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

ON THE TRAIL OF TRIALS HEROES

Summit special • A year on from a devastating fire, Top Mountain Motorcycle Museum located in the Austrian Alps has been re-opened after being fully rebuilt

Glorious Guzzi guide • Internationally renowned journalist and CB contributor Alan Cathcart’s latest book covers the history and heyday of Guzzi’s factory race bikes

Thanks for the inspiration • Peter Wood was motivated by CB to get his first Japanese street scrambler... the rest followed naturally

Scrambling for answers

TT MYSTERY MAN

Good as gold? • Last month, we asked for your reactions to the new BSA Gold Star. Here’s what you said…

Springing back to life • Break out of hibernation and enjoy the first touch of a classic spring

On the SIXTH DAY • The International Six Day Trial was the Olympics of off-road competition. This 26-page special pays tribute to five of the bikes that rose to the challenge

Postcards from the edge • How tough guys pushed themselves and their machines to the limit in pursuit of national pride

1956 Royal Enfield Bullet 350 • The same Enfield Bullet Sammy competed on in the 1956 Garmisch Partenkirchen ISDT

1958 Ariel HT5 • Things had got more serious in terms of ISDT modifications by the time this machine was campaigned in Germany

1964 Greeves Challenger 246cc • Mary Driver was a previous bronze medal winner when she rode this in the ISDT

1970/71 Cheney Triumph T100C 504CC • Pure craftsmanship from frame wizard Eric Cheney and rider/engine builder Ken Heanes

1977 Jawa Type 654 • Specialist lightweight strokers like this were showing the way forward in the ISDT in the ’70s

Roy Bellett • The Chairman of the AJS & Matchless Owners Club tells us about the trials and tribulations of keeping members supplied with the right parts and doing it for the love of it

RAICAL RADIAL • When Marek Foltis embarked on a ‘low-budget project’, he wasn’t content with an easy oil-rag resto. He turned a Jawa 250 into this supercharged 10-cylinder radial two-stroke. And it all made perfect sense to him...

THE LAST MANX MAN • John Tickle was the man behind the last hurrah of the Manx Norton. Here’s how he engineered the last 500cc British single to fight the rising tide of Japanese two-strokes – and what it’s like to ride a 1971 Tickle Manx

AJS VINTAGE PORT • A 350cc AJS became the first overhead-valve bike to win the Isle of Man TT, 105 years ago. Here’s how... and we test the best production version of the Big Port

Byway or the highway • Will shows Rick the ropes for once, with a bracing run around dirt tracks

Squaring the circle

RICK’S TOP TIPS

It was all going so well... • The bike’s sitting pretty, but the project has entered restoration purgatory. It’s a place Rick’s keen to leave behind

Now I can get loaded • Mark’s winter days are brightened by a pair of donated panniers and a previous owner giving a glimpse of his...