenious, prolific engineer whose invention ended up in a motorcycle… eventually

THE SWING VALVE SPECIAL • The saga of how one brave man persevered to build a motorcycle using the Butterworth single-cylinder swing valve engine originally designed as a development unit for a home-built Formula One car

AT LUNCH WITH... Bryan Wade • CB meets the man whose on-track exploits earned him a savage nickname and whose extra-curricular activities included home-made bombs and playing pool with McQueen

BRYAN WADE • A walk on the wild side

PAUL SMART 1943 – 2021 • Only very special people get to have motorcycles named after them – people like this legend

YOU COULDN’T WISH FOR MOOR • With the pandemic threatening his annual trip to Italy for the Motogiro, Russell Benney created a similar long-distance road trip for tiddlers in the UK – the Three Moors Run. This year saw it double in size...

TIDDLERS ON TOUR • THE RIDERS AND THEIR BIKES

WELL SEASONED • A new book about Jimmie Guthrie charts the life and tragic death of the road racing legend. This excerpt focuses on 1934, the year when he became Norton’s number one rider – at the ripe old age of 37

Classic Workshop • Spannering supremo Rick Parkington welcomes you to our

Bringing the past into focus • Rick gets out and about, shines a light on motorcycling history and mourns the passing of a dear friend

Down to brass tacks • As restoring the 3T back to showroom condition would be...